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 ...

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 York during the ’70s and ‘80s, the “Crazy Eddie” commercials were as ubiquitous as they were annoying. Plugging a chain of discount electronics stores by the same name, the spots ...

For anyone living in the New York metropolitan area throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Crazy Eddie was inescapable. A chain of electronics stores that eventually spread to 43 locations across four states ...

(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 ...