NEW YORK (WBEN) — New York's ethics agency is reportedly allowing former Gov. Andrew Cuomo keep the $5.1 million he has made from his now-controversial COVID-19 book.
CBS 2 in New York City reports the agency's panel made the decision Tuesday.
Six members voted in Cuomo's favor, including a former Suffolk County district administrative judge, who Gov. Kathy Hochul chose.
The New York Post reports other favorable votes came from Cuomo appointee — Commissioner James Dering — who Hochul made the Joint Commission on Public Ethics's acting chairman on Tuesday and an appointee by Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins.
Three other commissioners chosen by the former governor, ahead of his August resignation, also voted in his favor.
The agency's decision came a week it was reported the JCOPE was issued at least one subpoena by Attorney General Letitia James for the agency's records on Cuomo's deal for his memoir, "American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic."