Former Gov. Mario Cuomo has been tapped to mediate the $300 million-plus lawsuit that accuses the Mets owners of illegally profiting from Bernard Madoff’s epic Ponzi scheme.
The Queens native, who wrote the intro to a 1996 history of the Amazin’s, was appointed yesterday by the judge overseeing the case.
Manhattan Bankruptcy Court Judge Burton Lifland said “there are special issues presented in the [suit] that suggest referral to an appropriately experienced mediator.”
The order notes that both sides “have been informed of and consented to” Cuomo’s appointment.
Lifland also imposed a blackout on settlement negotiations, saying “no documents relating to the matter to be mediated shall be filed with the court.”
Cuomo, currently “of counsel” to the white-shoe law firm Wilkie Farr & Gallagher, didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.