News of Andrew Cuomo's $5 Million Book Payment Prompts Renewed Calls for Resignation
New York state lawmakers kicked up the latest crescendo of calls for Governor Andrew Cuomo's resignation Monday amid reports he was paid $5.12 million for American Crisis: Leadership Lessons From the Pandemic, a book he wrote during the COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in the deaths of more than 52,000 people across the state.
State assemblymembers from both parties rebooted calls for Cuomo to resign as investigators continue to probe numerous sexual misconduct allegations as well as records showing his office deliberately falsified pandemic death numbers last year. News reports Monday revealed Cuomo's financial disclosure forms which contained the proceeds from his American Crisis book published earlier this year. Cuomo's federally adjusted gross income of $3,593,343, combined with his $5 million book deal reignited his critics' calls for him to step down over the dual scandals.
"Today's news is further confirmation of the insidious and ugly truth that Andrew Cuomo took millions of dollars from Crown Publishing to write a book in the middle of the pandemic, while families buried their loved ones," wrote Assemblymember Ron Kim, who publicly acknowledged losing an uncle to COVID-19 last year in the wake of controversial Cuomo executive orders.
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Cuomo to receive $5.1 million for his book on the coronavirus pandemic
The book, “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic,” was released in October. According to Rich Azzopardi, Cuomo’s director of communications and senior adviser, the book contract “calls for payment of $3,120,000 in the last taxable year and an additional $2 million over the following 2 years.” Details of the contract emerged Monday as Cuomo released his 2020 tax filings.
According to Azzopardi, Cuomo received $1,537,508 from the $3,120,000 after expenses and taxes. Of that amount, Cuomo donated one-third to the United Way of New York State for “statewide covid relief and vaccination effort,” Azzopardi said. The remainder will go into a trust for Cuomo’s three daughters.
In a letter to Cuomo dated Monday, United Way expressed “our sincere gratitude to you for such an extraordinary and generous contribution of $500,000.” The timing of Cuomo’s donation was not immediately clear.
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