Posted on 04/28/2025 5:43:39 PM PDT by Libloather
EXCLUSIVE: New York Attorney General Letitia James, who became President Donald Trump's nemesis after accusing him of mortgage fraud, is now battling the very same allegations, and her chief tormentor is a legendary scam artist who says he knows a crook when he sees one.
Sam Antar, who kept the books for his cousin, "Crazy Eddie" Antar, while he built a New York-area consumer electronics empire, helped his late relative skim cash and inflate the value of their company before leaving investors high and dry in the late 1980s. He says he knows every trick in the fraud book and smells a rat in James' real estate filings.
"I don't know how the wheels of justice will turn and, to be frank, I don't care as long as I'm right," said Antar, who has made his findings public. "If they fail to convict her, it's their humiliation and their embarrassment."
Antar pleaded guilty to multiple felonies, cooperating with prosecutors to help convict his cousin, whose chain's ads featured a maniacal pitchman pledging, "Our prices are insane!" While Eddie Antar fled to Israel, was extradited back to the U.S. and served time before dying in 2016, Sam Antar reinvented himself as a fraud expert for government agencies and law firms. He runs a website where he posts about his various investigations.
In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, Antar said he worked alone and was the first to unearth documentation of James’ alleged mortgage fraud and posted it to his White Collar Fraud website weeks ago.
He said the strength of his findings, backed by his renowned reputation in the field of uncovering white-collar fraud for the government, eventually led to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) picking up the case and sending a criminal referral to the Justice Department.
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I don’t recall a Crazy Eddie fraud or scam.
I really miss him. Bought our first portable phone from him.. with a 36 inch whip antenna!
Curtis Mathes for our TVs, Carvel for our ice cream and fright night for our late night tv.
My God it was such a better time.
Back in the 90’s through the early 2000 years, Burton Gilliam was selling cars (commercials) in the Dallas (Texas y’all) area while wearing the outfit he wore in Blazing Saddles.
Crazy Eddie was a complete crook, and his cousin helped manufacture the spectacular financial fraud.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Eddie
Still have the Marantz 120 watt/channel receiver bought at his emporium
Yeah, what was the scam? He had awesome deals.
Anyone who does not know this story should just go look it up . Sam and Eddie were scammers. Sam is a good person to have on this case. Tish James will have to be prosecuted. Too much fraud to ignore.
I was up in Marin county in the early ‘70s, I saw Cal Worthington commercials all the time... And this soft-spoken dude selling water beds. Those commercials ran all night long. I’m not sure if we were watching Elvira or not, it all sorta runs together nowadays....
Water bed commercials! I forgot about those. I actually bought one in 1978 and it hurt my back so much I got rid of it right away. Something that seemed so right in concept!
Curtis Mathis television? You are really dating yourself!
Yeah, those are the ones I remember.
DuMont TVs were manufactured by DuMont Laboratories, founded by Allen B. DuMont in 1931. The company began producing television sets in 1938, with the Model 180, the first all-electronic consumer television receiver, sold in June 1938 for $395–$445 ($8,895-$10,022 in 2025!), featuring a 14-inch screen. DuMont was a pioneer in cathode ray tube (CRT) technology, extending CRT life from 24 to 1,000 hours, making TVs practical for consumers
No way! They had Curtis mathes tvs in Total Recall!
It’ll be on Mars. I promise that.
My dad taught me about tubes as well. The person I actually learned?
Don’t touch it. RF burns are serious, life altering injuries
I remember always being scared when dad would open up the back of the tv and dig into its guts. With his instruction and horror stories, I just KNEW he was going to get hurt or die.
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