In a new piece published Monday, Vanity Fair claims to have obtained an inside scoop that embattled New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s memoir, “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic,” paid out well over $1 million, even as the governor was mandating that sick patients be admitted to state nursing homes and covering up the resulting death toll.
According to one source, Crown, the Penguin Random House subsidiary that published the book, reached out to Cuomo to preemptively secure a book deal.
“They had published Stacey Abrams together at Holt, and thought they had identified another political star,” the source told Vanity Fair.
However it came about, the book deal raked in “at least low to mid-seven figures, which is a blockbuster sum by industry standards,” the report says, adding that the book, published on Oct. 13, had sold just shy of 46,000 copies as of Feb. 27.
For his part, Cuomo spent weeks promoting the book and hailing his own successes while bashing then-President Donald Trump, even as the pandemic raged on and the death toll in his own state continued to climb.
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The governor is now facing calls to resign even from those in his own party after his own office admitted to intentionally covering up the number of elderly nursing home patients who died after Cuomo ordered care facilities to accept sick patients back into the building, resulting in thousands of the most vulnerable residents contracting and dying from the disease. Cuomo's top aides were altering reports of mass casualties as early as last June, after state health officials included in their report that more than 9,000 people had already died in care facilities. That report was scrubbed of the information while the Cuomo administration continued to publicly report a death toll of roughly half that amount.
Cuomo is also facing a slew of accusations from both current and former female staffers alleging he sexually harassed and even assaulted them while they worked in his office. While he hasn’t admitted to assaulting anyone, Cuomo has public admitted and apologized for his behavior that may have made women uncomfortable, which he claims was made in jest.