New York Orders Cuomo To Return 'Blood Money' Book Profits

Ex-gov must return $5.1 million from COVID book deal, ethics panel 
rules

New York's Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) ordered 
disgraced former governor Andrew Cuomo (D.) to return $5.1 million 
he made in profits from his book about the pandemic.


JCOPE may not have the authority to issue the order, however, the 
New York Post reported Tuesday.

The commission "has exactly zero authority to issue an order such as 
this," former state ethics enforcer David Grandeau told the Post. 
"All [the law] says is JCOPE has the right to issue opinions."

Cuomo's attorney agreed, telling the Post, "Should they seek to 
enforce this action, we'll see them in court."

Cuomo resigned on Aug. 24 after state attorney general Letitia James 
(D.) found that the then-governor sexually harassed at least 11 
women. Cuomo also ordered New York nursing homes to admit 
coronavirus-positive patients and then hid the number of nursing-
home deaths, according to an independent report released last month.

More than 15,000 people died of COVID-19 complications in the 
state's nursing homes, the New York Times found in August.

Tracey Alvino, whose father died of COVID-19 in a New York nursing 
home, told the Post that American Crisis "was a blood money book of 
lies written off the graves of 15,000 people."

"Score one for the team of morals and ethics and everything that is 
just and right," she said about the commission's decision.


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blood-money-book-profits/