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A Queens lawmaker is urging embattled Gov. Cuomo and his publisher to disclose the terms of his coronavirus book deal to determine whether he had a financial motivation to manipulate nursinghome death data.

“We are calling on Andrew Cuomo and Crown Publishing to turn over the Governor’s contract of his book deal to the public and media so we can determine whether he had a financial motivation to deflate nursing home data,” said Assemblyman Ron Kim (D-Queens).

“The timeline and Cuomo’s actions already prove a coordinated conspiracy and if there was a financial motive, we must immediately remove the Governor from office and hold him fully accountable for his criminal actions,” Kim said.

Kim said he and other lawmakers are sending a letter to both Cuomo and the Crown Publishing Group to release the financial terms for his self-congratulatory book, “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic,” which was released last October.

Assembly members Emily Gallagher of Brooklyn, Yuh-Line Niou and Harvey Epstein of Manhattan and Phil Steck of Schenectady and Sens. Gustavo Rivera of The Bronx and Jessica Ramos of Queens also signed the letter.

Vanity Fair reported that Cuomo received a seven-figure book deal while he was riding high in popularity stemming from his nationally televised COVID-19 press briefings — even as the pandemic was still raging.

Crown Publishing has paused promotion of the book because of “the ongoing investigation into NYS reporting of Covid-related fatalities in nursing homes,” the firm’s head told The New York Times.

Cuomo’s office and Crown Publishing had no immediate comment.