The Court of Appeals ruled the structure of the Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government does not violate the separation of powers laid out in the state constitution.

New York’s highest court rejected the former governor’s push to undermine an ethics commission that had been investigating a $5.1 million book deal he received for a memoir.

Cuomo had challenged the constitutionality of the panel, which had ruled that he couldn't keep $5 million he was contracted to receive for writing a book.

The state’s top court swatted the former governor’s claim that New York lawmakers' replacement ethics watchdog encroached on

New York State’s top court rules for a watchdog ethics committee attempting to fight public corruption. The group was working to force Cuomo to forfeit book money.