NY Ethics Panel Orders Ex-Governor Andrew Cuomo to Repay Profits From $5.1 Million Book Deal

Last year, Crown, an imprint of Penguin Random House, beat out several competitors to ink a $5.1 million deal with then-New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who, at the time, was revered for navigating the COVID hotspot state through the pandemic. Now resigned from office, Cuomo has been brought up on ethics charges related to his pandemic-era memoir.