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 present battling the precise aforesaid allegations, and her main tormentor is simply a legendary scam creator who says helium knows a crook erstwhile helium sees one.

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

"I don't cognize however the wheels of justness volition crook 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 with prosecutors to assistance 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 the U.S. and served clip earlier dying successful 2016, Sam Antar reinvented himself arsenic a fraud adept for authorities agencies and instrumentality firms. He runs a website wherever helium posts astir his assorted investigations.

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

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

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In an exclusive interrogation with Fox News Digital, Antar said helium worked unsocial and was the archetypal to unearth documentation of James’ alleged owe fraud and posted it to his White Collar Fraud website weeks ago.

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

"It's not the Trump medication astatine warfare with Tish James, it's maine bringing her to accountability and justice," Antar told Fox News Digital. "I'm not the Trump administration. I was investigating Tish James due to the fact that that is what I do."

"I took each kinds of risks doing it, from retaliation, to libel, to reputational risk. But I basal 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 helium is not moving for the authorities by looking into James. Fox News Digital asked the FHFA and the 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 the Trump medication 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 helium said bespeak James whitethorn person been misrepresenting her fiscal concern for decades successful bid to nail sweetheart loans from lenders.

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

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

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

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

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

Property successful Sterling Street, Norfolk, VA

In the transgression referral missive sent to the 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 bureau holder successful New York astatine that aforesaid time. She bought the spot astir the clip the Trump proceedings was getting underway. 

The FHFA said superior residence mortgages person much favorable indebtedness terms, including little involvement 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 marque the spot her superior residence," Antar said. "If that’s true, she’d beryllium disqualified from holding bureau successful New York. Neither she nor the comparative filed for a homestead exemption, yet the owe was issued nether the information that some would unrecorded there. That’s however she got favorable terms."

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

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

James' bureau told Fox News Digital that she has been wide that she is not utilizing the Virginia location arsenic her superior residence due to the fact that she lives successful New York.

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

James' attorney, Abbe Lowell, said emails showed the owe broker understood this.

Property successful Brooklyn, NY

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Mortgages with 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 amusement that the spot James purchased with 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 the validity of Ms. James representations connected owe applications," Pulte wrote.

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

"As I person acceptable forth, the exhibits Director Pulte included with his missive are notable for the information that helium omitted galore different records (some of which we person included) which refute the allegations of impropriety, and marque wide that a mistake connected 1 enactment had nary significance," Lowell wrote.

"If determination is thing that you judge I person not addressed successful the existent facts and documents provided, delight fto maine know. Otherwise, we would expect a speedy effect confirming that this referral substance has been closed by the Department." 

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Antar, meanwhile, continues to backmost his findings. 

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

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