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2021-04-05 Government Corruption

Cuomo's $4M book deal is looking like yet another crime

[NYPOST] Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo’s book deal now looks like sufficient reason to impeach him, all by itself.It’s now clear that top aides Melissa DeRosa and Stephanie Benton plus other staff assisted Cuomo with drafts of "American Crisis" despite an ethics ruling that cleared the deal only if he didn’t use state resources to write it. That makes it a plain violation of state law.

The book deal reportedly netted the gov a cool $4 million, even though his 2014 memoir, "All Things Possible," sold fewer than 4,000 hardcover copies.

Cuomo flak catcher Rich Azzopardi claims that staffers acted voluntarily in helping the gov. Yet no one thinks that anyone in Cuomo World dares to tell the boss "no."

Plus, DeRosa was helping to edit early drafts and attending video meetings with publishers even as she and other top aides were working to censor the then-pending Health Department report about the virus’ toll on nursing homes by deleting the full corpse count. In other words, they were using their official power to protect not just the gov’s image, but his $4 million payment for a project they were intimately involved in.

As Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio

...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him...
put it, the gov’s team "covered up the truth about the nursing home scandal . . . to benefit himself financially and politically."

Plus, the nonpartisan Citizens for Responsibility in Washington, a government-ethics watchdog group, has filed a complaint with the state Board of Elections suggesting that campaign funds also went to promoting the book that brought Cuomo significant personal income, another legal no-no.

A full investigation is clearly in order, though at this point the Assembly’s Judiciary Committee already has multiple impeachment-worthy Cuomo activities on its plate. It shouldn’t need to investigate all of them before it reports on any of them.

Clear proof of a single crime should be enough to move rapidly to get Cuomo out of office, before he can again betray the people of New York for his own selfish ends.

Posted by Fred 2021-04-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Book deals are typically a way to launder money around election laws. Typically politician comes out with a book. Political party buys up a shit ton to make it a best seller, make sure the politician gets well paid, and publisher isn't left hanging. Then the Political party gives them away to donors or destroys them.

If Cuomo sold 4,000 I suspect that means he didn't know how it works and get things setup ahead of time.

Posted by rjschwarz 2021-04-05 10:30|| 2021-04-05 10:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Cuomo is not going to write a tell-all book putting himself in legal jeopardy. It's going to be a white-wash account of things and it will try to make him look like a selfless saint.

Posted by JohnQC 2021-04-05 15:12|| 2021-04-05 15:12|| Front Page Top

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