1528. Eddie Antar, in 94-5230, 53 F. Believe it or not, there really was a real life salesman named Crazy Eddie. ANTAR, MITCHELL ANTAR, ISAAC KAIREY, DAVID PANOFF, EDDIE GINDI, AND KATHLEEN MORIN, Civil Action No. 31 (30% off) Clothing. The girl had been at the hospital since hours after the Feb. CNNMoney (New York) First published September 11, 2016: 6:59 PM ET Eddie Antar,. And interesting enough, Danny DeVito is set to direct a biopic about his life. District Court for the District of New Jersey ordered Deborah Rosen Antar and her daughters (the former wife and children of Eddie Antar) to disgorge illegal profits arising from Eddie Antar's sale of 300,000 shares of. A CASE STUDY Eddie Antar, one of the most shameless white-collar criminals in the last half of the 20th century, limped onto his latest of many flights from New York to Tel Aviv, Israel. But looking back at all of it, the entire story of Eddie Antar — forget about his prices — was insane. " Eddie Antar, co-founder of the Crazy Eddie electronic retail chain, died Saturday at age 68. Former Crazy Eddie store pitchman Jerry Carroll, center, and Alan Antar, brother of store founder Eddie Antar, at a 1998 opening. Eddie Antar. Eddie Antar, the Brooklyn-born man who created the chain of Crazy Eddie electronics stores only to watch it collapse when an underlying fraud was exposed, died on Saturday. 0:00. Before long, Crazy Eddie, who just a few years before had been demanding customer's shoes as a deposit, had sold over $70 million in stock and fled the country with bundles of cash strapped to his body like the Michelin Man. sentenced Eddie Antar, formerly the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Crazy Eddie, Inc. pdf) or read online for free. (Eddie spent several years in prison. On this episode of Dirty Money, co-hosts Jon Small and Dan Bova speak with Gary Weiss,. Known as Eddie Antar, he became a pioneer. She is also a mother. Later. 2 (emphasis added). Eddie Antar, 68, who owned retail chain Crazy Eddie electronics, has died. Download. By 1989 the company was bankrupt. Antar, 59, the founder and former chief executive of the now-defunct Crazy Eddie chain of electronics stores, has never heard of Alexander. As breathless sales pitches occasionally remind us, everything must go. The original predecessor company to Crazy Eddie was ERS Electronics, which was founded by Eddie Antar, Sam M. Antar, 36, also spoke of how he grew up in Brooklyn a few blocks from the Antar brothers. Among his clients were Donald J. September 12, 2016, 10:34 a. Antar, a window trimmer whose finances revolved around suitcases of cash known as “nehkdi,”. C. The insularity of the organization was reflected in the ranks of employees who belonged to the tightknit Syrian community. Eddie S Antar. Antar fled the country in 1990 and two years later was arrested in Israel. ) Sam E. He was 68. In Episode 124 of Fraud Talk, Gary Weiss, author of “Retail Gangster. Mitchell Antar, in 94-5228. By The Associated Press. Antar died in Ocean Township, New Jersey, home on Saturday. Antar, was CFO of Crazy Eddie and was complicit in its fraud. 1609) 1680 Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato singer, dies at 69;. Mitchell Antar, 39, was sentenced to four years in prison and ordered to pay back $3. OCEAN TOWNSHIP - The man who turned the “Crazy Eddie” electronics stores into a retail giant before it collapsed amid federal fraud charges has died. He died on 10 September 2016, in New Jersey, United. Theodora Antar, who is suing some 325 judges, lawyers, entities and institutions, is in her second year of law at the University of Connecticut School of Law. BROOKLYN-- He was known as Crazy Eddie. Crazy Eddie began as a family-controlled operation with Eddie Antar as the key. . Eddie Antar defrauded investors out of more than $74 million, and died in 2016. Lives in Brooklyn. Wednesday, Sam Antar was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison in connection with his own investment scheme that went sour. In June 1992, the law finally caught up with Eddie Antar, alias David Cohen. She and her daughters paid $3. Founded by father and son team Sam M. Judge Ackerman began his opinion as follows: There is perhaps no more insidious drain on the. He became famous by cheating money from women he met through newspaper announcements, by. Edition of Sun-JournalThis is the story of a Brooklyn Italian family. J. Eddie Antar founded Crazy Eddie in Brooklyn in 1970, and at its peak in the 1980s, the chain had more than 40 stores, mostly in the metropolitan New York area, with reported annual sales of more. In Episode 124 of Fraud Talk, Gary Weiss, author of “Retail. ET Retail king Crazy Eddie was a high school dropout who once got stabbed outside a nightclub, a new book reveals. During the 1980s, I helped mastermind with my cousin Eddie Antar and Uncle Sam M. 0. he helped us get a nice corolla for my daughter with no pressure and did his best to get us top dollar for an older trade, very much appreciated ! Thank you. In Episode 124 of Fraud Talk, Gary. . Tuesday night to share the. The younger Antar, who had become Crazy Eddie’s CFO, pled guilty to charges of securities and mail fraud conspiracy and obstruction of justice. District Judge Harold A. However, I heard it from time to time form the various other individuals like Ben Kuszer, Mitchell Antar and Eddie Antar, and also in the previous year I heard it from those various individuals also. Antar was chief financial officer of Crazy Eddie, a New York electronics retailer that in the 1970s and 1980s claimed “our prices are inSANE” as it bilked investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars. Three years later, he was extradited back to the U. Sam A. May 26, 2023 11:48 AM Crazy Eddie’s nephew settles $650K fraud case from prison cell Aaron Elstein Email Share Tweet Share New Jersey Department of Corrections Sam A. The father of five's cause of death has not been made public. The film is being financed by eOne. The funeral home said it had no details on. . 0:52. Here's a quick look at 11 moments during his rise and fascinatingly bizarre fall: Antar opened his first Crazy Eddie electronics store in 1969 on Kings Highway in. Sam A. The government and various civil litigants recovered over $75 million from Eddie and $2 million from Mitchell. Operating undetected for years, Eddie’s business practices were grounded in fraud from the very beginning. Antar fled in 1990. Palmieri not only ousted Mr. Eddie Antar paid for his cousin Sam E. Antar, Mitchell Antar, Isaac Kairey, and David Panoff, former officers and directors of Crazy Eddie, Inc. Electronics kingpin "Crazy Eddie," left, died Saturday at the age of 68. A man’s face on 20 Now 62, Antar ended up cooperating with the feds, which helped them convict Eddie Antar on multiple charges, sending him to prison for a seven-year stretch. Antar owned 1/3 of Sights and Sounds. View More Reviews on. ) Sam E. Grinberg faces up to five years in prison and $250,000 in fines when he is sentenced on May 28. The notoriety of this case has continued into the 21st century. Gonzalez, Jr. In 1984, Eddie Antar divorced his wife, and the Crazy Eddie family organization began to fracture. e. Founded by Eddie Antar, Crazy Eddie was a chain of consumer electronic stores in the Northeast. New Yorkers know the company — which imploded when. their book keeping stole millions! Crazy Eddie Antar and his cousin Sam Antar meet face-to-face decades. F. . 12, 2022 Good morning. (1995) - Free download as PDF File (. Eddie was a family man, a ladies man, and a rich man. Antar eventually pleaded guilty to. Along with my cousin Eddie Antar, his father Sam M. 18, 1947, the grandson of Syrian Jewish immigrants. Antar, 75, of West End, New Jersey. There, the founder and chief executive of Crazy Eddie Inc. Jon Turteltaub will direct the biopic Insane about "Crazy" Eddie Antar, who did time on one of the greatest securities frauds in history, according to Deadline. . Mitchell Antar, in 94-5228. He was a true genius (“goen”). , to — at its height — 43 stores in. Eddie Antar is alleged to have made $75 million during the short public life of Crazy