Former Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has denied new allegations that he worked on his memoir “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic” during the height of the titular COVID-19 pandemic.
Cuomo’s memoir earned a $5.1 million book deal. The chapters of Cuomo’s book are formatted with a date, followed by the number of new cases, hospitalizations, and deaths on that given date.
On Friday, a government watchdog organization called the Empire Center for Public Policy published a chain of emails in which one of Cuomo’s top aides, Melissa DeRosa, allegedly asked staff members to produce a timeline of events detailing the governor’s response to the outbreak of COVID-19. The email chain that resulted included a document with a series of dates as well as numbers of hospitalizations and deaths in a format similar to the chapter headings of Cuomo’s book….