Andrew Cuomo to receive $5 million from book deal: What you need to know

Andrew Cuomo. Picture courtesy : NBC

• New York Governor Andrew Cuomo will receive $5 million from a book deal about leadership during the COVID-19 times.

• The book will be published by Penguin Random and will be titled “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic”

• He has already received $3.12 million from it and will receive an additional $2 million over the next 2 years.

• Governor has already donated $500,000 to the United Way of New York State which works for pandemic relief and increase vaccination efforts in the State of New York.

• His senior advisor Rich Azzopardi said that he will be putting the remaining amount of money in a trust for his three daughters.

• The deal in the past had received criticism since the Governor was accused of falsifying the number of deaths due to COVID-19 in New York. However, he had denied all claims.