At a Special Meeting Friday, Commissioners of the New York Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE), may adopt a New Strategy in their attempt to force, ex-Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, to repay $5.1 million in Book Royalties.
Some of the Ethics Panel's Commissioners are mulling a Plan, that would cut State Attorney General Letitia James (D), out of the Process of seeking the $5.1 million Repayment.
In December 2021, James' Office expressed concern that the Commissioners could Not seek Cuomo's ‘disgorgement’ of the Royalties he earned in 2020, without a Full Investigation into whether he Misused State Resources to produce ‘American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic’, an Inquiry that could last months or years.
Under the New Plan being considered, JCOPE would issue an Order demanding that the former Governor quickly Repay the Money to the Book Publisher, Penguin Random House.
And instead of James’ Office enforcing the Order and deciding how to handle the sum, as JCOPE prescribed in an original Dec. 14, 2021 Motion, the Commission would potentially hire its own Counsel to Enforce the Repayment.
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