Steve Rattner

Eliot Spitzer: Obama Economic Policies Ineffective, A Continuation Of Bush (WATCH)

Posted 11.19.2009 | Business

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Are Obama's economic policies actually working? Intelligence Squared posed this question to six policy experts at a debate in New York this week. ...

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What Happened to Steve Rattner?

Michael Wolff | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

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Michael Wolff

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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Steve Rattner Leaving Auto Task Force

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER and KEN THOMAS | Posted 08.13.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON — Steven Rattner, who led the Obama administration's efforts to restructure General Motors and Chrysler through swift, government-led...

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Before She Met Mark: Jenny Sanford's Wall Street Past

Fortune | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

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Long before she was the sad-eyed First Lady of The Palmetto State, Jenny Sullivan Sanford was a well-respected investment banker at Lazard Freres. In ...

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White House Denies Claims That Car Czar Threatened Chrysler Creditor

New York Times | Posted 06.03.2009 | Politics

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Recent comments by a lawyer representing Chrysler's dissident debtholders alleging that Steven Rattner, the White House's auto task force chief, "dire...

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Pension Kickbacks National Problem, NY's Cuomo Says

Reuters | Posted 05.31.2009 | Home

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New York state's criminal probe of kickbacks paid by companies eager to manage its $122 billion state pension fund has exposed "a national network of ...

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What's So Bad About Steven Rattner?

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics

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Michael Wolff

I've been writing about Steve Rattner pretty steadily for five or six years. He's been one of my favorite characters from the age of financial ambition.

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Quadrangle Wins 'Key-Man' Vote

Wall Street Journal | PETER LATTMAN | Posted 05.27.2009 | Business

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Investors in Quadrangle Group's private-equity vehicle have elected to keep their financial commitment to the fund, reflecting a vote of confidence in...

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Jason Linkins

Times Piece On Rattner Scandal Makes No Mention Of Ties To Richardson

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.23.2009 | Media

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As it turns out, Bill Richardson has some significant ties to Rattner, as well as the aforementioned "pension process."

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Marcus Baram

Pension Fund Scandal Expands: Rattner's Ties To Bill Richardson

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.23.2009 | Business

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UPDATED In journalistic shorthand, this story's got legs. The saga of Obama administration auto czar Steve Rattner and his possible involvement in a...

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What Really Happened Between Steve Rattner And The New York State Fund Scammers

Clusterstock | Henry Blodget | Posted 05.18.2009 | Business

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As we described earlier, former Quadrangle partner Steve Rattner--now Obama's car czar--has been dragged into a New York state retirement fund kickbac...

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Steven Rattner Payments Investigated By SEC Officials

Wall Street Journal | CRAIG KARMIN and PETER LATTMAN | Posted 05.17.2009 | Home

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Steven Rattner, the leader of the Obama administration's auto task force, was one of the executives involved with payments under scrutiny in a probe o...

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Auto Task Force Chief, Investment Banker Steve Rattner, Broke The News To GM's Wagoner

Wall Street Journal | NEIL KING JR. And JOHN D. STOLL | Posted 04.30.2009 | Business

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The Obama administration used the threat of withholding more bailout money to force out General Motors Corp. Chief Executive Rick Wagoner and administ...

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Rattner: GM, Chrysler Needs "Considerably" More Aid

Bloomberg | John Hughes | Posted 04.20.2009 | Business

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March 20 (Bloomberg) -- General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC, which have requested as much as $21.6 billion in additional government aid, may need "c...

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Steve Rattner, Car Czar Candidate, Is No Lee Iacocca: Auto Analysts

Bloomberg | John Hughes and Katie Merx | Posted 02.14.2009 | Business

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Jan. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Steven Rattner, who may become the U.S. car czar, would bring with him the financial savvy amassed during almost 25 years of d...

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Steve Rattner, Obama's Car Czar? Private Equity Titan "Leading Candidate"

ABC News | Jake Tapper | Posted 02.09.2009 | Business

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Democrats tell ABC News successful private equity investor Steve Rattner of the investment firm Quadrangle Group has emerged as President-elect Barack...

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Is Hillary Good For Business?

BusinessWeek | Moira Herbst | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

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In the final Democratic debate of the primaries on Feb. 26, Senator Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) trumpeted the populist theme of her campaign: "The wealth...

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