Andrew Cuomo Ordered By Ethics Committee To Hand Over 5M In Book Profits To Letitia James
In an 11-2 vote, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) passed a resolution requiring Cuomo to repay all of the sales profits he earned from his 2020 memoir, American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic. The commission has argued that Cuomo violated the terms of his approval to write the book by using state resources, including the help of some of his former staffers. Because of this, the commission said Tuesday that Cuomo isn’t “legally entitled to retain compensation,” and must surrender his profits to the state within the next month....