65: Crazy Eddie; Or, This Tax Fraud Is Insane! (Classic)

Are you looking for a story that is 100% guaranteed to blow your mind? A true crime tale that'll leave you wondering how crooks got away with it for so long in the first place? Well, hold on to your girdle, because this one's a doozy. It's got everything: insurance scams, fake passports, an undercover sting operation, Israeli really bank accounts, and huge sales on some of the best TVs and VCRs around (sales tax not included). Best of all, you can listen to this story for the low, low price of FREE! Now that price is insane! Ray teaches Rob about how a mom-and-pop consumer electronics store went from being a tri-state curiosity to a national sensation; who the real man is behind all those infamous ads; why having a CPA in the family comes in handy when you're committing tax fraud; and why building an empire on a foundation of shady financials and skimming off the top probably isn't the best business model. If you like what we are doing, please support us on Patreon. TEAM Ray Hebel Robert W. Schneider Mark Schroeder Billy Recce Daniel Schwartzberg Gabe Crawford Natalie DeSavia WEBSITE White Collar Fraud ARTICLES Mental Floss New York Times - 1985 New York Times - 2016 (1) New York Times - 2016 (2) New Yorker NJ.com Washington Post EPISODE CLIPS 1987 Crazy Eddie Commercial Crazy Eddie 'Insane!' Commercial (NY, 1978) Classic Crazy Eddie Commercial 'Bathroom DooWop' (1977-1979) Crazy Eddie Commercials and Bloopers 1980's 1972 Crazy Eddie Radio Commercial for Brooklyn store The Biggest Retail Fraud In American History - Masterminds - Crazy Eddie - Eddie Antar Documentary Crazy Eddie Fever commercial 1978 Crazy Eddie Antar and His CFO/CPA Cousin Sam Antar Meet for first time in 30 Years ADDITIONAL MUSIC & SOUND EFFECTS "Happy Bee" • Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) • Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Additional Sound Effects from Final Cut Pro, iLife, and Logic Pro