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FILE - In this July 9, 2009, file photo, Richard Ravitch, who was appointed to the post of New York lieutenant governor, answers questions during a press conference at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y. Ravitch, former lieutenant governor under David Paterson, and the man credited with helping to save New York City from fiscal collapse in the 1970s, has written a memoir. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)

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FILE - In this April 10, 1980, file photo, Metropolitan Transit Authority Chairman Richard Ravitch, right, walks with his arm around Anthony Russo, general chairman of the Railway Carmen Union of the Long Island Rail Road, in New York, after it was announced that the MTA has reached agreement with the last seven of 17 unions of the Long Island Rail Road, ending 15 months of labor problems. Ravitch, former lieutenant governor under David Paterson, and the man credited with helping to save New York City from fiscal collapse in the 1970s, has written a memoir. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm, File)

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FILE - In this Aug. 31, 1994, file photo, Richard Ravitch, a management negotiator for Major League Baseball, pauses during a news conference about the stalled baseball talks in New York. Ravitch, former New York lieutenant governor under David Paterson, and the man credited with helping to save New York City from fiscal collapse in the 1970s, has written a memoir. (AP Photo/Eric Miller, File)

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FILE - In this Tuesday, June 25, 2013, file photo, former New York Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch speaks during a meeting of the State Budget Crisis Task Force at the National Constitution Center, in Philadelphia. On Tuesday, April 22, 2014, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes in Detroit appointed Ravitch as an expert consultant in the Detroit municipal bankruptcy case. Rhodes also is tapping Marti Kopacz of Phoenix Management Services to be an expert witness in the case. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)