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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo
New details emerged Wednesday about New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's pandemic memoir, including
how he enlisted government staffers to help with the book — for which he was offered more than $4 million, according to a new report.
Top aides Melissa DeRosa and Stephanie Benton as well as junior staffers assisted the governor with drafts of
American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic, which was published in mid-October,
The New York Times reported.
The governor's book deal — which came as he was riding high in popularity due to his nationally televised coronavirus briefings — ended with a $4 million offer, the
Times reported.
Crown Publishing has since paused promotion of "American Crisis" because of a federal investigation into the Cuomo administration's handling of COVID-19 in nursing homes.
Early last summer, while DeRosa was helping to edit early drafts and attending video meetings with publishers, she and other top aides were also worried about an impending Health Department report about the virus' toll on nursing homes, according to the
Times. The report threatened to reveal a far higher number of nursing home deaths from the coronavirus than had previously been made public by the administration.
Comment: Despite this obvious devastation to people's lives and the irrefutable fact that lockdowns don't work, governments throughout the West are, once again, reimposing lockdowns; evidently, this isn't about a virus: