Sami Antar was fascinated by Wall Street and numbers. His cousin Eddie needed a person with accounting knowledge within the family, kind of like a concierge. Sami learned that audits of public companies are really not meant to catch fraud.
In the 1980s, the discount electronics chain store Crazy Eddie was so famous, its commercials were parodied on "Saturday Night Live." So when the family business began selling its company shares on Wall Street — making millions — nobody questioned its success.