CORRECTION: In a Jan. 30 FanFare article about old TV commercials, a quote attributed to Crazy Eddie pitchman Jerry Carroll about the chain’s ad campaign was incorrect. The quote should have ...

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 ...

In the mid-1980s, Crazy Eddie became entangled in one of the largest fraud scandals in United States history. The scheme persisted for 18 years. If you’ve never heard of Crazy Eddie, also known ...

Eddie Antar, the founder of the Crazy Eddie electronics retail chain known for its hugely popular TV commercials in the 1970s and 1980s, and later brought down by a massive fraud scheme ...

It’s the first face-to-face meeting in 20 years between cousins Eddie and Sam Antar, the founder and chief financial officer, respectively, of the Crazy Eddie electronics stores. The chain of 43 ...

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 ...

Read the footnotes first. Tiny things can be huge. In the Crazy Eddie fraud, the change of a single word (from "purchase discounts and trade allowances are recognized when received" to "recognized ...

The Crazy Eddie electronics chain, at its peak, numbered a respectable 43 stores from Philadelphia to Boston, but in the mid-1980s the discount retailer enjoyed an astonishing 99% name recognition ...

Sam Antar, 57, is a felon and former certified public accountant who helped perpetrate one of the largest securities frauds of the 1980s at Crazy Eddie, a chain of electronics stores based in New ...

PHILADELPHIA (CNN) - Eddie Antar, the founder of the Crazy Eddie electronics retail chain known for its hugely popular TV commercials in the 1970s and 1980s, and later brought down by a massive ...