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A $4-Million Headache: Governor's Big Book Advance Stirs Furor

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 4/5/21

Less than a week after a poll indicated that Governor Cuomo had stemmed the bleeding as he fought off calls for his resignation over both allegations by past and present female aides of sexual harassment and evidence that his administration concealed politically damaging nursing-home death data, his secretiveness punched him in the nose again.

The New York Times reported March 31 that Mr. Cuomo's book advance for a memoir detailing his handling of the coronavirus crisis in New York had exceeded $4 million, and that he had begun working on the book weeks sooner than he originally indicated.

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