In this episode we're talking about one of the biggest retail frauds in American History. Eddie Antar and his family made wild moves to keep "Crazy Eddie" electronics stores at the top of the stock market charts, but the money wasn't enough to keep family feuds from bringing the whole empire down. 

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Music:

The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod

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Sources:

https://money.cnn.com/2014/11/17/investing/fraud-wall-street-crazy-eddie/

https://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/21/business/crazy-eddie-founder-guilty-of-fraud.html

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2016/09/12/crazy-eddie-dead-age-68/90265658/

https://whitecollarfraud.com/crazy-eddie/crazy-eddie-fraud/

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/nyregion/the-public-face-of-crazy-eddie-recalls-the-real-one.html

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/crazy-eddie-antars-not-so-insane-view-of-the-world

https://www.city-journal.org/html/his-life-was-insane-14743.html

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/282251

https://apnews.com/article/fd4cf5baad1b6e5e79c21b752dd247b6

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1989/07/16/the-electrifying-end-of-crazy-eddie/164dc3d1-fdca-45d0-a228-96faefbbcea7/

https://www.worth.com/why-the-cfo-of-a-famously-corrupt-company-from-the-1980s-is-working-for-the-government/

Wells, Joseph T. Frankensteins of Fraud: The 20th Century's Top Ten White-Collar Criminals. Obsidian Pub. Co., 2000