• Sam Antar on Green Mountain: Inventory Changes Signal Trouble

    Sam Antar, former CFO of Crazy Eddie, a massive fraud in the 1980s, has been following Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR) for a long time. He has pointed out red flags of fraud over and over, and the current problem […]

  • Conservatism is no excuse for false financial statements, Overstock.com

    I’ve written extensively in the past about the train wreck that is Overstock.com (NASDAQ:OSTK) and its nutty CEO, Patrick Byrne.  Just when I think there couldn’t possibly be more to write about the horrible company and Byrne’s crazy antics, I’m […]

  • The Journal of Accountancy recommends Sam Antar’s blog

    For the Journal of Accountancy’s “Smart Stops on the Web” column: IT TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE www.whitecollarfraud.blogspot.com Who knows fraud better than a fraudster? Sam E. Antar, former Crazy Eddie Inc. CFO and convicted felon, shares his views and […]

  • Fortune on Sam Antar – Takes One to Know One

    The December 24 issue of Fortune magazine has an article on Sam E. Antar, the man most widely known as the former CFO of Crazy Eddie, a New York City electronics retailer that went down in flames in 1987 after […]

  • Herb Greenberg on Crazy Eddie Antar

    Herb Greenbergs thinks the former CEO of Comverse Technology, Jacob “Kobi” Alexander can learn a thing or two from Eddie Antar. Alexandar fled the United States with his family, going to Namibia, allegedly with over $57 million transferred out of […]

  • Crazy Eddie v. Sam E. Antar

    Decades after their crimes, Crazy Eddie and Sam E. Antar meet face to face. The two were a the helm of a huge fraud called Crazy Eddie’s. The story will be on Business Nation on June 27. Here’s the promo […]