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Overstock.com Fraud

Blog Overstock.com Accounting Fraud - My three year battle to make Overstock.com comply with accounting rules and the vicious retaliation campaign its CEO Patrick M. Byrne unleashed against me, August 22, 2011 White Collar Fraud Blog Archive Articles Overstock.com faces another shoddy accounting challenge, Stockwatch, February 20, 2009 Crazy Like A Fox, Guess … [Read more...] about Overstock.com Fraud

White Collar Fraud Blog – Overstock.com

White Collar Fraud Blog  - Overstock.com (NASDAQ: OSTK) 2017 12/20/17: Thanks to Marc Cohodes, We’re Back to the Bad Old Days at Overstock.com 11/27/17: Marc Cohodes Buys Stock & Vanishes From Overstock CEO’s Smear Site 2015 03/30/15: Overstock.com Hatchet Man Judd Bagley's Downward Spiral: Junkie, Confessed Criminal, Admitted … [Read more...] about White Collar Fraud Blog – Overstock.com

Overstock.com Accounting Fraud

Overstock.com EBITDA Calculation Errors

My three year battle to make Overstock.com comply with accounting rules and the vicious retaliation campaign its CEO Patrick M. Byrne unleashed against me Over the last several years, my blog exposed a pattern of accounting shenanigans which helped Overstock.com (NASDAQ: OSTK), also known as O.co, materially overstate its earnings. From Q2 2007 to Q2 2008, the company used … [Read more...] about Overstock.com Accounting Fraud

Media – 2019

Favorite Media Interviews and Mentions December 24, 2019: Quartz - 2019: The year in heists and capers, By Tim Fernholz Audio Bonus: The Crazy Eddie heist that went too well People came to Crazy Eddie’s discount electronics stores because of their famously kooky commercials—but did you know it was, from start-to-finish, a massive financial crime? In a fascinating … [Read more...] about Media – 2019

Media – 2018

Favorite Media Interviews and Mentions September 16, 2018: Deadline Hollywood - Entertainment One Goes ‘Insane’ For Movie On Crooked Discount Appliance Sales King Crazy Eddie, By Mike Fleming Jr EXCLUSIVE: Entertainment One has set up Insane, a film based on the wild life of Eddie Antar, the late consumer electronics king who wound up serving six years in prison for … [Read more...] about Media – 2018

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Book

  • Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie, by Gary Weiss, Hachette Books, August 23, 2022
  • Crazy Eddie, The Criminal Show, March 17, 2023
  • New book explores the insane career of Syrian Jewish hustler ‘Crazy Eddie’ Antar, Times of Israel, September 14, 2022
  • Retail king Crazy Eddie was a high school dropout who once got stabbed outside a nightclub, New York Post, September 10, 2022
  • ‘Retail Gangster’ Review: Let’s Make a Deal, Wall Street Journal, August 22, 2022
  • Crazy Eddie’s Life Was Insane!, New York Times, August 9, 2022

White-Collar Crime

  • Jordan Thomas’s Army of Whistle-blowers, The New Yorker, January 17, 2022
  • Why the CFO of a Famously Corrupt Company from the 1980s is Working for the Government – Worth, August 14, 2019
  • A Convicted Felon Explains How He Pulled Off An Infamous Accounting Fraud (Podcast) – Bloomberg, May 20, 2019
  • Why criminals never think they’ll get caught: The Crazy Eddie story – LinkedIn Pulse, April 5, 2019
  • Inside the Always Nasty, Frequently Sexist, and Often Litigious World of Financial Twitter – Institutional Investor, August 1, 2018
  • Why is Bank Leumi telling foreigners to close their accounts? And what’s the link to Israel’s malignant black economy? – The Times of Israel, September 12, 2016
  • ‘On Like Donkey Kong’: How a Dubious Super PAC Boosted a Questionable Penny Stock – ProPublica, May 27, 2016
  • Crazy Eddie’s Insanely Successful Criminal Enterprise – Mental_Floss, March 31, 2016
  • Crazy Eddie CFO: ‘We are in the golden era of white-collar crime’ – CNN Inside Wall Street, November 17, 2014
  • White Collar Crime 101: How to Defraud a Company – Wall Street Journal, July 29, 2014
  • Sam Antar: The CFO behind the Crazy Eddie’s fraud – MarketWatch, July 29, 2014
  • Why Drug Lords and Criminals Are So Risk-Averse – Bloomberg, February 21, 2014
  • Country Club Sopranos – Village Voice, October 31, 2012
  • Crazy Eddie fraudster says SEC can’t keep up – MarketWatch, June 7, 2013
  • Convicted Felon, Former Crazy Eddie CFO, Sam Antar, Talks to Lauren Lyster About Accounting Fraud – Zero Hedge, August 3, 2012
  • Crazy Eddie’s Cousin Sam Sees Greater Potential for Fraud – Accounting Today, June 29, 2012
  • The 25 Most Dangerous People in Financial Media – Huffington Post, June 18, 2012
  • When Sam Antar Speaks, People Listen…and Speak Their Mind – Forbes, March 5, 2012
  • Inside the Mind of a Financial Criminal – NPR Planet Money, July 5, 2011
  • Special Report: From Hannibal Lecter to Bernie Madoff – Reuters, April 20, 2011
  • Financial fraud — accounting for criminals – CNN, October 9, 2009
  • Crazy Like A Fox, Guess who’s tipping off the SEC on alleged accounting frauds? None other than the guy who cooked the books at Crazy Eddie – Crain’s NY Business, October 5, 2009 (PDF)
  • Redemption and the white-collar criminal – CNN, October 2, 2009 (PDF)
  • Still Searching for Repentance – Jewish Week/Times of Israel, September 22, 2009
  • ‘Crazy’ Eddie’s Cousin, a Former Fraudster, Speaks Out on Syrian ‘Subculture of Crime’ – Jewish Daily Forward, August 26, 2009
  • Crazy Eddie’s cousin stars in state Republican hearing on public corruption – Atlantic City Press, August 17, 2009
  • A Few Words from a Fellow Fraudster – Gawker, December 24, 2008
  • Smart Stops on the Web – Journal of Accountancy, December 1, 2008
  • How to Be a Better Bean Counter – NY Times, July 16, 2005
  • So That’s Why It’s Called a Pyramid Scheme, Journal of Accountancy, October 1, 2000

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