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Eddie and fraud
Crazy Eddie became a known symbol for corporate fraud in its time, but has since been eclipsed by the Enron, Worldcom and Bernie Madoff accounting scandals.
Eddie recruited his cousin, Sam E. Antar ( known as Sammy ), to assist the company with its fraud.
As a public company, Eddie, Sammy, and others engaged in increasing amounts of inventory fraud to increase reported profits and inflate the value of Crazy Eddie stock.
As the company's fraud became harder to cover up, the public perception of Crazy Eddie as a commercial success began to change.
Based on information gathered over the course of its investigation, the SEC charged Eddie Antar with securities fraud and illegal insider trading on September 6, 1989.
On July 20, 1993, Eddie Antar was found guilty on 17 counts of fraud.
In April 1994, Eddie Antar was sentenced to 12½ years in prison for racketeering and stock fraud.
* Crazy Eddie-Conviction of Eddie Antar, founder and CEO of Crazy Eddie, a consumer electronics chain, for fraud

Eddie and trial
Chertoff, calling Eddie " the Darth Vader of capitalism ," vowed to begin a new trial.
During this period Bruno defeated former world title contender Scott LeDoux, the dangerous fringe contender Floyd Cummings, former European Champion Rudy Gauwe, British contender Eddie Nielson and trial horses such as Bill Sharkey, Walter Santemore and Ken Lakusta.
Deloris flees Vince's casino to the local police station where Lieutenant Eddie Souther suggests she stand trial against Vince if he can be arrested, but for now, she should go into witness protection until the time comes.
During the second trial nine men were charged ; in addition to David Matthews, Jerry Smith, Jack Fowler, six other men, Virgil Griffin, Eddie Dawson, Wayne Wood, Roy Toney, Coleman Blair Pridmore, and Rayford Milano Caudle were charged with other crimes associated with the event.
In 2007, the feature documentary Mississippi Cold Case by David Ridgen, that started its life on CBC News: Sunday, made international headlines and won over a dozen major international awards after playing a lead role in the indictment, trial, and conviction of James Ford Seale, a Mississippi Ku Klux Klansman who assisted in the kidnapping and murder of Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore, two African American 19 year-olds in 1964 Mississippi.

Eddie and began
Beginning in 1982, Eddie Murphy began a parody of Gumby on Saturday Night Live.
Soon after, both Wallis and Fox were replaced with guitarist " Fast " Eddie Clarke and drummer Phil " Philthy Animal " Taylor and with this line-up the band began to achieve success.
Davis began playing professionally, performing in several 52nd Street clubs with Coleman Hawkins and Eddie " Lockjaw " Davis.
The sub-genre became a popular trend in the 1980s when actors who were known for their background in comedy such as Eddie Murphy, began to take roles in action films.
Eddie Mars, who had been backing Geiger, helped Vivian conceal it by inventing a story about his wife running off with Rusty, and then began blackmailing her himself.
Under the influence of Dave Sim, Campbell founded Eddie Campbell Comics and began self-publishing in 1995, after the film rights to From Hell were optioned.
After the cancellation of Bacchus, Campbell published two issues of Eddie Campbell's Egomania magazine, in which he began to serialise another work, The History Of Humour.
Many members of the collective began to branch out into side bands and solo projects under George Clinton's tutelage, including Bootsy's Rubber Band, Parlet, and The Brides of Funkenstein, while longtime members like Eddie Hazel recorded solo albums with songwriting and studio help from the collective.
David Lee Roth called Eddie to discuss what tracks would be included on a planned Van Halen compilation ( work on which actually began before Hagar's departure ).
During the later stages of the tour, stories of Eddie being drunk began to surface along with fan shot video footage of poor playing.
On June 3, Michael Anthony began a successful tour with Hagar billed as " The Other Half " ( a reference to them being half of Van Halen with the other half being Eddie / Alex ), with Anthony singing lead vocals sometimes.
After moving to Detroit, he began to frequent the Brewster Recreation Center, where Joe Louis and Eddie Futch trained.
By late 1991, their friendship had developed into a romance that began shortly after Houston ended her alleged affair with comic Eddie Murphy and after Brown's affair with Ward, who later discovered she was pregnant with Bobby's second child following their breakup, ended.
The band's songwriting team of Eddie Brigati and Cavaliere then began providing most of their songs, and the hits kept coming for the next two years.
In 1965, Gábor began the role for which she is best-remembered, Lisa Douglas, whose attorney husband ( Oliver Wendell Douglas, played by Eddie Albert ), decides to leave the city.
Although Alex is known as a professional drummer, he began his musical aspirations as a guitarist, with his brother Eddie taking up drums.
Eddie Cline began working for Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios in 1914 and supported Charlie Chaplin in some of the shorts he made at the studio.
Pre-production of the album began in January 1979 with demos cut at Albert Studios in Sydney, Australia, where they met the intended producer, Eddie Kramer.
He began a heavy schedule of performing, composing, and recording, leading several small live and groups, now often with racially integrated bands led by musicians such as Eddie Condon, Yank Lawson, Sidney de Paris, Sidney Bechet, Rod Cless, and Edmond Hall.
After the special, the movie Best Defense which starred Dudley Moore and Eddie Murphy aired which began after Carlton's second ident, with the Cadets of the Royal Navy, saying the slogan, was shown.
In May 1987, Eddie began proceedings to take the company private again.
The closing of Crazy Eddie began in March 1989, as the company shuttered 17 of its 43 stores.
Soon after Crazy Eddie began going-out-of-business sales, but store supply remained minimal even when leftover merchandise from stores that had shuttered was sent to others that were still in operation.

