Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three decades after it collapsed under the immense weight of a historic securities fraud, the true-life legend of ...

Ricky Mulvey talked with Gary Weiss, author of Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie, about topics including: Why investors bought into Eddie Antar's hype. How criminals save ...

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 ...

(JTA) — Crazy Eddie was a consumer electronics empire built on hype. Entrepreneur Eddie Antar grew his chain of discounts stores in the New York of the 1970s with unforgettably loud TV commercials, a ...

The Web site claims his knack for choosing an appropriate dinner wine was one of his responsibilities as "a board member for a worldwide corporation." And we wonder why the Enron and Tyco debacles ...

Note: Before a 33-year career in journalism, reporter William Westhoven spent seven years working for Crazy Eddie, finishing as a store manager in 1987. He previously broke the news of Eddie Antar's ...