Now We Know How Much Cuomo Was Paid for 'Leadership' Book and How He Might Have Broken State Law Writing It
By Mike Miller | Apr 01, 2021 4:30 PM ET




Looking back over the last several months, it’s “almost” as if embattled New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has tried — really hard — to get himself into as much trouble, bring as much shame to his family, and shroud his governorship with as much scandal as possible.


From the original nursing home scandal to the larger bogus COVID death count and alleged subsequent cover-up scandals, to the growing list of young females — which now stands at nine —who have come forward with allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior, randy Andy appears to have been on quite a reckless tear for a long while.

Then, almost as if to add insult to injury of those who lost loved ones to COVID as a direct result of Cuomo directives, the unabashed narcissist wrote his now-infamous book — American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 — in which he had the ball gall to brag about the leadership “lesson’ he learned from the pandemic.

Unfortunately, of course, Andy failed to learn any of those lessons in time to save the more than 15,000 residents of New York nursing homes. As to be expected, none of them were available for comment.

Now, as reported by the New York Post on Wednesday, new details have emerged about Cuomo’s “pandemic memoir” including how much money he was promised — and worse.

According to a report obtained by the Post, Cuomo was offered more than four million dollars to write the now-ironic book — which, as noted by the Post, the publisher —Crown Publishing — has since “paused promoting” because of a federal investigation into the Cuomo administration’s handling of COVID in the nursing homes.

Here’s where it gets interesting.

According to the report, Cuomo enlisted staffers to help with the book — after having been specifically told not to. As the New York Times reported on Wednesday, top aides Melissa DeRosa and Stephanie Benton, as well as junior staffers, assisted the governor with drafts of “Leadership Lessons” which was published in mid-October.

DeRosa, for example, reportedly attended video meetings with publishers and helped Cuomo edit early drafts of the book. But early last summer, as noted by the Post, DeRosa and other top aides were also worried about an impending Health Department report about the COVID toll on nursing homes.

Here’s more background, via the Post:

Government staffers were reportedly helping with the manuscript by late June and early July — a potential violation of state laws that prohibit the use of public resources for personal gain.

A state ethics agency gave Cuomo permission last July to write it — but specifically told him not to to use state “personnel” or property “for activities associated with the book,” The Buffalo News reported.

That revelation came after the Times report, which detailed how Benton, for instance, twice asked assistants to print parts of the draft and deliver them to Cuomo at the Executive Mansion in Albany.

One of the requests, on July 5, involved a 224-page draft with edits from DeRosa, the report said.

The draft that DeRosa worked on didn’t include any mention of the Health Department report or its findings, but did have a searing indictment of Mayor Bill de Blasio, according to the Times.

Cuomo has declined to reveal how much he was paid for the book, noted the Post, saying in August, “You’ll see it on my financial disclosure” — the deadline for which is May 15. Ah, what tangled webs we sometimes weave. Especially when our name is Andrew Cuomo.

According to the Times, senior Cuomo advisor Rich Azzopardi of course denied any connection between the book and the Health Department report. Azzopardi also said DeRosa and Benton had “volunteered on this project,” something he added was “permissible and consistent with ethical requirements” of the state. I bet.

“Every effort was made to ensure that no state resources were used in connection with this project,” Azzopardi said. Uh-huh. Because if there’s one thing that’s super important to Andrew Cuomo and his closest aide, it’s protecting at all costs the besmirchment of the governorship of New York.

“To the extent [that] an aide printed out a document,” Azzopardi said, “it appears incidental.”

 

I don't know who is really behind all this or why. All I know is if I lived in New York I would be really happy with my politicians.

Manhattan DA Will No Longer Prosecute Prostitution

Manhattan prosecutors will stop prosecuting prostitution and unlicensed massages, District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. announced Wednesday. Vance Jr. has asked a judge to dismiss more than 900 open prostitution cases and another 5,000 that involve charges for loitering for the purposes of prostitution, his statement says. Many of these cases have been pending since the late 1970s, when New York wanted to erase its reputation as a crime capital. “Criminally prosecuting prostitution does not make us safer, and too often, achieves the opposite result by further marginalizing vulnerable New Yorkers,” Vance Jr. said. Crimes related to sex trafficking and patronizing sex workers will still be prosecuted, according to The New York Times. Manhattan follows Baltimore and Philadelphia in deciding not to prosecute sex workers.

“The communities hit hardest by the continued criminalization of sex work and human trafficking are overwhelmingly LGBTQ, they are people of color, and they are undocumented immigrants,” said New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray. “Sex work is a means of survival for many in these marginalized groups.”

Read it at The New York Times

https://www.thedailybeast.com/manhattan-da-will-no-longer-prosecute-prostitution?ref=home

 

No moral compass.
No credibility.
And the icing is, he calls America a "shithole country".

 

Seriously... look at this piece of shit, lying Libfuck - still promoting Cuomo. I guess none of his senior relatives died because of Cuomo sicking COVID positive patients on our most vulnerable - those in nursing homes.

They don't come any more heartless than that, do they, @stumbler ?

Keep on defending your hero - we already know the lying shit heap you come from.

 

Cuomo will get away with it all, getting quiet, all the sex abuse allegations will be swept aside by democrats because he's a democrat, ya think democrats in NY will conduct an honest investigation, ON ONE OF THEIR OWN, Bahahahahaha!

