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Ex-con's advice to execs: Be paranoid

Former Crazy Eddie chief financial officer Sam Antar,

Photo credit: Newsday/John Paraskevas | Former Crazy Eddie chief financial officer Sam Antar, who served six months of house arrest after pleading guilty to fraud charges, now offers his advice to business executives on white-collar crime. (Aug. 3, 2011)

A convicted felon gave Long Island business and financial professionals something to think about Wednesday night.

Sam Antar, the former chief financial officer of the now-defunct Crazy Eddie electronics chain, spoke about his role in a series of accounting and security frauds the retailer committed, and offered his opinion on the psyche of the white-collar criminal. His talk was part of a...

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