ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) A legislative investigation released Monday found overwhelming evidence that former Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed women and that he ordered state workers to help produce his book on pandemic leadership during work hours.

The report also found that Cuomos staff substantially revised a state health department report on COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes to exclude statistics that might have dimmed his reputation as a pandemic leader.

The findings, authored by a law firm hired by the Assemblys Judiciary Committee, were widely expected, and the sections on sexual harassment largely echo allegations previously made in a report last summer by the states attorney general.

But it offered some new details, particularly around the $5.2 million private deal Cuomo struck to write a book, American Crisis: Leadership Lessons on the Pandemic.

Cuomo had promised state ethics officials that no state resources would be used on the book , but the Assemblys investigators at the law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell said they found evidence the governor had his staff spend copious amounts of time on the project.

One senior state official explained that book-related assignments were given by superiors and expected to be completed, and the work was not voluntary, the report said. Another senior state official complained in a text message to a colleague that work on the book was compromising the officials ability to work on COVID-related matters.