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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 Adulterer 2014 07/16/14: Indicted Former Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff was bribed by Overstock.com […]

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 This is the story of how I exposed Overstock.com’s accounting fraud and faced a vicious backlash from its CEO Patrick M. Byrne. Overstock.com (NASDAQ: OSTK) is an online retailer that repeatedly violated accounting rules and overstated its

Interviews and Mentions January 17, 2022: The New Yorker – Jordan Thomas’s Army of Whistle-blowers, New Yorker, By Patrick Radden Keefe Antar is part of what Thomas describes as an “underground whistle-blower support network”—a loose fraternity of lawyers, accountants, and ex-law-enforcement types. The network sounds reminiscent of his father’s phone book: in any business, there is a premium on always

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 interview on Bloomberg’s Odd

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 perpetrating one of the

Interviews and Mentions November 2009: Newsweek 20/10 – Bernie Madoff’s Giant Ponzi Scheme, By Sam Antar Madoff was a serial economic predator for 20 years and the only reason he stopped was because he got caught. He didn’t get caught because of the SEC and the auditors. It was our imploding financial system. More than three quarters of these kinds

Interviews and Mentions December 28, 2011: Seven Days (Vermont’s Independent Weekly) – Whatever Happened To….?, By Andy Bromage But one bean counter smelled trouble. Sam E. Antar, the accountant who cooked the books at appliance chain Crazy Eddie in the 1980s, claimed he had discovered numerous accounting “irregularities” in GMCR’s financial filings. He posted them on his blog, White Collar

Interviews and Mentions October 31, 2012: The Village Voice – Country Club Sopranos – American banks are on a massive crime spree. Obama and Romney hope you won’t notice, By Pete Kotz In a sense, Holder has granted the industry its own version of juvenile court. No matter how pervasive the crime, no matter how many thousands of victims, the