{"id":438253,"date":"2021-04-21T10:35:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T14:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=438253"},"modified":"2021-04-21T10:35:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T14:35:58","slug":"andrew-cuomo-under-investigation-again-this-time-for-allegedly-using-state-resources-for-his-book-about-pandemic-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/andrew-cuomo-under-investigation-again-this-time-for-allegedly-using-state-resources-for-his-book-about-pandemic-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Cuomo Under Investigation AGAIN, This Time For Allegedly Using State Resources For His Book About Pandemic \u2018Leadership\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fandrew-cuomo-under-investigation-again-this-time-for-allegedly-using-state-resources-for-his-book-about-pandemic-leadership%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=438253&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3067.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) is facing yet another investigation, this time over his alleged use of state resources to write his pandemic memoir, \u201cAmerican Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic,\u201d which portrayed him as a hero despite New York seeing more deaths than all but one other state (California).<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/19\/nyregion\/andrew-cuomo-book-investigation.html\">reported<\/a> Monday that the New York State attorney general has opened an investigation into Cuomo\u2019s alleged use of state resources to write and promote the book, following allegations from government staffers that they were told to work on the book. Cuomo has insisted that the staffers \u201cvolunteered\u201d for the project, with senior adviser Richard Azzopardi telling the Times earlier this month that the staffers \u201cvolunteered on this project\u201d using their free time. Forget the power dynamics involved in whether or not the staffers truly could volunteer.<\/p>\n<p>New York State Attorney General Letitia James opened the latest investigation in Cuomo, after receiving a referral letter from State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli. Cuomo accused James and DiNapoli, both Democrats, of trying to sabotage him in order to boost their own political futures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have officially jumped the shark \u2014 the idea there was criminality involved here is patently absurd on its face and is just the furthering of a political pile-on,\u201d Azzopardi told the Times this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is Albany politics at its worst,\u201d Azzopardi continued. \u201cBoth the comptroller and the attorney general have spoken to people about running for governor, and it is unethical to wield criminal referral authority to further political self-interest\u200e.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/andrew-cuomo-was-offered-more-than-4-million-for-pandemic-leadership-book-report-says\">reported<\/a>, Cuomo\u2019s aides worked to secure a $4 million advance to write the book while also pressuring the state Health Department to alter a report showing just how poorly Cuomo handled the coronavirus pandemic in nursing homes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn impending Health Department report threatened to disclose a far higher number of\u00a0nursing home\u00a0deaths related to the coronavirus than the Cuomo administration had previously made public. Ms. [Melissa] DeRosa and other top aides\u00a0expressed concern\u00a0about the higher death toll, and, after their intervention, the number \u2014 which had appeared in the second sentence of the report \u2014 was removed from the final version,\u201d the Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/31\/nyregion\/cuomo-book-nursing-homes.html\">reported<\/a> earlier this month. \u201cThe revisions occurred as the governor was on the brink of a huge payoff: a book deal that ended with a high offer of more than $4 million, according to people with knowledge of the book\u2019s bidding process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another of Cuomo\u2019s top aides, Stephanie Benton, was directed to ask assistants to print portions of the manuscript\u2019s draft and bring them to the governor\u2019s mansion. On one occasion, the request came on the same day that DeRosa gathered other top advisers to discuss the Health Department draft report that could crush the governor\u2019s image.<\/p>\n<p>One anonymous staffer, who feared retaliation for speaking out, told the Times she and others were asked to help type the book or transfer Cuomo\u2019s notes, which he sometimes composed by dictating into his cellphone.<\/p>\n<p>Staffers said their work wasn\u2019t voluntary, The Daily Wire\u2019s Ian Haworth <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/report-andrew-cuomo-faces-accusations-that-he-broke-the-law-by-requiring-staffers-to-work-on-his-covid-19-book\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is the fourth major investigation into Cuomo\u2019s administration. He faces a federal inquiry into his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, a state investigation into numerous sexual assault allegations against the governor, and a State Assembly inquiry into the sexual assault allegations.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. 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