Handy Andy Cuomo must return money received for pandemic book

Former Democratic governor Andrew "Handy Andy" Cuomo killed thousands of elderly nursing home bound New Yorkers when he mandated that nursing homes must accept Covid patients released from hospitals. Next he wrote a book about the wonderful job he did handling the pandemic and the left just ate it up with the help of his brother, Chris "Fredo" Cuomo, who had worked for CNN at the time and has since been fired for helping his brother, but not fired for helping himself to female butt cheeks without permission from their owners. [Not surprisingly, that's also how "Handy Andy" got his sobriquet from this writer.]

On Tuesday, the former governor has been ordered by New York's ethics commission [yes, they actually have one] to forgo millions of dollars paid to him by a publisher to write a book about his response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Cuomo's lawyer called the committee's action unconstitutional a vowed to fight for his cut.

Cuomo was told to turn over proceeds earned from his self-congratulatory book "American Crisis' Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic"  within 30 days under a resolution approved by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics. The order came a month after they voted to rescind the ethics approval they had given the disgraced governor before he signed the book deal amounting to $5.1 million.

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The book, or should we call it a novel, was published in October 2020 before Cuomo was forced to resign after 11 allegations of sexual harassment bubbled up to the surface.

Cuomo has confessed that state employees helped him write his book, including editing the manuscript. He claims they volunteered but junior and senior staff members told investigators they were asked to work on the book during their work hours, tasks that included transcribing dictations, printing and delivering documents, dealing with agents and publishers and attending meetings.

Now that the former governor is out of work, he will need all that money to pay his legal expenses and for the purchase of giant Q-Tips for "that thing that sits on his beautiful face."

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