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- <text id=92TT1495>
- <title>
- July 06, 1992: Arrested:Eddie Antar
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- July 06, 1992 Pills for the Mind
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES, Page 22
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- <p> ARRESTED. Eddie Antar, 45, fugitive consumer-electronics
- mogul whose screaming "Crazy Eddie" TV commercials ("Our prices
- are insaaaaaane!") blanketed the U.S. Northeast in the 1970s
- and '80s; in Yavne, Israel. Antar vanished in 1990 after the
- SEC brought a $72 million civil suit against him for stock
- fraud.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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