STARTING OUT Weiss got his start at the Hartford Courant, covering small-town Connecticut. He later moved to a wire service in Washington, D.C., where his role was “business editor of some kind.” That ...

In the mid-1980s, Crazy Eddie became entangled in one of the largest fraud scandals in United States history. The scheme persisted for 18 years. If you’ve never heard of Crazy Eddie, also known as ...

Author Gary Weiss joins the podcast to talk about this colorful stock scam. Founded by Eddie Antar, Crazy Eddie was a chain of consumer electronic stores in the Northeast. After going public in the ...

If you lived in New Jersey or New York in the 1980s, it would be hard to forget “Crazy Eddie.” The retail electronics chain was famous for its loud and goofy commercials featuring radio ...

Sam A. Antar, nephew of the crook behind the epic Crazy Eddie scam, last week settled a federal securities-fraud case from his New Jersey prison cell. Antar, a former Upper East Side resident, agreed ...

STATEN ISLAND ,N.Y. -- “Crazy Eddie, his prices are IN-SA-A-A-A-NE!” Many people bought their first stereos and other electronics at Crazy Eddie’s, which was located in the Richmond Avenue Shopping ...

Eddie Antar was an entrepreneur who realized the highs of business success as well as the lows of fraud and running from authorities. You might not recognize his name, but if you were alive in the ...

If you lived in the tri-state area in the 1970s and ‘80s, those four words just triggered the memory of Jerry Carroll frenetically hawking Crazy Eddie in TV commercials that can’t be forgotten — no ...

How bad is the worst thing you’ve ever done at work? Maybe you “borrowed” a few pens and paper for your kids. Perhaps, you “fudged” some expenses. And maybe you now feel guilty about such petty ...

If you lived in the tri-state area in the 1970s and ‘80s, those four words just triggered the memory of Jerry Carroll frenetically hawking Crazy Eddie in TV commercials that can’t be forgotten — no ...