Steven Rattner

Steven Rattner: GM Had "Stunningly Poor Management"

Posted 10.21.2009 | Business


Steven Rattner, the ex "car czar" who helped organize the bailout of the Detroit automakers earlier this year, has begun to speak out about his experi...

Campaign Contributions May Be Linked To Pension Fund Deals

usatoday.com | Kevin McCoy | Posted 09.27.2009 | Business


More than two dozen firms that have surfaced in a broad corruption investigation of public pension funds gave at least $1.97 million in campaign contr...

AP source: NY AG may press for Rattner settlement

AP | DAVID B. CARUSO | Posted 08.14.2009 | Business


NEW YORK — The state attorney general may press for a legal settlement with Steven Rattner, until recently a key Obama administration adviser on...

What Happened to Steve Rattner?

Michael Wolff | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics


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.

Brian Deese: GM Bankruptcy's 31-Year-Old Wiz Kid

nytimes.com | DAVID E. SANGER | Posted 07.02.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON -- It is not every 31-year-old who, in a first government job, finds himself dismantling General Motors and rewriting the rules of American...

Rattner, Obama's Car Czar, Worth At Least $188 Million

bloomberg.com | Jonathan D. Salant and Justin Blum | Posted 06.28.2009 | Business


May 28 (Bloomberg) -- Steven Rattner, the Obama administration adviser trying to orchestrate a rescue of the U.S. auto industry, has a net worth of at...

Car Czar Steven Rattner Held Shares In Investment Fund Run By Chrysler's Majority Owner

Bloomberg News | Posted 06.27.2009 | Business


Steven Rattner, head of the U.S. Treasury Department's automotive team, has a net worth of at least $188 million and held shares in an investment fund...

Steven Rattner, Car Czar, Building Martha's Vineyard Mansion

New York Post | MARK DeCAMBRE | Posted 06.18.2009 | Business


STEVEN Rattner, the auto industry adviser to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, is flagrantly thumbing his nose at President Obama's call for Americ...

White House Denies Claims That Car Czar Threatened Chrysler Creditor

New York Times | Posted 06.03.2009 | Politics


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

Grand Theft Automaker

Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.31.2009 | Business


Stuart Whatley

Nobody expects the administration to right the world economy in a day, but what it can do is make sure each who is owed gets his fair share of the pie.

What's So Bad About Steven Rattner?

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics


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.

Quadrangle Wins 'Key-Man' Vote

Wall Street Journal | PETER LATTMAN | Posted 05.27.2009 | Business


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

Steven Rattner's Potential Conflict Between Auto Investments, Role As Car Czar

Apr. 23, 2009 | William D. Cohan, Contributor | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics


NEW YORK -- Steven Rattner, the New York banker-turned-Obama Administration car czar, has been much in the news lately. Riding high in early April tha...

Jason Linkins

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.23.2009 | Media


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

Marcus Baram

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.23.2009 | Business


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

Steven Rattner Payments Investigated By SEC Officials

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


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...

Steven Rattner, Obama's Top Auto Industry Troubleshooter

New York Times | LOUISE STORY | Posted 05.06.2009 | Business


After 26 years as one of the most politically connected investment bankers on Wall Street, Steven Rattner finally took a job in Washington -- only it ...

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


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

Obama Auto Team Wraps Up In Detroit

Wall Street Journal | NEIL KING JR. And JOHN D. STOLL | Posted 04.08.2009 | Politics


President Barack Obama's auto team will spend Monday at the Detroit home of the Big Three as the administration begins to narrow its options for helpi...

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

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


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...

Media Executives On Market Crisis: M&A Outlook Bleak

Portfolio | Jeff Bercovici | Posted 10.17.2008 | Media


Three out of three moguls agree: The implosion of Wall Street is going to be not so good for anyone hoping to get a big media deal done. NBC Universa...

We'll Miss Bloomberg: New York Businesss Titans

New York Times | Michael Barbaro | Posted 07.15.2008 | Business


At charity balls and board meetings, on putting greens and in telephone conversations, New York's corporate titans are on the hunt: Michael R. Bloombe...

Mogul War

New York Post | PETER LAURIA and PAUL THARP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


After weeks of trading jabs in the press and in legal filings, Liberty Media Corp. Chairman John Malone delivered a potential knockout punch late last...