From the New York Times:

Richard Ravitch was meeting with the state insurance superintendent in his spartan Manhattan office on Thursday afternoon when he got an e-mail message informing him that a state appeals court had just ended Mr. Ravitch’s brief tenure as lieutenant governor — at least for now.

Unfazed by the ruling, which said that Gov. David A. Paterson had no constitutional authority to appoint Mr. Ravitch, the deposed lieutenant governor carried on into the evening with the work of immersing himself in the grim details of the state’s troubled finances.

This anticlimactic scene — possibly Mr. Ravitch’s last moment as lieutenant governor — was a far cry from his swearing-in over Scotch and rib-eyes at Peter Luger Steak House in Brooklyn last month.

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