Gary Weiss: The idea was to take Crazy Eddie public. Selling shares of the company could be a quick way for the antars to make a lot of money, he says. "It's much more profitable to screw investors than it is to steal from the IRS and evade taxes"
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.