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 currently, and his seminars may even earn CPE and CLE credits for the attendees.

That’s because he is a convicted fraudster.

Ethics continuing education courses are generally 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 famous scandals in the chronicles of corporate crime.
He lays everything out, bare, raw, and unembellished by any of the usual self-serving rationaliziations typically given to insiders’ accounts – all unadulterated on his website.

This is an ethics CPE program like no other – if it were accredited as such.
As it is, it’s just a website – but oh, what a website!

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

The familial element in this drama makes this instance of corporate crime so – if the pun is going to be pardoned – familiar to lay readers, grabbing and holding their attention where other accounts would lose them under a hill of technical information.
However, it isn’t that Sam offers no minutiae of his own; his very goal nowadays is to combat criminal activity, after all; it’s that these details, which would be so boring otherwise with no benefit of a human drama in which to place them in the proper perspective, come to vivid life against the circumstance of a family power fight that resonantes forcefully with everyone who’s actually underwent any semblance of sibling rivalry.

How’s that for an ethics CPE course!