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The state ethics commission found that Andrew Cuomo violated ethics laws by using state resources to produce his memoir, and ordered him to repay $5.1 million in compensation.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks during a press conference at his Midtown Manhattan office. Drew Angerer is the photographer.
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The New York Joint Commission on Public Ethics approved a resolution stating that Cuomo does not have the legal authority to receive compensation for his book.
The ethics committee voted last month to remove their prior authorization for Cuomo to receive outside compensation for the book after concluding he had violated pledges to not use state resources on the book.
The commission's actions are unconstitutional, exceed its own authority and appear to be driven by political interests rather than the facts and the law, according to Cuomo's attorney.
The commission said that Cuomo has 30 days to give the money to New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Crown, an imprint of Penguin Random House, which published Cuomo's memoir last year, did not respond to a request for comment from Forbes.
The Assembly Judiciary Committee in New York released an impeachment report last month that found Cuomo had state officials working to help him with his memoir. The report said that the book duties were not voluntary and that staffers worked on the book on their own accord. Cuomo was approached about the book just weeks into the epidemic, and wrote about 70,000 words by July, as hundreds of thousands of New York State residents died of Covid-19. There was evidence of Cuomo sexually harassing 12 women, including seven members of his staff, and that the governor's office was not fully transparent with the true number of New Yorkers who died in nursing homes during the state's Pandemic. Cuomo resigned from office in August after denying the sexual harassment allegations. The FBI and the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney's Office are investigating Cuomo's book deal, according to the New York Post.
Cuomo has already spent some of the book's proceeds, so the recollection of the money could face potential difficulties. Cuomo put $1 million into a trust fund for his daughters, according to the New York Times.
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Chris Cuomo, Andrew's brother and former CNN host, lost his book deal after he was fired by CNN. CNN initially suspended the news anchor after the New York Attorney General's Office released documents that showed he played a deeper role in helping his brother through sexual harassment allegations from multiple women, including attempting to look into other news outlets' reporting, than the network had previously known. Chris Cuomo was fired by CNN after an outside law firm found additional information.
The New York Times reported that Cuomo was ordered to repay $5.1 million in book earnings.
Cuomo's publisher stopped promoting the book because of the nursing home death controversy.
Cuomo will make over $5 million from his controversial memoir.
