By Nick Reisman, includes “Calls are growing within the state Legislature and among good-government organizations in New York to replace the state government's ethics and lobbying regulator with a commission empowered with more independence from elected officials.  … Fauss pointed to the commission's approval for lucrative book contracts for the former governor, including a $5.1 million agreement last year to write a memoir about the pandemic. Government resources have allegedly been used to help Cuomo write the book, and Attorney General Letitia James's office is now investigating.”