A judge ruled on Tuesday that former New York governor Andrew Cuomo can keep the $5.1 million book advance he received for his memoir American Crisis–for now. The now-defunct Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) ordered Cuomo to turn over the advance to the state last December, after it was discovered that he used state employees to work on the book during business hours. Cuomo had previously obtained permission from the commission to use state employees, as long as they worked on the book in their free time. Judge Denise A. Hartman of the State Supreme Court in Albany ruled […]
