{"id":65635,"date":"2021-05-17T18:53:34","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T22:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=65635"},"modified":"2021-05-17T18:53:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T22:53:34","slug":"not-only-was-killer-cuomo-directly-responsible-for-new-yorks-geriatric-genocide-he-got-paid-over-5mil-to-wrote-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=65635","title":{"rendered":"Not only was “Killer Cuomo” directly responsible for New York’s geriatric genocide, he got paid over $5MIL to wrote about it!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gov. Cuomo got $5.1M for COVID book despite nursing home deaths<\/strong><\/h1>\n

By Bernadette Hogan, Carl Campanile and Bruce Golding
\nNew York Post<\/p>\n

Gov. Andrew Cuomo \u2014 whose controversial directive for nursing homes to accept COVID-19 patients has been tied to as many as 1,000-plus deaths \u2014 sold the rights to his best-selling pandemic memoir for $5.12 million, according to tax returns he made public on Monday.<\/p>\n

The amount\u00a0exceeds the $4 million-plus figure<\/a>\u00a0that was reportedly the top offer for Cuomo\u2019s \u201cAmerican Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic,\u201d which was published in mid-October as the public health crisis still raged in New York and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Cuomo\u2019s contract \u2014 which he got despite his administration being accused of sending COVID-positive patients back into nursing homes, potentially spreading the deadly virus among the vulnerable elderly there \u2014 paid him $3.12 million last year and he was left with a little more than $3 million after editing expenses, according to his tax returns.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAmerican Crisis: Leadership Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic\u201d by Andrew Cuomo<\/figcaption>
Crown via AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Tracey Alvino, whose dad, Daniel, was infected with COVID-19 in a Long Island nursing home and later died, called Cuomo\u2019s literary earnings \u201cblood money.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThese resources could have been used to fight the pandemic instead of giving him a payday,\u201d Alvino said.<\/p>\n

Cuomo is under investigation for his handling of the nursing homes during the pandemic and efforts by his administration to cover up total COVID deaths among the elderly patients, which hover at nearly 14,000.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s also set to receive another $2 million this year and next, the returns show.<\/p>\n

Cuomo donated $500,000 to the United Way, representing about 10 percent of his total gross proceeds.<\/p>\n

State Attorney General Letitia James \u2014 in addition to the investigation probing multiple allegations of sexual harassment by current and former aides to the governor \u2014 is separately\u00a0investigating claims that Cuomo used staff<\/a>\u00a0and state resources to help write the book last summer.<\/p>\n

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo disclosed Monday, May 17, 2021 that he was paid a $3.1 million advance to write his COVID-19 leadership book last year and under his publishing contract will make another $2 million on the memoir over the next two years.AP Photo\/Mary Altaffer, Pool<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The matter is also under investigation by the state Assembly Judiciary Committee as part of the ongoing impeachment probe.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince the publisher was paying him $5 million, he could have bought a computer and printer and hired some staff instead of glomming state resources,\u201d said Bill Hammond of the Empire Center for Public Policy, who has held the Cuomo administration\u2019s feet to the fire over its handling of the nursing homes during the pandemic.<\/p>\n

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