A New York ethics commission can't yet seize the millions of dollars former Gov. Andrew Cuomo earned from his book, the state attorney general says.
New York’s ethics commission has more work to do if it wants to seize the millions of dollars former Gov. Andrew Cuomo earned writing a book about the COVID-19 pandemic, the state attorney general’s office said in a letter Thursday.
Any referral to the attorney general’s office “should also include additional clarifications,” the letter said, including “a record of the administrative process, and the statutory authority for the decision, the amount of the imposed fines and penalties, and a determination concerning the appropriate amount of disgorgement attributable to the violation of law.”
Cuomo’s lawyer, Jim McGuire, who had called the commission’s attempt to seize the book profits illegal, said the letter was another sign that JCOPE was acting outside the law.
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