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 ...

If you lived in New Jersey or New York in the 1980s, it would be hard to forget “Crazy Eddie.” The retail electronics chain was famous for its loud and goofy commercials featuring radio ...

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 ...

Anyone who grew up in the New York/New Jersey area in the ’70s and ’80s remembers Crazy Eddie. It was an electronics retail store chain that had the most memorable and obnoxious commercials ever. So ...

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 ...

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 ...

STATEN ISLAND ,N.Y. -- “Crazy Eddie, his prices are IN-SA-A-A-A-NE!” Many people bought their first stereos and other electronics at Crazy Eddie’s, which was located in the Richmond Avenue Shopping ...

How bad is the worst thing you’ve ever done at work? Maybe you “borrowed” a few pens and paper for your kids. Perhaps, you “fudged” some expenses. And maybe you now feel guilty about such petty ...

In “Retail Gangster,” Gary Weiss explores the life and sketchy business practices of Eddie Antar, whose commercials are the stuff of legend. By Alexandra Jacobs RETAIL GANGSTER: The Insane, Real-Life ...

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 ...

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 ...