After going to jail as the CFO of Crazy Eddie, his brother Sam became a forensic accountant. His blog was pretty wild. https://whitecollarfraud.blogspot.com/
It sounds like Sam was a major source for this new book
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#12After going to jail as the CFO of Crazy Eddie, his brother Sam became a forensic accountant. His blog was pretty wild. https://whitecollarfraud.blogspot.com/
Dozens of writeups of unhealthy companies, mainly from ten years ago.
https://whitecollarfraud.blogspot.com/p/blog-post-index.html
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#13I sincerely thought there might be something here related to The Mote in God's Eye [0], a pretty good book by Niven and Pournelle about far off future alien contact.
I was dead wrong, but I'll still take the time to link it for the heck of the coincident names.
0 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mote_in_God's_Eye#Crazy_...
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#14These ads were bonkers. > the actor Jerry Carroll, often mistaken for the mysterious Eddie, would rattle off a sales pitch ending with the vibrating, bug-eyed assurance: “His prices are INSANE!” I always assumed that individual was Eddie himself.
Is this what the multidimensional cable advertising guy with ants in his eyes in Rick and Morty was satirising? I always felt I was missing a cultural reference.
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#15I've never seen a confirmation of this, but I always suspected the Tim and Eric "Prices" sketch to be a homage to Crazy Eddie's ads. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ9yBgTp9UQ
Don’t forget “Malfunctioning Eddie” from Futurama.
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#16This much more detailed story was posted on HN a few months back: https://thehustle.co/the-popular-electronics-chain-that-scam... Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30829593
> And when there was no more room under the radiator, he started bringing the money to Antar’s father’s house, where he hid as much as $3.5m — ~$11m today — in a false ceiling.
Wouldn’t that make it a true ceiling?
(Technically, they would be hiding the money above a false ceiling.)
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#17Kill everything first, eat the rot later
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#18Heist Poscast did a great episode on Crazy Eddie: https://facebook.com/heistpodcast/posts/the-story-of-cray-ed...
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#19Sam has a pretty active Twitter account. Apparently a movie is also supposedly in the works. https://twitter.com/samantar
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#20These ads were bonkers. > the actor Jerry Carroll, often mistaken for the mysterious Eddie, would rattle off a sales pitch ending with the vibrating, bug-eyed assurance: “His prices are INSANE!” I always assumed that individual was Eddie himself.
Is this what the multidimensional cable advertising guy with ants in his eyes in Rick and Morty was satirising? I always felt I was missing a cultural reference.
Yes-ish. That part was improvised, and Justin Roiland is from California so is unlikely to have seen the actual commercials. They were widely parodied and imitated though, so the segment likely was inspired be Crazy Eddie.