Eddie. In 1984, the. Antar is the nephew of the late Eddie Antar — the proprietor of Crazy Eddie’s electronic retailers that were ubiquitous in the Northeast in the 1970s and 1980s. The girl had been at the hospital since hours after the Feb. He previously broke the news of Eddie Antar's death in 2016 and later authored a first-person memoir of his experience there. Dec 4, 2017 6:43 PM EST. Antar. Eddie Antar was sentenced last month to. Other co-conspirators pleaded guilty to various crimes, cooperated with the government investigations of Crazy Eddie, and testified at. The Crazy Eddie, Inc. Eddie Antar was 68. longs for the day when her 4-year-old daughter, Livia, can act like a. 5 million shares of his stock, Mr. He. 0:00. Editor's note: This article appeared in the June 5, 1989 issue of Crain's New York Business. Provide details on what you need help with along with a budget and time limit. to electronics chain called "Crazy Eddie", that supposed to be great & epic, But Unfortunately, Eddie goes end up having terrible problems. Crime Jul 15, 2003 23 min. All groups and messages. Although Eddie. It’s the first face-to-face meeting in 20 years between cousins Eddie and Sam Antar, the founder and chief financial officer, respectively, of the Crazy Eddie electronics stores. Antar: “1969-1979: Skimming and under-reporting income (tax fraud) prior to the big plan to go public. Eddie Antar founded the Crazy Eddie electronics retail chain in Brooklyn, New York, which rose to prominence across the New York-New Jersey area throughout the 1970s. . Owner of the famous Crazy Eddie chain of stores. Used 2021 Chevrolet Traverse LT Cloth SUV Summit White for sale - only $31,491. Sven Nackstrand/AFP/Getty ImagesDeadline reports that Jon Turteltaub, director of the National Treasure films and The Meg, will helm Insane, which will track the real Crazy Eddie's rise and fall. CHAPTER 7 The Antar Complex: Eddie Antar There’s a scene in the movie Splash when the mermaid, played like a fish out of water by Darryl Hannah, wanders into Bloomingdale’s. Eddie's father, Sam, who openly sympathized with his daughter-in-law, suffered a heart attack days after the New Year's Eve confrontation. Although Eddie Antar founded the company, Sam. A CASE STUDY Eddie Antar, one of the most shameless white-collar criminals in the last half of the 20th century, limped onto his latest of many flights from New York to Tel Aviv, Israel. Mitchell Antar, in 94-5228. Masterminds. He ducked into a store, left the money with the Syrian shopkeeper, and promptly forgot. The Crazy Eddie name is not forgotten, let’s hope they re-open some of those magical stores someday! Our friend Dean lived in the New York area for a while and was a loyal Crazy Eddie customer. (2) 1980-1984: Gradually reducing skimming to increase profit growth in preparation for the initial public offering, i. Antar allegedly used about $974,000 in… The nephew of “Crazy Eddie,” the New York retail legend who later went to prison on fraud charges, has himself been charged with allegedly committing. , committing securities fraud by “going legit”. It was unsuccessful to begin. All groups and messages. 6 earthquake. Licensed to: iChapters User CASE 1. He was 68. Antar was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison in 2013 for taking $225,000 in a fraudulent investment scheme and spending the money in part on gambling, and he pled guilty in 2019 to second-degree theft by deception in another investment scheme. Sam E. 524K subscribers 59K views 15 years ago Their prices were insane. Eddie Antar was having an crimes such as. His cousin Eddie Antar, the company’s CEO, fled to Israel in 1990. " It's a colorful story from the early days of home PC sales. Serial fraudster Sam A. Although Eddie Antar founded the company, Sam. I am glad we were able to make our Truck purchase from Eddie Antar. Eddie Cantor. In 2013, Sam Antar was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for taking $225,000 in a fraudulent investment scheme. The family business grew into a chain with. Retail Gangster (Hachette Books, August 23, 2022), his fourth book, is an inside look at Eddie Antar---a marketing genius who turned a tiny Brooklyn store into the heart of a corporate empire, the largest retailer of consumer electronics in the northeast. The Crazy Eddie, Inc. , USDC NJ, Civil Action No. A cause of death. Sam A. February 27, 1990 arrest warrant for Eddie Antar. 