Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three decades after it collapsed under the immense weight of a historic securities fraud, the true-life legend of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Founded by Eddie Antar, Crazy Eddie was a chain of consumer electronic stores in the Northeast. After going public in the 1980s, the stock became nearly a 10-bagger before investigators found it to be ...

Long ago and far away, when the Subway cost 50 cents, and a gallon of gas about the same … when there were just six commercial TV stations, and all 16 million of us in New York seemed glued to them ...

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 ...