What Happened to Steve Rattner?

Rattner is the well-connected financier who was the almost-car czar. That is, he was supposed to be the car czar but by some slight of hand he was demoted -- given the job without the title.
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It is, so far, the strange case of Steven Rattner and his abrupt and unexplained exit from Washington and the Obama administration -- but insiders assume that this story of the ultimate (or would-be ultimate) insider will, rather sooner than later, come clear.

Rattner is the self-styled, politically-savvy, fabulously well-connected financier who went to Washington as the almost-car czar. That is, he was supposed to be the car czar but by some slight of hand he was demoted -- given the job but without the title (which might have had something to do with his wife's drunk-driving conviction and his efforts to have the press hush it up). And car czar was a far-step-down from the Treasury secretary job he'd hoped for -- alas, he was a Hillary rather than Obama supporter.

Yesterday, he left the car czar job after six months. This probably has something to do with the New York State attorney general's investigation of Rattner's former company's involvement in an alleged scheme to obtain state pension fund investment monies -- although this investigation has been publicly going on since he took the almost-czar job.

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