1. Steven Lawrence Rattner was born on July 5,1952 and is an American investor, media commentator, and former journalist.
21 Facts About Steven Rattner
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Steven Rattner then became a managing principal of the Quadrangle Group, a private equity investment firm that specialized in the media and communications industries.
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In 2009, Rattner was named lead adviser to the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry.
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Steven Rattner has been an economic analyst for MSNBC's Morning Joe, and as a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times op-ed page.
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Steven Rattner was born to a Jewish family in Great Neck, New York, the son of Selma and George Steven Rattner.
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Steven Rattner's father was the president of a small paint company and a playwright who produced several Off-Broadway plays; his mother was an architecture preservationist and vice president of the Victorian Society of America.
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Steven Rattner became close friends with Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.
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Steven Rattner concluded his service to The New York Times with two years in London as its European economic correspondent.
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Alongside Felix Rohatyn, Steven Rattner became Lazard's top rainmaker in the 1990s.
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In February 2009, with General Motors and Chrysler insolvent, Steven Rattner was appointed counselor to the United States Secretary of the Treasury and lead auto adviser, a role informally referred to in the media as the "car czar".
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Steven Rattner soon assembled a team that grew to 14 professionals to address the financial problems of the two auto companies.
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Steven Rattner later stated that the toughest decision for President Obama about the two auto companies was whether to save Chrysler.
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At that time, Steven Rattner left Washington and returned to private life in New York.
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Steven Rattner has continued to speak publicly on auto-related matters as well as broader economic issues.
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Steven Rattner became the economic analyst for the MSNBC news show, Morning Joe.
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Quadrangle paid $7 million in April 2010 to settle the SEC investigation, and Steven Rattner personally settled in November for $6.2 million without admitting or denying any wrongdoing.
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Steven Rattner has been a major fundraiser for Democratic Party candidates including Al Gore and Hillary Clinton.
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On December 30,2010, Steven Rattner settled with the New York Attorney General's office by agreeing to pay $10 million in restitution.
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Steven Rattner did not admit any wrongdoing and continued to assert his innocence.
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In 1986, Steven Rattner married Maureen White in an interfaith service at the Lotos Club in Manhattan.
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Steven Rattner supported various educational and cultural institutions through the Steven Rattner Family Foundation, including the Sesame Workshop, Harvard Law School, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and others.