Nice work if you can get it - Gov. Cuomo book deal was for over $5 million

Wow. Pretty soon he'll catch up with his brother's CNN deal.

Cuomo penned “American Crisis” during the early stages of the pandemic as a memoir retelling of his administration’s response to the COVID crisis. The governor reportedly secured $3.21 million in 2020 for the book. State officials said that its contract stipulates an additional $2 million to be paid out over the next two years, the New York Times reported.

The book was published in October, as New York experienced its second wave of COVID cases. It quickly became a New York Times bestseller, selling thousands of copies as Cuomo took the spotlight for his state’s management of the pandemic. However, amid scandals embattling the governor’s office, including sexual harassment allegations and an investigation into New York’s alleged under-reporting of nursing home deaths, publisher Crown Publishing Group vowed to halt promotion of the book and well as scrap production of the paperback version.