1 Despite this modest beginning, Antar would eventually dominate the retail consumer elec- tronics market in the New York City. Operating undetected for years, Eddie’s business practices were grounded in fraud from the very beginning. Antar was an intelligent youth but found school boring, dropping out at. (YouTube screen capture) OCEAN TOWNSHIP, New Jersey — The man who turned the Crazy Eddie electronics stores into a retail giant before it collapsed amid federal fraud charges has died. A man’s face on 20Now 62, Antar ended up cooperating with the feds, which helped them convict Eddie Antar on multiple charges, sending him to prison for a seven-year stretch. Sol Goldman, largest individual real estate owner in NYC: Chrysler Building; Plaza Hotel, etc. Fled to Israel in February 1990 to avoid prosecution with $53 million in Swiss bank accounts. Serial fraudster Sam A. Eddie, Ronnie, and Sam M. Later extradited and. Antar, which is to continue next week, has bolstered the government’s contention that Eddie Antar, along with his brothers Mitchell and Allen, bilked stockholders of $80 million before the chain collapsed in the late 1980s. View More Reviews on. W. By Niraj Chokshi Sept. JINDERIS, Syria (AP) — A baby girl who was born under the rubble of her family’s earthquake-shattered home has left the hospital and gone to her new home, where she was with her paternal aunt’s family Monday. Natalie was the second Cantor daughter and truly the hardest one to find information on. However, I heard it from time to time form the various other individuals like Ben Kuszer, Mitchell Antar and Eddie Antar, and also in the previous year I heard it from those various individuals also. Antar co-founded Crazy Eddie in the early 1970s with his father and another family member as a single store on Kings Highway in Brooklyn, New York. Antar, a close friend and cousin of Eddie Antar, joined the company and became its controller. Chertoff said. "I remember Marvin buying Eddie a dog, or maybe Eddie bought one for Marvin," Mr. . Eddie fled to Israel using a fake passport and the alias David Jacob Levi Cohen, and purchased a townhouse in the city of Yavne. who sided with their daughter-in-law. Crazy Eddie's eventually went public and had a valuation of $600 million. Per their story: Antar opened his. Wall Street swooned. Gary Weiss, author of Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie, explains how a Kings Highway sales-tax hustle grew into an era-defining media blitz and nine-figure stock fraud before the whole thing collapsed. $24. Because of his. Bush's daughter Dorothy marries Bobby Koch; Jun 30 Actress Cecil Hoffman (Zoe-LA Law) marries Paul. Kuzser refused, and the dispute began to fester. Antar. Apr 05, 2021. the another true-crime story called "The Eels of Electronics", Where it should based on Eddie and Sam M. Eddie Antar, the chain's founder, and his brothers Mitchell and Allen were accused of pocketing more than $80 million by selling artificially valued stock. Founded by Eddie Antar, Crazy Eddie was a chain of consumer electronic stores in the Northeast. OCEAN TOWNSHIP, N. The fraud at Crazy Eddie was one of the longest running in modern times, lasting from 1969 to 1987. Highly recommend him to all shoppers. Few things evoke the New York of a particular era the way “Crazy Eddie!Eddie Antar, 47, was sentenced to 12 1/2 years in prison and ordered to repay $121 million to investors. Entrepreneur Eddie Antar grew his chain of discounts stores in the New York of the 1970s with unforgettably loud TV commercials, a reputation for low prices and a compelling story about an underdog family of Syrian Jews who had fled persecution and built a successful. The real story of Crazy Eddie is a familiar American story of wild success. Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, Peter Steinfeld. The nephew of "Crazy Eddie," the New York retail legend who later went to prison on fraud charges, has himself been charged with allegedly committing fraud to feed a gambling habit. An Audacious Start: Eddie Antar was born in Brooklyn, New York, on Dec. C. Highly recommend him to all shoppers. In 2013, Sam Antar was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for taking $225,000 in a fraudulent investment scheme. Being a school drop-out, Antar uses it as a motivation to fulfill his ambition of becoming a successful business mogul. Eddie Antar, Who Started The Crazy Eddie Chain With 'Insane!'. It’s about family, business, ambition, money, and betrayal. Crazy Eddie. About Eddie Antar. C. 9 million to disgorge profits from Eddie’s illegal stock sales. The family business grew into a chain with. Subject of Burt Lancaster movie. , and Eddie’s cousin Ronnie Gindi started with a single electronics retailer store in Brooklyn, NY 1969in , called ‘Sights and Sounds’, with each of owning a third of the company. Eddie's father, Sam, who openly sympathized with his daughter-in-law, suffered a heart attack days after the New Year's Eve confrontation. Sam E. Antar, who went into business with his father, turned Crazy Eddie into the largest electronics chain in the New York metropolitan area. The bidders said that they already owned 14 percent of Crazy Eddie's 31. Birdman of Alcatraz. Much of the ill-gotten loot was placed. “Crazy” Eddie Antar, dubbed the “Darth Vader of Capitalism” by the then. — The man who turned the Crazy Eddie electronics stores into a retail giant before it collapsed amid federal fraud charges has died. and found guilty of racketeering and stock fraud. 89-3773 (NHP)] (LR-12548) DISMISSAL GRANTED TO LEONARD M. The repatriation order again came up during the trial when Eddie's daughter died and his attorney requested the court to allow him to sit. December 31, 1983: New Year’s Eve massacre Eddie Antar was a ladies man and was not faithful to his first wife Debbie Rosen Antar (known as Debbie # 1). Their prices were insane. Eddie was a millionaire, with roughly 53 million dollars in. One memorable family story featured Murad Antar—Eddie and Sam’s grandfather and family patriarch who immigrated to America in 1920. Danielle Antar: Birthdate: estimated between 1952 and 2012 : Death: Immediate Family: Daughter of Eddie Antar and Private Sister of Private; Private; Private; Private and Private . Dealership Rating. and is obligated to disgorge that amount; and (2) Eddie Antar is liable for prejudgment interest in the amount of $20,976,884. Antar, 44 years old, was indicted for defrauding Crazy Eddie stockholders of $83 million and was the subject of a two-year international hunt. In 1987, Eddie Antar was forced out, and a physical inventory undertaken by new management revealed that $40 million of merchandise did not exist. The chain's growth was helped by the introduction of the VCR. The Bloomfield-Cooper funeral home in Ocean. He was 68. In 2013, Sam Antar was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for taking $225,000 in a fraudulent investment scheme. Among his clients were Donald J. Antar, 41 years old, and two other executives violated insider trading laws by selling more than $60 million of their private holdings in Crazy Eddie stock at a time when the. No cause was given. MORE: 'Crazy Eddie' dead at 68. Sam E. The Securities and Exchange Commission today proposed amendments to the definition of "accredited investor" in the Commission's rules and the definition of "qualified institutional buyer" in Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933. The repatriation order again came up during the trial when Eddie's daughter 57. The nephew of "Crazy Eddie," the New York retail legend who later went to prison on fraud charges, has himself been charged with allegedly committing fraud to feed a gambling habit. Eddie Antar, the founder of the Crazy Eddie chain of electronics stores, was sentenced to