Crazy Eddie was a consumer electronics chain in the Northeastern United States. The chain was started in 1971 in New York, New York, by businessmen Eddie and Sam M. Antar, and was previously named ERS Electronics (ERS stood for Eddie, Rose and Sam; Rose and Sam were Eddie's parents).

Sep 11, 2016 · 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, died...

Aug 27, 2022 · The rise and spectacular fall of the chain, and its CEO Eddie Antar is the subject of a the book Retail Gangster: The INSANE, Real-Life Story of CRAZY EDDIE by investigative journalist Gary Weiss.

Sep 10, 2022 · Crazy Eddie Antar, the man behind the Crazy Eddie retail chain, filed for bankruptcy in 1989 and fled the country with six passports (in five different names) and around $43 million in cash.

Jul 10, 2023 · The Crazy Eddie saga appeared to end in 2016 when its founder Eddie Antar died at 68. But even in death, the entrepreneur was still causing chaos and confusion.

Mar 31, 2016 · 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...

Sep 17, 2016 · Michael Schulman on the death of Eddie Antar, the entrepreneur and huckster who founded the electronics chain Crazy Eddie and was later imprisoned.

In the mid-1980s, Eddie Antar and several of his family members were accused of running a massive financial scam. Since day one, skimming cash sales had been part of the business plan. Managers...

Apr 20, 2023 · Crazy Eddie achieved fame for zany commercials and low priced electronics, but became infamous after they were found to have committed one of the biggest frauds in US history. The fraud spanned 18 years.

Jun 20, 2022 · The Crazy Rise of "Crazy Eddie" Eddie Antar, then 22, opened his first electronics store in 1969 in Brooklyn. In his typical "tough guy" suburban sweatpants, the balding young man knew that stores with speakers, VCRs, and TVs would become a point of attraction for Americans.