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The Real Eddie: His Scamming Is Insaaaaane!

4/9/202630 min

The rise and spectacular fall of Eddie Antar, the electronics mogul behind the Crazy Eddie brand. Who scammed his way from the streets of Brooklyn to Wall Street and then vanished without a trace.

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Clips

Stuffing Cash, Planning Escape
Crime’s First Rule, Family
The Plan: Pump And Bail
Eight Bucks And An Empty Cabinet
Great Criminal, Bad Fugitive
Behind The Mascot’s Madness

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Sam E. Antar· Soundbite0:00

    There's an easy way to get train tickets. Book from anywhere, like...

  2. Gary Weiss· Guest0:03

    Here.

  3. Sam E. Antar· Soundbite0:06

    Here.

  4. Speaker 20:06

    We don't recommend here.

  5. Eddie Antar· Soundbite0:10

    All right, one more time.

  6. Josh Dean· Host0:11

    Lots of people do it here.

  7. Eddie Antar· Soundbite0:13

    Let's go.

  8. Sam E. Antar· Soundbite0:14

    We've heard some people even buy from here.

  9. Eddie Antar· Soundbite0:17

    Mission Control, we have booked the tickets.

  10. Speaker 50:20

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  11. Speaker 21:00

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