It appears that he is more closely tied into the state pension plan pay for play scandal than had been previously indicated.

Big surprise. You hire a merger and acquisition scum bag specialist who maked his money on buying up companies, juicing the stocks by making draconian cuts, and then flipping them, and then you have to get rid of him because he turns out to be….well….a scum bag.

So shocked.

BTW, I realize why he got the job in the first place (from the Wiki), “Rattner is married to Maureen White, the former National Finance Chair for the Democratic Party,” which means that she specialized in raising lots of money from her rich friends, so there was an element of pay-for-play in his getting this assignment in the first place.