New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo makes $5.1m for new book

Jon Campbell ^ | May 17 | Jon Campbell

[RandFan]

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo makes approx. $5.1M for his book "American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic".

[RandFan]

What the ... ? They mean how to kill grandma?

[PGR88]

Leadership Lessons: how to grope, grab, and rape as a public figure - and get away with it!!

[CatOwner]

Thanks a lot, Soros. Now, die already!

[mplc51]

And he still can’t get laid in a women’s prison with a handful of pardons!!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Nothing more than a laundered bribe.

[Reno89519]

Well, that means he has some pretty deep pockets, beyond his corrupt family’s existing wealth, for the families of his nursing home Covid murders to sue him.

[sphinx]

That’s a lot of money for a book that won’t sell 20 copies to real buyers. The left takes care of its own.

[Salman]

The mass murderer's side of the story.

It's just a way to get more money from his real bosses.

[Renfrew]

Someone needs to investigate these book advances. Publishers don’t have this sort of money. Who is providing it?

Every major pol in the country, from both parties, seem to get these payoffs.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Good question.

I have thought that since the payments are called an “advance”, that these are payments to be netted against the actual sales of the books, and will be netted against whatever royalties are due to the author, when they settle up accounts when actual sales roll in.

And, in the case of a book that doesn’t sell, conceivably the author could owe money back to the publisher, since it was an “advance”, not an actual specified contractual amount of an owed payment to the author.

Are these payments really advances; does an author of a dud like this Cuomo book get to keep the money paid as an advance?

[monkeyshine]

But they’ll only give him 50 bucks for the Emmy.

[Karoo]

Is he going to donate the profits to families of those old people in nursing homes he murdered? No

[o-n-money]

That comes to about $3000 a grandparent.

[sphinx]

There should be an absolute prohibition of book advances to anyone holding public office or who has announced a run. By all means, let them write books. I applaud that if they actually have anything to say, which many of them don't. But payments should be strictly limited to the author's cut on actual book sales. This, by the way, would take many of the ghostwriters out of the game as well. If a pol had to pay $20,000 or whatever out of his own pocket for a ghostwriter of a book that will have virtually no sales, the jig will be up.

It's also necessary to police bulk sales to political groups that are also laundered bribes.

[Revel]

Money laundering 101.

[T.B. Yoits]

Nothing more than a laundered bribe.

"Son of Sam" laws were passed in New York to keep serial killer David Berkowitz from profiting from selling his story and here in 2021 Nursing Home Killer (NHK) Cuomo is doing the exact same thing.

May the families of those he killed in nursing homes get every penny of NHK Cuomo's fake "book deal".

[Sacajaweau]

Guiliani wrote a book on Leadership after 9-11. Bet this is a copycat.

[9YearLurker]

His payoff for having done in 20,000 grandmas in such a way that convinced everyone to submit to the lockdowns, vaccines, etc., etc.

[9YearLurker]

It is ultimately published by a German publishing conglomerate with revenue well over $20B per year that is controlled by the offspring of Nazis. Seriously.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertelsmann#Ownership
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhard_Mohn

[ctdonath2]

I’m concluding book deals are a prime means of money laundering. Pull a few strings, hire a ghostwriter, get a few hours with the “author”, arrange big advance, let the public contribute to the payoff (insofar as some will want to read, no matter subject nor “author”), buy off remaining supply as anonymous bulk buyer, “author” enjoys huge royalty payoff.