Three decades after it collapsed under the immense weight of a historic securities fraud, the true-life legend of consumer-electronics king "Crazy Eddie" Antar is still embedded in the popular culture ...

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 ...

Late last year Upper East Side resident Sam A. Antar started calling friends in the Syrian Jewish community around Deal, N.J., saying he could get them shares in Uber, Lyft and other unicorns before ...

New Yorkers are trying to kill the invasive creatures, but their efforts may be futile. By James Barron In “Retail Gangster,” Gary Weiss explores the life and sketchy business practices of Eddie Antar ...

Elias Zinn these days is wearing a new moustache. The president of Crazy Eddie, the electronic retailer, started growing the hair on his upper lip in a wager with his top company officials. He says ...

(JTA) — Crazy Eddie was a consumer electronics empire built on hype. Entrepreneur Eddie Antar grew his chain of discounts stores in the New York of the 1970s with unforgettably loud TV commercials, a ...

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 ...

My buddy Paul just e-mailed me this link to a Crazy Eddie tribute page. It even has video. As Eddie himself was so fond of yelling, "Go there nowwwww!" If you purchase a product or register for an ...

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 ...

Note: Before a 33-year career in journalism, reporter William Westhoven spent seven years working for Crazy Eddie, finishing as a store manager in 1987. He previously broke the news of Eddie Antar's ...