When you compare whatever you did to what happened at long-gone electronics chain Crazy Eddie, most malfeasance will likely pale into insignificance. Put another way, your infractions would likely be as noticeable as a miniature barnacle on the backside of a blue whale.

...The Antar clan emigrated from Syria, which Weiss says partly explains the grey attitude towards paying taxes. Indeed, scamming New York State of sales taxes was how the Crazy Eddie debacle started.

However, it was when Sam Antar learned the in-and-outs of Wall Street, finance and public accounting, that the fraud really ramped up. Gone was dodging sales tax. In was cooking the company’s books and going public. Sam Antar had figured out that the family could make even 1more money by falsely boosting profits to help push the stock price higher.

Once the fraud was exposed, and Eddie Antar was charged with securities fraud and insider trading, but fled the country, Sammy offered to testify as long as he had immunity. //

Since 2009, Sam Antar has been a forensic accountant, working with federal and local law enforcement agencies, teaching them what to look for in paperwork - and where to look for paperwork - as well as digging on his own time into waste, fraud, and abuse, always on the hunt for white collar crime.

He is a man on a mission.

And way back in February, while going through the records from Letitia James' 'luxury campaign spending,' as he calls it, Sam came across some wonky-looking personal finance filings. Things weren't adding up to the eagle-eyed Antar. //

After our recent investigations exposed New York Attorney General Letitia James’ pattern of luxury campaign spending and creative accounting, a deeper examination of her personal financial disclosures reveals troubling new questions about her property holdings and financial reporting.

The same pattern of obscured luxury that characterized her campaign spending now emerges in her personal financial statements, starting with a Virginia investment property that seems to defy financial logic. Purchased in August 2020, James values the single-family home at “$100,000 to under $150,000” in her 2023 financial disclosure. Yet somehow, this same property carries mortgages totaling up to $400,000 – potentially more than twice its declared value. //

Sam E. Antar @SamAntar
Memo to @NewYorkStateAG Letitia James: I know every trick in the book. Every trick that’s been left out of the book. And every trick you’re thinking about doing but haven’t done yet.
11:44 PM · Apr 21, 2025. //

When a guy's already done time for legendary crazy, there's not much he's going to worry about when he's on the right trail of wrongdoing.

This is gonna be sumpthin' to see.