Crazy Eddie: Part 2 - "The Chosen One" 

From 1975 to 1980, Sam attended Bernard M. Baruch College and majored in public accounting. Eddie Antar and other family members believed that his formal college education in public accounting would help them execute more sophisticated financial crimes in the future. Therefore, the family paid his tuition as well as a full-time salary while he attended college. He continued working at Crazy Eddie at nights, weekends, holiday breaks and even summer vacation.

In 1980, Sam graduated Magna Cum Laude and was on the Dean’s List. The Antars were ready to take full advantage of his accounting education by making him Crazy Eddie’s de facto Chief Financial Officer. This position allowed him to execute more sophisticated crimes on behalf of the family.

Sam Antar is a convicted felon and a former CPA. As the CFO of Crazy Eddie, Mr. Antar helped mastermind one of the largest securities frauds uncovered during the 1980s.

In June 2012, the Huffington Post named Sam Antar one of the 25 most dangerous people in financial media (“dangerous in a good way”).