It really is a crazy story – as in ‘Crazy Eddie‘ of New York fame.
If you’re from the Tri-State area, hearing that brings back memories of lunacy laced commercials for a retail electronics chain. Damn near every time they played, they’d blow out your TV speakers, with the shouted, frantic tagline ending them.
COME TO CRAZY EDDIE’S! HIS PRICES ARE INSANE!!!
They were mostly monster manic, but I did manage to find you a tame one.
Anyway, the guys who owned the business were from a family of Syrian immigrants: Eddie Antar, the “crazy Eddie” in the commercials, and his Chief Financial Officer was his cousin, Sam.
Crazy Eddie’s had been successful enough that the guys took the company public. What happened has become a business fraud legend.
Sam Antar, it turned out, had a natural affinity for…
