18 May 2021: More Reactions to Cuomo's Book Deal

Cuomo’s $5M book deal — Special interests flood mayor’s race — Mask mandate to end for vaccinated New Yorkers

This report summarizes the revelation of Governor Cuomo's $5.12 million deal to write his pandemic "leadership" book and some of the more prominent reactions to it.

The reaction to the eye-popping sum has been furious. State Conservative Party chairman Gerard Kassar called the payments “blood money” and a “sickening abuse of power” by a governor who used his job to get “stinking rich.” “How Cuomo can keep even a dime of the money is beyond us,” he said Monday evening. Assemblymember Ron Kim is calling for any member of the administration who participated in falsifying pandemic death data to be “held criminally responsible for defrauding the public.”

NY Assembly Member Kim's tweeted his full statement on 17 May 2021.

Here’s my statement on Cuomo’s $5.12 million book deal during the pandemic: pic.twitter.com/NFGM1VYdgY

— Ron T. Kim (@rontkim) May 17, 2021

Many of Governor Cuomo's scandalous actions required the active involvement of many state government officials. It may take the equivalent of several federal RICO investigations to fully address the scope and scale of the problem.