Andrew Cuomo Has to Return $5 Million Book Payment, New York Ethics Panel Says
Demonstrators hold an altered version of Cuomo’s book cover outside of his office during protest in New York on March 1.
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New York state’s ethics commission voted Tuesday to require former Governor Andrew Cuomo to repay the more than $5 million in compensation he received for a book he wrote in 2020 on his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Joint Commission on Public Ethics voted 11-2 on a resolution requiring Cuomo to repay, within 30 days, all the compensation he earned from sales of his 2020 book, “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic.”