(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 ...

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STARTING OUT Weiss got his start at the Hartford Courant, covering small-town Connecticut. He later moved to a wire service in Washington, D.C., where his role was “business editor of some kind.” That ...

Late last year Upper East Side resident Sam A. Antar started calling friends in the Syrian Jewish community around Deal, N.J., saying he could get them shares in Uber, Lyft and other unicorns before ...

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 ...

New Yorkers are trying to kill the invasive creatures, but their efforts may be futile. By James Barron In “Retail Gangster,” Gary Weiss explores the life and sketchy business practices of Eddie Antar ...