The head of the state’s watchdog agency urged state Attorney General Letitia James Wednesday to enforce its order to claw back $5.1 million in book profits from disgraced ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Jose Nieves, chairman of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, sent a letter to the AG’s General Counsel, Larry Schimmel, claiming James can legally enforce JCOPE’s order for Cuomo to return the book profits for his COVID memoir after violating an agreement not to use state resources — including government workers — to prepare it.
Schimmel previously rejected JCOPE’s order as illegal, saying the AG’s office could not enforce such an order without the ethics agency
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