Eddie and June
Popular music stars in the early 1950s included Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Frankie Laine, Patti Page, Judy Garland, Johnnie Ray, Kay Starr, Perry Como, Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Dean Martin, Georgia Gibbs, Eddie Fisher, Teresa Brewer, Dinah Shore, Kitty Kallen, Joni James, Peggy Lee, Julie London, Toni Arden, June Valli, Doris Day, Arthur Godfrey, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Guy Mitchell, Nat King Cole, and vocal groups like The Mills Brothers, The Ink Spots, The Four Lads, The Four Aces, The Chordettes, Fontane Sisters, The Hilltoppers and The Ames Brothers.
* June 20 – Eddie Laughton, British-born American film actor ( d. 1952 )
* June 14 – Eddie Polo, Austro-American dramatist ( b. 1875 )
* June 5 – Eddie Joost, baseball player and manager ( d. 2011 )
* June 14 – Eddie Eagan, American sportsman ( b. 1897 )
Former Washington Wizards coach Eddie Jordan was introduced as the 76ers ' new coach on June 1, 2009.
Others with local connections include actors Roger Moore, Simon Callow, Peter Davison, Nicholas Clay, Neil Pearson and June Whitfield, saucy seaside postcard artist Donald McGill and comedians Eddie Izzard, Jeremy Hardy and Paul Merton.
On June 16, 2011, Creed and Alter Bridge guitarist Mark Tremonti claimed that he was invited to 5150 studios and that Eddie, Alex and Wolfgang Van Halen performed the album live, in its entirety, for Tremonti and a friend.
In June 18, 2009 Eddie Brigati and Felix Cavaliere were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame at a ceremonty in New York City.
As well as the core cast guest voices included Paul Merton, Morwenna Banks, Judith Chalmers, Antoine de Caunes, Bob Holness, Bob Monkhouse, Jonathan Ross, Graham Norton, Arthur Smith, June Whitfield, Kathy Burke, Pam Ayres and Eddie Izzard.
The O ' Jays are an American R & B group from Canton, Ohio, formed in 1958 and originally consisting of Eddie Levert ( born June 16, 1942 ), Walter Williams ( born August 25, 1943 ), William Powell ( January 20, 1942 – May 26, 1977 ), Bobby Massey and Bill Isles.
* June 11, 1982, Jerry Reuss / Los Angeles Dodgers ( double by Reds ' Eddie Milner, who reached third on a sacrifice bunt and scored on a fielder's choice )
On June 6, 1989 Crazy Eddie was served with a petition by five of its creditors, who had not been paid a total of $ 860, 000 they were owed, which sought to have the company forced into bankruptcy.
Eddie Antar was arrested near Tel Aviv in June 1992.
and takes up the role of Eddie in the new musical Loserville at the west Yorkshire Playhouse in June 2012
Instead, Gates will play Eddie in the new musical Loserville at the West Yorkshire Playhouse from 18 June to 14 July 2012.
Two days before summer vacation in June 1958, Eddie runs away from home and decides to rest in the park.
The O ' Jays are a Canton, Ohio based soul and R & B group, originally consisting of Walter Williams ( born August 25, 1942 ), Bill Isles, Bobby Massey, William Powell ( January 20, 1942 – May 26, 1977 ) and Eddie Levert ( b. June 16, 1942 ).
On 28 June, it was reported by Fox Sports Australia that Eddie McGuire said Kewell would be officially presented with a Melbourne Victory shirt when the Melbourne side would face Scottish side Celtic in a friendly at AAMI Park on 13 July, which proved untrue.
The band took an indefinite hiatus after the Show World tour, and their future was uncertain after the untimely death of guitarist Eddie Kurdziel on June 6, 1999.
In 1947, the series switched to NBC, hosted at various times by Baker, Garry Moore ( 1947 – 49 ), Eddie Cantor ( 1949 – 50 ) and Jack Paar ( beginning June 11, 1950 ).
* June 15 – Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Eddie Waitkus is shot in Chicago by deranged fan Ruth Ann Steinhagen.
For jazz fans-The cowbell is highlighted in the opening of " Compared to What " by Les McCann and Eddie Harris, a song that's perhaps known best from their million-seller live album, " Swiss Movement ", recorded on June 21, 1969 at The Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland.

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