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Sam Antar

Media – 2020

Favorite Media Interviews and Mentions

October 2, 2020: Bizcommunity – Auditor’s responsibilities relating to fraud – part 1, By Hayley Barker Hoogwerf

Antar also said: “Don’t trust, just verify, verify, verify. The inclination to trust and the presumption of innocence gives the fraudsters the initial benefit of any doubt while they are free to plan and execute their crimes.”

Professional scepticism and cynicism are key for auditors to positively contribute to detecting and therefore combating fraud. To succeed in adding value in identifying fraud, auditors must have a questioning mind and keep on asking questions until they are satisfied that they have the answers.

August 12, 2020: Forbes – After Government Recommendation Of Probation, Man Who Sparked ‘Varsity Blues’ Investigation Gets Prison, By Walt Pavlo

Sam Antar, a star witness and cooperator in the Crazy Eddie financial fraud, once told me, “When it comes to being sentenced to prison, it’s not how good a person you may have otherwise been in life, it’s who you’ve cooperated against.” Nothing was more true than the sentencing of Morrie Tobin in Boston.

July 7, 2020: Fox News – NYC sees stunning lightning from thunderstorms, flash floods in Northeast amid stormy week, By Travis Fedschun

Video posted to Twitter by Sam E Antar from Pier 62 at Hudson River Park in Manhattan showed the storms moving in.

Spectacular thunderstorm over Hudson River and NJ viewed from Pier 62 Chelsea Piers NYC pic.twitter.com/7Hs2B9irGr

— Sam E. Antar (@SamAntar) July 6, 2020

January 23, 2020: Quartz – Most of us are “risk illiterate”—but we can fix that, By Meghan McDonough

In the first episode of RISK, a series made exclusively for Quartz members, we meet Sam Antar, former CFO of Crazy Eddie and self-proclaimed “professional bullshit artist.” Then we travel to the world’s first Center for Risk Literacy in Berlin to learn why most of us are “risk illiterate” and how, precisely, we can change that.

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  • A Convicted Felon Explains How He Pulled Off An Infamous Accounting Fraud (Podcast) – Bloomberg, May 20, 2019
  • Crazy Eddie CFO: ‘We are in the golden era of white-collar crime’ – CNN Inside Wall Street, November 17, 2014
  • Crazy Eddie fraudster says SEC can’t keep up – MarketWatch, June 7, 2013
  • Crazy Eddie’s cousin stars in state Republican hearing on public corruption – Atlantic City Press, August 17, 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 Sam Sees Greater Potential for Fraud – Accounting Today, June 29, 2012
  • Crazy Eddie’s Insanely Successful Criminal Enterprise – Mental_Floss, March 31, 2016
  • 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
  • Convicted Felon, Former Crazy Eddie CFO, Sam Antar, Talks to Lauren Lyster About Accounting Fraud – Zero Hedge, August 3, 2012
  • Country Club Sopranos – Village Voice, October 31, 2012
  • A Few Words from a Fellow Fraudster – Gawker, December 24, 2008
  • Financial fraud — accounting for criminals – CNN, October 9, 2009
  • How to Be a Better Bean Counter – NY Times, July 16, 2005
  • Inside the Always Nasty, Frequently Sexist, and Often Litigious World of Financial Twitter – Institutional Investor, August 1, 2018
  • Inside the Mind of a Financial Criminal – NPR Planet Money, July 5, 2011
  • ‘On Like Donkey Kong’: How a Dubious Super PAC Boosted a Questionable Penny Stock – ProPublica, May 27, 2016
  • Redemption and the white-collar criminal – CNN, October 2, 2009
  • Sam Antar: The CFO behind the Crazy Eddie’s fraud – MarketWatch, July 29, 2014
  • Smart Stops on the Web – Journal of Accountancy, December 1, 2008
  • Special Report: From Hannibal Lecter to Bernie Madoff – Reuters, April 20, 2011
  • Still Searching for Repentance – Jewish Week/Times of Israel, September 22, 2009
  • 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
  • White Collar Crime 101: How to Defraud a Company – Wall Street Journal, July 29, 2014
  • Why criminals never think they’ll get caught: The Crazy Eddie story – LinkedIn Pulse, April 5, 2019
  • Why Drug Lords and Criminals Are So Risk-Averse – Bloomberg, February 21, 2014
  • 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
  • Why the CFO of a Famously Corrupt Company from the 1980s is Working for the Government – Worth, August 14, 2019

Overstock.com Fraud

  • Overstock.com Accounting Fraud
  • White Collar Fraud Blog Archive – Overstock.com
  • 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, by Aaron Elstein, Crain’s NY Business, October 5, 2009
  • Overstock.com Chief Executive Resigns, Wall Street Journal, August 22, 2019
  • Contemporary Auditing, 11th Edition, by Michael C. Knapp, Section 2.11: Overstock.com
  • Selling America Short: The SEC and Market Contrarians in the Age of Absurdity, by Richard Sauer, Chapter 12: The Overstock Flame Wars

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