Show: Business Nation
Network: CNBC
Date: Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Time: 10 PM and 1 AM

Youtube Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxEwxZSN1QU

Herb Greenberg interviews Eddie and Sam.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Sam E. Antar,

Sam, you look good. Kelso looks great. I'm looking forward to seeing the entire show, will CNBC stream it all?

I've only seen a few moments on the clip, so I really don't know how the rest of he show went. I've read about your work with children and it sounds very good. But you really need to lose the anger, it hurts no one but yourself and your family.

To me Kelso was a great man, perhaps it was somewhat of a cult, but he was able to take people like myself and draw out of them more success than they might have found by themselves.

There's always two sides to every story and a whole lot in the middle. My only memories of working at Eddies that aren't fond were after Kelso stopped participating fulltime and that assehole Ike Karey became centrally involved. He was a major league scumbag with a cold heart.

It all happened a long time ago. Those were some of the best times of my life. Remember when the Money For Nothing video hit MTV, that was us, and the SNL spoof? Most importantly, I'm sure you're aware of the supreme court case that abolished fair trade laws in the US. Kelso was the eye of the storm, life there is not so easy, and in a capitalist world where greed is good, considereing all the bad that can possibly come from greedy intentions, that supreme court case changed the world for american consumers. The day the court ruled against Sony is one of the most important days in American business history, its ramifications still are felt today.

I wish you success in your internal teshuvah. Life is wonderful, there is so much to feel good about, there is still so much good work to be done, so many mitzvohs to perform. Don't worry about going to hell before going upstairs. Its a Christaian concept anyway, you need to ditch it. We all make mistakes, and in the end we all need to be cleansed.

You wrote:

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To me Kelso was a great man, perhaps it was somewhat of a cult, but he was able to take people like myself and draw out of them more success than they might have found by themselves.

My response:
What Eddie Antar and I did was nothing but evil.
Eddie Antar is not a great man and neither am I.

Respectfully,

Sam E. Antar (former Crazy Eddie CFO & convicted felon)

I have to disagree with you, everything you did was not evil. How many men did Crazy Eddies help get started in life. How many families live in homes bought with profit sharing money? How many men were able to afford to get married and raise children on our paychecks? How many men found there dignity be employed at good work?

There is real evil in this world, there are people in this world that do unthinkable evil to other people in misguided attempts at moving towards our maker.

All you really did, was push the faller. As bad as it seems to you, the only people you really hurt were those that were meant to be hurt anyway. Thers a much bigger picture and each of us is just small brush stroke.

The efforts of Eddie Antar, his father, brothers, other family members and me were not misguided. Our deliberate actions were nothing short of vile, malicious, and evil.

While you were not involved in any of our crimes and personally benefited from working for the company, it does not rationalize or diminish the impact of our criminal actions.

Had Crazy Eddie never existed, I am quite sure that you have found gainful employment else where.

The largess of the Antar family does not excuse our criminal actions.

My crimes are unforgivable and nothing that I do today can ever undo any past criminal acts.

Almost three thousand people came to work for Crazy Eddie to seek a better life and all lost their jobs.

Countless others suffered and many people still suffer today.

I doubt that most of these people would have come to work for us if they had known of the Antar family's frauds.

During the interview, I told Eddie, "You're not a big (expletive) anymore, Eddie. You're a two bit thug just like I am. So stop playing games."

I will not play games with you by excusing my actions. Please do not excuse Eddie Antar's actions.

Respectfully,

Sam E. Antar (former Crazy Eddie CFO & convicted felon)