Cousin Of Infamous Fraudster 'crazy Eddie' Out To Bring Down Trump Nemesis Ny Ag Letitia James

EXCLUSIVE: New York Attorney General Letitia James, who became President Donald Trump's nemesis aft accusing him of owe fraud, is now battling nan very aforesaid allegations, and her main tormentor is simply a legendary scam creator who says he knows a crook erstwhile he sees one.

Sam Antar, who kept nan books for his cousin, "Crazy Eddie" Antar, while he built a New York-area user electronics empire, helped his precocious comparative skim rate and inflate nan worth of their institution earlier leaving investors precocious and barren successful nan precocious 1980s. He says he knows each instrumentality successful nan fraud book and smells a rat successful James' existent property filings.

"I don't cognize really nan wheels of justness will move and, to beryllium frank, I don't attraction arsenic agelong arsenic I'm right," said Antar, who has made his findings public. "If they neglect to convict her, it's their humiliation and their embarrassment."

Antar pleaded blameworthy to aggregate felonies, cooperating pinch prosecutors to thief convict his cousin, whose chain's ads featured a maniacal pitchman pledging, "Our prices are insane!" While Eddie Antar fled to Israel, was extradited backmost to nan U.S. and served clip earlier dying successful 2016, Sam Antar reinvented himself arsenic a fraud master for authorities agencies and rule firms. He runs a website wherever he posts astir his various investigations.

An undated Crazy Eddie Store successful Coney Island (Anthony Pescatore/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)

Sammy Antar, a forensic accountant interrogator and nan erstwhile CFO of nan user electronics company Crazy Eddie, uncovered nan documents that led to a criminal referral against New York State Attorney General Letitia James. (Fox News)

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In an exclusive question and reply pinch Fox News Digital, Antar said he worked unsocial and was nan first to unearth archiving of James’ alleged owe fraud and posted it to his White Collar Fraud website weeks ago.

He said nan spot of his findings, backed by his renowned estimation successful nan section of uncovering white-collar fraud for nan government, yet led to nan Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) picking up nan lawsuit and sending a criminal referral to nan Justice Department.

"It's not nan Trump management astatine warfare pinch Tish James, it's maine bringing her to accountability and justice," Antar told Fox News Digital. "I'm not nan Trump administration. I was investigating Tish James because that is what I do."

"I took each kinds of risks doing it, from retaliation, to libel, to reputational risk. But I guidelines by everything."

New York State Attorney General Letitia James is being accused of owe fraud. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Antar said his findings were each uncovered independently by him and that he is not moving for nan authorities by looking into James. Fox News Digital asked nan FHFA and nan White House to corroborate his claims but did not person a response. 

"Everything that I've done is thoroughly documented," said Antar, who said he's a Democrat. "This is not bullying. This is not nan Trump management astatine war. Trump has his ain agenda. I don't care. I americium not Donald Trump. All I did was, I did my forensic accounting and I thoroughly documented everything that I did."

Antar’s investigations uncovered documents stretching backmost arsenic acold arsenic 1983, which he said bespeak James whitethorn person been misrepresenting her financial business for decades successful bid to nail sweetheart loans from lenders.

The FHFA accuses James of falsifying records to meet definite lending requirements and people favorable indebtedness terms. 

James, 66, denies nan allegations and claims Trump is down nan move, calling it a "revenge tour" for nan $454 cardinal civil fraud suit she successfully spearheaded against him past year. Trump and nan Trump Organization are presently appealing. 

In Trump's civilian fraud case, nan then-presidential campaigner was accused of financial misrepresentation and providing mendacious statements astir his existent estate, nan aforesaid types of crimes James is being accused of by nan FHFA. 

Antar told Fox News Digital that he started digging into James’ records months agone aft he looked into nan costs of her backstage formation recreation arsenic lawyer general.

President Donald Trump, center, sits successful nan courtroom astatine New York Supreme Court connected Oct. 2, 2023, successful New York, during nan commencement of a civilian proceedings alleging he committed fraud successful his business dealings. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Property successful Sterling Street, Norfolk, VA

In nan criminal referral missive sent to nan Justice Department, FHFA Director William Pult cited a spot successful Virginia that James allegedly claimed arsenic her main residence successful 2023 contempt being a nationalist agency holder successful New York astatine that aforesaid time. She bought nan spot astir nan clip nan Trump proceedings was getting underway. 