Then it will all be turned into a republican scheme of some sort and King Cuomo will reign until people get tired of a President kamal toe and give the thrown to Randy Andy...its good to be the king!

 

But cuomo would have a tough time running now. The deplorables would bring it all up to remind voters.

 

It looks like Cuomo is going for the Trump/Gaetz defense. Just try to deny everything. But that might work with conservative/Republicans who have no morals, ethics, and standards but I doubt Cuomo is going to survive.

Cuomo denies sexual harassment allegations: 'I didn't do anything wrong'

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-...assment-allegations-i-didnt-do-anything-wrong

 

Speaking of morals, ethics and standards, one word;
Kavanaugh.
Whatever it took, eh?

 

Andrew Cuomo to Rake In Whopping $5.1 Million for Pandemic Memoir
CUOMO CASH

Justin Rohrlich
Published May. 17, 2021 3:39PM ET

Mike Segar/Reuters
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will earn some $5.1 million in total proceeds from his book, American Crisis: Leadership Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic, according to financial information obtained prior to its public release by The New York Times. The figure includes the $3.12 million Cuomo earned in 2020 from the memoir, plus an additional $2 million to be paid out over the next two years. Cuomo spokesman Richard Azzopardi said in a statement that Cuomo netted $1,537,508 from the book last year, and donated a third of it to the United Way of New York State. The remainder went into a trust to be split equally between Cuomo’s three daughters, Azzopardi stated. The book has sold only 50,000 copies to date—not enough for Crown, its publisher, to recoup its costs, reported the Times. Cuomo has come under fire for allegedly using state resources to work on the book, an accusation he has strongly denied.

In March, Crown called off its planned promotion for the book, as well as any future printing of a paperback edition, after the Cuomo administration was accused of modifying a NYS Health Department report to conceal the actual number of COVID-related deaths that had occurred in New York nursing homes.

Read it at New York Times

https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-y...million-for-covid-19-pandemic-memoir?ref=home

 

This would be a good time to once again ask, is it such a bad thing to prohibit our public servants, both Federal and State from profiting from their office?
What would be so bad about a law that says one cannot profit from book sales, public speaking engagements, memoirs, consultation fees, etc. that are a direct result of their time in office?

 

In order to calculate the level of fake outrage from treasonous conservative/Republicans its always good to compare and contrast. Because we sure don't see any treasonous conservative/Republican outrage when its a Republican governor.

GOP governor Charlie Baker destroyed by Boston Globe in new exposé of veterans’ home COVID-19 scandal

Ray Hartmann
May 21, 2021



Charlie Baker on Flickr.
The Republican governor of Massachusetts might not be facing a COVID-19 scandal to match the one plaguing the Democratic governor of New York, but a Boston Globe expose today reveals he has plenty to answer for.

Governor Charlie Baker was the subject of a scorching analysis headlined:

"FAILURE OF COMMAND: Gov. Baker and a top deputy played key roles in events leading up to the COVID-19 tragedy at the Holyoke Soldiers' Home, but publicly faulted others. A Globe investigation examines what left it all but leaderless when the virus stormed in."

Even if Baker isn't as besieged as New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, the Globe analysis was brutal. It focused on a COVID-19 outbreak that killed 76 veterans last spring at the veterans' healthcare facility—"one of the highest death tolls of any senior-care center in the country."

Here's a taste of how the Globe recounted Baker's less-than-candid response to the crisis as it unfolded early in the pandemic.

"The report by Boston attorney Mark Pearlstein was "nothing short of gut wrenching," Baker said. The chaos and carnage at the Soldiers' Home was "truly horrific and tragic." There had been inexcusable failures of leadership by superintendent Bennett Walsh and of oversight by Secretary of Veterans' Services Francisco Ureña, Baker said. So they both had to go.

At that press conference, Baker and Health and Human Services Secretary Marylou Sudders took no personal responsibility for the massive loss of life at a facility they oversaw. Instead, they laid blame solely on officials below them, particularly Walsh and Ureña, in what a Boston Globe Spotlight Team investigation has found was an often misleading narrative marked by omissions and false assertions.

"The governor distanced himself from the decision to hire superintendent Walsh, who now faces charges of criminal neglect during the pandemic. Baker said Walsh had been appointed by the Soldiers' Home board of trustees, which "really wanted Bennett Walsh to have that job. And I can tell you that the first time I ever met him or talked to him was when we swore him in."


"That wasn't true. Baker interviewed Walsh before naming him superintendent in 2016, despite Walsh's lack of health care management experience, an administration spokesperson recently confirmed.

"Baker also indicated that he and Sudders knew little about how badly Walsh was "in over his head," as one Veterans' Services official described his tenure to Pearlstein. When a reporter asked if knowledge of Walsh's shortcomings ever "got to the level of Secretary Sudders or your office," Baker replied, "I think the report kind of speaks for itself.

"So the answer is no? "Yeah."

"That wasn't true either…"

You can read the full Boston Globe report here.

https://www.rawstory.com/charlie-backer-covid-scandal/

 

So the Biden justice department is quietly shoring up Democratic governors, including Cuomo, by shelving prosecution of civil rights investigations, following nursing home Covid-19 deaths.

https://www.yahoo.com/now/cuomo-impeachment-investigation-head-warns-213600664.html

 

No surprise here.
Biden/harris have to "win" the covid battle to give any hope for 2022.

 

Democrat cover ups are commonplace and right out in the open, they dont even try to hid it any longer