Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Tuesday, June 24th.

Today on Forbes, here's how much Andrew Cuomo is worth.

In 2017, then-Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law a program that would provide tuition-free college

at New York's public universities for families making under $125,000 per year. In his speech

hailing the legislation, he tied its support for middle-class families to his own life story. He told the

crowd, quote, when you grow up in Queens, you grow up middle class. You grow up part of a working

family. We're not rich in Queens, but that's okay.

At the time, the former cabinet secretary, New York Attorney General, and son of a former New York governor, had already departed the middle class.

Most of his money, per his financial disclosures filed at the time, sat in a blind trust

with between $1.75 and $2 million in it, a healthy sum, though not

shocking for a 59-year-old lawyer at the head of the fourth largest state in the country.

Today, Forbes estimates Cuomo is worth about $10 million, a roughly five-fold gain in less

than a decade. Not bad for a politician who resigned in scandal

just under four years ago. During the height of his pandemic popularity, he signed a $5.2 million

book deal, much of which he got up front, an incredible sum for a governor. Out of office, he returned to

a private and lucrative legal practice in 2022.

Then, two years later, Cuomo, who shut down one of New York's nuclear power plants as governor,

joined the advisory board of a nuclear company, earning him stock options worth over $4 million

as of last Friday's market close.

Unlike most politicians Forbes tracks, Cuomo owns no real estate, meaning he's missed out

on the strong property market of the last decade.

Instead, he forks over $8,000 monthly to rent a two-bedroom apartment in Midtown Manhattan.

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