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Sam Antar was the former CFO of Crazy Eddie’s, his cousin’s electronics retail empire.
Sam is a much sought-after speaker on the lecture circuit these days, and his seminars may also earn CPE and CLE credits for the attendees.

That’s because he is a convicted fraudster.

Ethics continuing education courses are usually self-paced correspondence courses one takes at one’s own leisure as a part of maintaining one’s professional good standing.
Reading through Sam’s site on the worldwide web, however, is as educational as any structured academic account can be.

As the former CFO of Crazy Eddie’s, Sam presided over one of the most well-known scandals in the chronicles of corporate crime.
He lays it all out, bare, raw, and unembellished by any of the normal self-serving rationaliziations often given to insiders’ accounts – all unadulterated on his website.

This is an ethics CPE study course like none other – if it were accredited as such.
As it is, it’s just a website – but oh, what a website!

White-collar offense never looked so exciting.
That’s because the Crazy Eddie’s scandal was at heart a soap opera displaying all the familiar human foibles known to a Greek chorus – lust, greed, betrayal, as well as family.
Yes, family.

The familial element in this drama makes this type of corporate crime so – if the pun will likely be pardoned – familiar to lay readers, grabbing and holding their awareness where other accounts would lose them under a mountain of technical information.
However, it isn’t that Sam offers no minutiae of his own; his very objective today is to combat criminal activity, after all; it’s that these details, which would be so boring otherwise without the benefit of a human drama in which to place them in the correct perspective, come to brilliant life against the circumstance of a family power battle that resonantes purposely with everyone who’s ever underwent any semblance of sibling rivalry.

How’s that for an ethics CPE course!