Andrew Cuomo Scores Big Win as NY Ethics Panel Probing Him Deemed Unconstitutional

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has scored another legal victory in his efforts to protect his $5 million pandemic-era book deal from a state ethics panel. For the past year, Mr. Cuomo has been fighting off attempts by New York’s Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government (COELIG) to force him to cough up the money he received for writing the 2020 memoir, “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic.” In a ruling handed down Thursday, the Appellate Division of the state Supreme Court unanimously upheld a lower court’s decision, which declared that the establishment of COELIG was illegitimate and ordered the group to cease its actions....