Hi All,
My name is Eli Freedman and I worked in the Hartsdale store, hired right off the boat from Israel, from 1984-87..Had a blast and met some great people...
Anyway, heard a few years later, after leaving, on what had happened to Eddie, the family, the stock manipulation's, the outright fraud, investigations by the SEC, etc...
Well, before I had arrived to N.Y., I was a Police Officer, in Tel Aviv....Bomb Squad, but new a lot of investigaters and so forth...
I get a phone call, fom a friend of mine, in 1992, who, by now ,is head investigator, for Major Fraud Unit, asking me, if I can take a look at a picture he will be sending me, via fax and if the name, David Jacob Levi Cohen, rings a bell...
The name means nothing to me, until I see the photo, all that was missing was the sweat-suit and that cocky smirk...Damn, its KELSO, Eddie Antar, himself....
Of course I know him, I used to work for him, was my reply....Silence at the other end of the phone...Thanks for the I.D..and that was all I heard..Until I saw him, about 6 months later,on T.V., being led away, handcuffed, by my friend, before being extradited, back to the U.S...
I must say, when he was in Israel, under his other alias, he became(as most criminals do) religious and donated HUGE sums of money, to Haddassah Hospital, in Jerusalem, where there is actually a Hospital Wing in his family name....
The other strange coincidence, is that Arnie Spindler (Swindler),who was a co-conspirator and received cash payments from Sam M. Antar's faction and lied, under oath to the SEC,was never used as a witness at the future criminal and civil trials and was NEVER prosecuted. He later worked for the Wiz (and eventually was canned), but wound up working, and cooking the books there, at Rodneys Video Warehouse, were I was manager for a few years..Though, didnt, at the time, know his connection to Crazy Eddies....
Thats what I call a small world..Its truly
IINNNNSSSSSSSSSSAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNEEEEEEEEE!!!!

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