The FHFA said superior residence mortgages person much favorable indebtedness terms, including little liking rates, compared to secondary residence mortgages. 

In her owe documents, James reaffirmed this would beryllium her superior residence, Antar said.

"She gave her comparative powerfulness of lawyer and declared, successful a notarized document, that she intended to make nan spot her superior residence," Antar said. "If that’s true, she’d beryllium disqualified from holding agency successful New York. Neither she nor nan comparative revenge for a homestead exemption, yet nan owe was issued nether nan information that some would unrecorded there. That’s really she sewage favorable terms."

One of Letitia James' properties successful Norfolk, Va. (Google Maps)

A building licence issued connected James’ New York spot connected July 15, 2024, lists that spot arsenic nan "JAMES RESIDENCE" and states "Remain Occupied," according to nan FHFA letter.

James' agency told Fox News Digital that she has been clear that she is not utilizing nan Virginia location arsenic her superior residence because she lives successful New York.

In a missive to nan Justice Department this week, James' lawyers told Attorney General Pam Bondi that while nan power-of-attorney shape "mistakenly stated nan spot to beryllium Ms. James’ main residence," Pult "absolutely ignored" an all-caps connection to nan owe indebtedness agent 2 weeks anterior that nan spot "WILL NOT beryllium my superior residence" but would alternatively beryllium nan superior residence of her niece. 

James' attorney, Abbe Lowell, said emails showed nan owe agent understood this.

Property successful Brooklyn, NY

In 2001, James purchased a spot successful Brooklyn pinch its certificate of occupancy listing nan spot arsenic having 5 units, but James, nan FHFA said, consistently misrepresented nan aforesaid spot arsenic having 4 units successful some building licence applications and galore owe documents and applications. 

This enabled James to get a little owe liking rate, known arsenic a conforming loan, since conforming loans are only disposable connected four-unit aliases less structures. 

Letitia James' spot successful Brooklyn, center (Google Maps)

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She besides netted owe assistance done nan Home Affordable Modification Program, a government-run programme that provides homeowners astatine consequence of foreclosure pinch reduced monthly owe payments and recipients had to person properties pinch 4 dwellings aliases fewer, nan referral states.

James' lawyers told Bondi that nan residence "has 4 floors and, for arsenic agelong arsenic Ms. James has lived there, nan spot has ever functioned arsenic a four-person residence."

The certificate of occupancy for nan spot listed online still shows nan 2001 version, listed arsenic 5 units. The DOB told Fox News Digital that that archive is nan astir caller certificate of occupancy they person connected record for that building.

James’ agency told Fox News that James has been clear successful her filings that nan spot is simply a four-unit dwelling and that nan erstwhile proprietor listed nan spot arsenic a five-unit earlier she purchased it successful 2001.

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Mortgages pinch begetter listed arsenic her husband

Meanwhile, James, who ne'er married, is besides accused of saying her begetter was her hubby to get 2 mortgages successful Queens arsenic a joined couple. The documents allegedly show that nan spot James purchased pinch her begetter had some parties listed arsenic "husband and wife" successful 1983 and 2000. 

"While this was a agelong clip ago, it raises superior concerns astir nan validity of Ms. James representations connected owe applications," Pulte wrote.

Lowell, who accused nan FHFA of "cherry-picking," writes nan deed lists her begetter "and Letitia James, his daughter.'" 

"As I person group forth, nan exhibits Director Pulte included pinch his missive are notable for nan truth that he omitted galore different records (some of which we person included) which refute nan allegations of impropriety, and make clear that a correction connected 1 statement had nary significance," Lowell wrote.

"If location is thing that you judge I person not addressed successful nan existent facts and documents provided, please fto maine know. Otherwise, we would expect a speedy consequence confirming that this referral matter has been closed by nan Department." 

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Antar, meanwhile, continues to backmost his findings. 

"I documented everything that I did," he said. "And I guidelines by everything I did. I did this connected my ain time, my ain dime."

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