Disgraced not-Governor Andrew Cuomo has just gotten more bad news as he’s been ordered to return the $5.1 million advance he got for his book on “COVID leadership” that sold fewer than 50,000 copies.
New York state’s Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) voted 12-1 demanding the Democrat to give back the $5.1 million from the release of his memoir “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic,” which was widely panned as an early victory lap of his response to the virus it was still killing thousands of Americans.
Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi issued a fiery statement defending his former boss. “This is political hypocrisy and duplicity at its worst,” Azzopardi wrote. “Governor Cuomo received a JCOPE opinion and advice of counsel stating that government resources could not be used — and they weren’t — and any staffer who assisted in this project did so on their own time, which was reflected on their timesheets.”
New York Attorney General Letitia James is also investigating Cuomo’s book deal, along with the FBI, and the Brooklyn US Attorney’s Office.
Source: https://bongino.com/andrew-cuomo-ordered-to-repay-5-million-from-book-deal/
New York state’s Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) voted 12-1 demanding the Democrat to give back the $5.1 million from the release of his memoir “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic,” which was widely panned as an early victory lap of his response to the virus it was still killing thousands of Americans.
Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi issued a fiery statement defending his former boss. “This is political hypocrisy and duplicity at its worst,” Azzopardi wrote. “Governor Cuomo received a JCOPE opinion and advice of counsel stating that government resources could not be used — and they weren’t — and any staffer who assisted in this project did so on their own time, which was reflected on their timesheets.”
New York Attorney General Letitia James is also investigating Cuomo’s book deal, along with the FBI, and the Brooklyn US Attorney’s Office.
Source: https://bongino.com/andrew-cuomo-ordered-to-repay-5-million-from-book-deal/
