Last month, responding to complaints from residents, merchants and legislators that the cruisers were menacing other motorists and leaving beer bottles and other trash in their wake, the Suffolk County Police created a 20-car task force.
Intelligent, decent and charming, Mr Wagoner was revered at GM right up to the day in March last year when the head of President Obama's car task-force told him that his time was up.
Obama's administration, despite denials, must have a few fingers on the wheel, co-steering the car companies under the aegis of its auto task force.
The head of the Car Wash task force, Deltan Dallagnol, said the potential involvement of Trafigura and Glencore were "two lines of investigation that we are still developing".
"The actions of the so-called Car Wash task force are arbitrary, illegal, and unjustifiable".
Now the important deadline is May 26th, by when the company's creditors are supposed to agree to a deal which treats them far less generously.The latest plan, devised in close consultation with the Obama administration's car-industry task force, is a last-ditch effort to get GM into competitive shape.
On the morning of March 5, a crude pipe bomb was found strapped beneath an unmarked police car used by task force members as it sat parked outside a convenience store.
And two weeks ago, police said, a "dangerous" device was found near the unmarked car of a task force member.
President Obama's auto industry task force acknowledged as much in its assessment of GM's viability when it referred to the most prominent car on the horizon for GM, the Chevy Volt.
In 2009, Rattner served as the Treasury Department's "car czar," overseeing the task force that orchestrated the successful rescue of General Motors and Chrysler.