a total of eight years in prison and fined $250,000 today for falsifying the chain's books and fleeing the. Antar said. Eddie Antar was 68. Antar, who went into business with his father, turned Crazy Eddie into the largest electronics chain in the New York metropolitan area. In other words, he turns the complicated and baffling into simple and understandable. Allen Antar, 48, of Oakhurst, New Jersey, is one of Eddie's brothers. Prices, Dies At 68. View More Reviews on. The commercials were parodied in the movie “Splash. Eddie Antar was the mastermind behind the various schemes and hired his relatives to work at the electronics chain to help aid and abet the fraud. Carella, Esq. TUCKER The Atlanta Regional and Miami Branch Offices announced that, on June 26, the Honorable Jose A. Maintained by: Find a Grave. Antar (co-founders of the company) one of the largest securities frauds of its time. At its height, Crazy Eddie had 43 stores in four North Eastern states. Tweet on TwitterFollowing his time in prison, Antar desperately tried to start one electronics effort after another, but ultimately they all failed. Stiff Sentence. It also evokes the saga of the Syrian. OCEAN TOWNSHIP, N. 1051. . The money involved was dwarfed by the Crazy Eddie saga, which bilked. During his term as the company's chief executive. m. Antar, Mitchell Antar, Isaac Kairey, and David Panoff, former officers and directors of Crazy Eddie, Inc. . As I have shared with. Eddie Palmieri's ConjuntoBorn in 1947, Antar opened his first Crazy Eddie electronics store when he was in his early 20s, in Brooklyn, N. The Bloomfield-Cooper. Antar's minor children. Mitchell Antar has resigned as executive vice president and chief operating officer of Crazy Eddie Inc. Antar, Mitchell Antar, Isaac Kairey, David Panoff, Eddie Gindi and Kathleen Morin, USDC for the District of New Jersey, Newark Division, Civil Action No. Antar to see what he could tell me about his cousin Sam A. Eddie Antar, better known as “Crazy Eddie,” is a very prevalent fraudster in the world of accounting. 01. Antar, who served as Crazy Eddie's CFO, gleefully recounted how he bamboozled the outside auditors and then avoided prison by testifying against his cousin. he helped us get a nice corolla for my daughter with no pressure and did his best to get us top dollar for an older trade, very much appreciated ! Thank you. Maxene Andrews. Entrepreneur Eddie Antar grew his chain of discounts stores in the New York of the 1970s with unforgettably loud. In response to a motion by the SEC, the court on June 29, 1990 determined that “ (1) Eddie Antar made illegal profits of $52,519,548 from the sale of the stock of Crazy Eddie, Inc. Eddie Antar, his father Sam MAntar. Eddie Antar started the chain in 1969 with a store in Brooklyn, N. Antar knows a thing or two about corporate fraud. ); Deborah Rosen Antar; Robert S. (3) 1984-1987: As a. The Father’s an over the top, avid Yankee fan. He built “Crazy Eddie’s” into a publicly traded $300 million company with many franchise locations. Eddie Antar, whose Crazy Eddie retail chain was once as much a part of the New York landscape as pizza slices and the ubiquitous yellow cab, has died. Since that time, the SEC. " App. Deborah is 74 years old and was born in June 1949. Family problems led to business problems for Eddie Antar (Courtesy of the Courtroom Sketches of Ida Libby Dengrove, University of Virginia Law Library) Sam M. Eddie was a family man, a ladies man, and a rich man. Sup. Wednesday, Sam Antar was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison in connection with his own investment scheme that went sour. In 1969, Eddie Antar, a 21-year-old high school dropout from Brooklyn, opened a consumer electronics store with 150 square feet of floor space in New York City. Antar, nephew of the crook behind the epic Crazy Eddie scam, last week settled a federal securities-fraud case from his New Jersey prison. Had the auditors invested the time and expense to investigate Eddie before accepting him as a client, they perhaps would. The Bloomfield-Cooper Jewish Chapels in New Jersey confirmed Antar's death to CNNMoney on Sunday. Eddie Antar, the Brooklyn-born business executive who helped turn the Crazy Eddie electronics stores into a retail giant before it collapsed amid federal fraud charges, died Sept. Crazy Eddie may have died rich. J. Sammy’s testimony, in part, helped investigators trace Eddie’s Israeli bank accounts and other ill-gotten gains. Eddie Antar made more than $74. 