Politicians fighting Elon Musk’s DOGE should set off alarms, forensic accountant says
February 21, 2025: Former Crazy Eddie CFO Sam Antar joins ‘Making Money’ host Charles Payne to discuss Elon Musk’s effort to root out government waste and fraud.
How Crazy Eddie’s Sam Antar Built a Scam
On September 19, 2019, the Bloomberg Odd Lots podcast hosted its first-ever live event at the WNYC Greene Space in downtown New York City. With an all-star lineup of guests, the show featured convicted white-collar criminal Sam Antar, a panel on sovereign debt with Lee Buccheit and Brad Setser, and a discussion on MMT with Stephanie Kelton. We even had a surprise guest, SPY kid Kevin McGrath, not to mention two musical acts: country-singing economist Merle Hazard and a performance by Joe himself.
Hosted by Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway
A Convicted Felon Explains How He Pulled Off An Infamous Accounting Fraud
May 20, 2019: If you lived in NYC a few decades ago, you probably have heard of Crazy Eddie, an electronics retailer that was famous for its outlandish ads on TV. What most people didn’t know until after it went public, is that the company was built on financial fraud. In this week’s episode of the Odd Lots podcast, we speak with its former CFO Sam Antar about the company’s shenanigans, and how it all came undone. – Bloomberg
White Collar Crime 101: How to Defraud a Company
July 29, 2014: Sam Antar is a self-described white collar criminal. He was part of the Crazy Eddie electronics stores scam of the late ’80s, but now is hired to speak to companies about fraud. Here he explains how successful fraud works. – Wall Street Journal Live
Sam Antar Discusses Sarbanes Oxley on Kudlow & Company CNBC
November 22, 2006: Interview: John Rutledge of Rutledge Capital, Gary Shilling of A. Gary Shilling & Company, John Augustine of Fifth Third Asset Management, economist Ben Stein, and Sam E. Antar, formerly of Crazy Eddie Inc., discuss Sarbanes-Oxley
Inside the Mind of a Financial Criminal
In the seventies and eighties, the Antar family ran Crazy Eddie, a popular electronics chain known for its frenetic commercials.
The business was crooked from the start, but the fraud got more serious when the family took the company public in the 1984. In 1987, the Securities and Exchange Commission investigated the family and discovered years of inflated profits and overstated income.
On today’s show, one of the masterminds of the fraud, Eddie’s cousin Sam Antar, explains how they did it and why it worked for so long.