Crazy Eddie

Lauren Sforza and NJ.com Smeared Me to Protect Letitia James

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On April 14, 2025, NJ.com and the Associated Press published an article by reporter Lauren Sforza that attempted to discredit my independent reporting on New York Attorney General Letitia James. The article falsely implied that I, Sam E. Antar, have a recent history of criminal fraud and that I am acting on behalf of Donald Trump. Both claims are categorically […]

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Crazy Eddie’s Hidden Ledger: A CFO’s Confession

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The Art of Obstruction As CFO of Crazy Eddie during the 1980s, I orchestrated what would become one of retail’s most notorious financial frauds. Our approach to covering our tracks was methodical and two-pronged. First came destruction. Our office shredders operated around the clock, turning potentially incriminating documents into confetti. But for the mountain of paperwork we couldn’t immediately destroy,

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, Crime, Memoirs

A Christmas Eve in Brooklyn: When Life Turned on a Dime

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On Christmas Eve 1990, life’s precarious nature revealed itself to me in ways I never expected. As the former CFO of Crazy Eddie who had recently agreed to cooperate with federal authorities, I was already living through a period of profound change. Yet nothing could have prepared me for how events would unfold that evening at my brother’s furniture store

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, , Crime, Memoirs
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