143-145. Today, Carroll is considered to be one of the greatest spokespeople in advertising history. Dealership Rating. Highly recommend him to all shoppers. The nephew of "Crazy" Eddie Antar was charged with theft on Tuesday for allegedly stealing nearly $800,000 from investors in New Jersey and New York and using much of the money to gamble. 6 earthquake. Eddie was a millionaire, with roughly 53 million dollars in. 20 old farm road, oakhurst, NJ 07755250 e 63rd street 1012, new york, NY 10065265 e 66th st apt 25d, new york, NY 10065265 e 66th st apt 31a, new york, NY 10065265 e 66th st apt 38a, new york, NY 10065265 e 66th street. Here's a quick look at 11 moments during his rise and fascinatingly bizarre fall: Antar opened his first Crazy Eddie electronics store in 1969 on Kings Highway in Brooklyn. Antar vanished from the United States after. Mr. He also is the nephew of Eddie Antar, who founded the Crazy Eddie electronics stores in the 1970s and 1980s, who defrauded investors out of more than $74 million. Mr. Crazy Eddie. United States of America v. Antar, the. Eddie Antar, who hired a radio disc jockey to portray him in the iconic TV. Eddie Antar was 68. On September 10, 2016, he died at the age of 68, reportedly having been battling liver cancer. Eddie Antar served over 6 years in prison and Mitchell Antar served approximately 2 years. Available on Prime Video, Tubi TV, Amazon Freevee. Antar eventually sold out for a large profit, but stockholders lost huge amounts of money when Crazy Eddie filed for bankruptcy in 1989 and then went out of business. Eddie Antar defrauded investors out of more than $74 million, and died in 2016. View contact information: phones, addresses, emails and networks. Antar is serving his second sentenceSam Antar, the felonious former CFO of Crazy Eddie, is now teaching students and prosecutors how to spot fraud in public companies. As anyone who has been exposed to the news this past week can tell you, Eddie Antar, a/k/a Crazy Eddie, passed away on September 10, 2016. Mr. Eddie Antar founded the Crazy Eddie electronics retail chain in Brooklyn, New York, which rose to prominence across the New York-New Jersey area throughout the 1970s. Y. Eddie Antar, his father Sam M. Jun 28 US President George H. UMASS Boston Eddie Antar Crazy Eddie. For 13 years Eddie Antar wheeled and dealt out of an office in his Brooklyn headquarters that sported a bar, leather couch and a gym. After going public in the 1980s, the stock became nearly a 10-bagger before investigators found it. (AP) — The man who turned the Crazy Eddie electronics stores into a retail giant before it collapsed amid federal fraud charges has died. He was 68. COURT ORDERS FORMER WIFE AND CHILDREN OF EDDIE ANTAR TO DISGORGE PROCEEDS OF INSIDER TRADING The U. S. Crazy Eddie was a consumer electronics empire built on hype. In Episode 124 of Fraud Talk, Gary Weiss, author of “Retail. (YouTube screen capture) OCEAN TOWNSHIP, New Jersey — The man who turned the Crazy Eddie electronics stores into a retail giant before it collapsed amid federal fraud charges has died. Nearly 30 years after the fact, the. "Crazy" Eddie Antar. Mr. e. business. Crazy Eddie Fraud Case. Today, Eddie Antar's cousin Sam E. DEBORAH ROSEN ANTAR, Eddie’s first wife, divorced Eddie in 1984. “Crazy” Eddie Antar, dubbed the “Darth Vader of Capitalism” by the then-United StatesThe massacre was a real bean-spiller, and it was followed by the testimony of Eddie’s first cousin (and partner and C. Antar is the nephew of the late Eddie Antar — the proprietor of Crazy Eddie’s electronic retailers that were ubiquitous in the Northeast in the 1970s and 1980s. My name is Sam E.