IN THE NEWS: CUOMO ORDERED TO RETURN $5.1 MILLION PANDEMIC BOOK PROFITS

The extraordinary resolution was approved by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics Tuesday in a 12 to 1 vote.

New York’s top ethics panel on Tuesday ordered disgraced ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo to pay the state $5.1 million in book profits he made on the backs of taxpayers amid the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The extraordinary resolution was approved by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics in a 12-1 vote — a month after the ethics agency voted to revoke its prior approval allowing Cuomo to earn outside income from his book “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic”....MORE AT https://nypost.com/2021/12/14/andrew-cuomo-ordered-to-return-pandemic-book-profits-to-state/

UPDATED 12/17: LETITIA JAMES SAYS NO  https://nypost.com/2021/12/16/andrew-cuomo-order-to-return-book-profits-shot-down-as-illegal-attorney-general-letitia-james/