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Cuomo will pocket at least $700,000 from upcoming book

ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo will pocket at least $700,000 from his upcoming book, according to newly-filed disclosure forms.

A guessing game about the value of Cuomo’s book deal began in April, when he released tax returns showing he had received an advance of $188,333 for an autobiography titled “All Things Possible: Setbacks and Success in Politics and Life.”

The book, with collaborator Linda Kulman, is scheduled for release by Harper Collins in August.

The governor’s aides said back then that he paid out $35,127 in legal and other fees, leaving him with more than $150,000.

But they wouldn’t disclose how many additional payments he was going to collect in the deal.

The mystery was at least partly solved when Cuomo filed a disclosure form with the state’s Joint Commission on Public Ethics last week saying he expected another $550,000 to $650,000.

It wasn’t clear if he would also get a cut of every book sold.

The compensation package was first reported online Friday by Capital New York.

Cuomo’s version of his life story will be followed by an unauthorized biography next year by Vanity Fair’s Michael Shnayerson being published by Hachette Book Group.

That book called, “The Contender: Andrew Cuomo, A Biography,” was first scheduled to be released in November.

But the launch date was pushed back to February 2015.