Felix G. Rohatyn, the titantic Lazard banker, has been much in the news in recent years, as he reflects on his specialities, profligate bankers and broken public finances. Mr. Rohatyn is most often remembered not for the usual business of big deals, though there are those–KKR and RJR Nabisco, Sony and Capital–but his hand in Read More
When State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sat down to breakfast with storied financial consultant Felix G. Rohatyn at the Regency this January, he was so eager to pick his guest’s brain—and so intensely solicitous—that he barely had time to touch the food on his plate.
He needn’t have worried.
“I said to him, ‘Look, you Read More
When State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sat down to breakfast with storied financial consultant Felix G. Rohatyn at the Regency this January, he was so eager to pick his guest’s brain—and so intensely solicitous—that he barely had time to touch the food on his plate.
He needn’t have worried.
“I said to him, ‘Look, Read More
Remember the Eliot Spitzer-John Whitehead pissing match that was all that was all over the New York Post just three months ago? Spitzer apparently apologized (sort of), at least to the businessmen who gathered in Felix Rohatyn’s living room. In this week’s Observer, Jason Horowitz relates the conversation:
“There was this big controversy Read MoreA month into his third term, Governor George Pataki unveiled a budget that has won him acclaim in national Republican circles for its strict adherence to a pro-growth, no-new-taxes philosophy. At the same time, he has deferred many tough budgetary choices, plugging the state’s $10 billion budget gap with temporary measures that will leave the Read More
A couple of weeks ago, a friend suggested that I call Jack Bigel, a forgotten hero of the city’s torturous crawl from the abyss of bankruptcy in the mid-1970′s. I hadn’t spoken with Mr. Bigel in over a decade-in other words, since the city’s last fiscal crisis-so I wrote a note to myself to renew Read More
