Richard Keane

Why, oh why, doesn’t anyone take hime seriously?

Hi Sam:

To answer your first question, because you are a clown. A parody. A fellow with not enough sense to realize that your messages here are very quickly becoming the butt of many jokes, all of them very much at your expense. If you are that insistent on asking questions on a conference call, why don’t you dial in to one of the 1-900 party lines, I am sure they will let you ask questions to your heart’s content, and who knows, you may even meet someone special in your area who wants to party with you!

Since you seem to want to start the “lets call people names of food you think they resemble” game, are you a pear?

Very truly yours,
Sarge

Check out this quote from his dear old friend Gary Weiss:

Gary Weiss is quoted as saying: “He doesn’t like to tell you that he’s weighed down by the burdens of his crimes; he doesn’t like to admit that he’s changed…
…He’ll just say ‘you should never trust people like me’.”

Found here: http://www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c36_a16818/News/New_York.html

Without a doubt a sociopath…

Only the SEC could imagine doing this:
http://hedge-fund-news.blogspot.com/2009/11/sec-pulls-multi-billion-hedge-fund.html

Reply:
I guess they passed Sam over for the job.

http://hedge-fund-news.blogspot.com/2009/11/sec-pulls-multi-billion-hedge-fund.html

Laughing until I cry.

Sam E. Antar wrote:
“I did not cooperate with the government and victims because of any sense of morality or remorse for my crimes. I simply cooperated with them to avoid a long prison sentence and reduce potential monetary penalties.”

- And yet you would like us to believe that this little crusade of yours against Patrick Byrne is purely motivated by the moral drive and desire to bring “justice” to our markets, the same markets (and investors) you openly admit to having felt no moral obligation to when it came to your very own fraudulent activities? Are you sure this attack on Patrick Byrne isn’t borderline (clinical) obsession on your part? Especially when you take into consideration the fact that more than 80% of the content on your ENTIRE blog is dedicated solely to Patrick Byrne?

Sam E. Antar writes:
“If my crimes had remained undetected and the government did not seek to prosecute me, I would probably still be the criminal CFO of Crazy Eddie today.”

- Again, we’re supposed to believe that you had your “come to Jesus” moment, and are now dedicating your life to stopping the same sort of market manipulation that you were in fact convicted of (and from all the circumstantial evidence floating around the web, still seem to be actively involved in in some form, albeit with a different group of miscreants – assuming you had no choice but to seek out new cohorts considering you were directly responsible for putting your own flesh and blood away for years-a true sign that you could not man up and face the music for the very crimes you so proudly boast your role in playing such an instrumental part of)? Or are you really saying that if you hadn’t been busted in the first place, you’d happily forget your new found claim to “expose fraud to defend the capitalist system and the common investor”, and just keep running the same old scams that landed you in front of a judge in the very first place?

And the final quote that sums up exactly the type of character who has taken it upon himself to try to hijack this part of the Deep Capture site with his garbage posts:

Sam E. Antar writes:
(the act of making) “Apologies for my crimes are irrelevant.” (part in parenthesis is mine)

- Glad to see you feel this way, you definitely seem to have a good grasp on this whole “turning over a new leaf” thing. As even my 7 year old seems to understand, a heartfelt apology begins with the remorse (see: guilty feelings) that is felt by the person who committed the crime (or wrongdoing) in the first place that they now regret through sympathy, empathy, and on moral grounds. I guess by following that logic, this lack of remorse from Sam E. Antar would certainly explain why he feels that an apology to his victims would have to be “irrelevant”.

I hate to go the ad-hominem route with you Sam, but actions definitely speak louder than words. You can claim all you want that you have mended your criminal ways and that you are ONLY interested in uncovering fraud in the marketplace. But it is all lip service, and it is falling on deaf ears. I cannot reconcile The Sam E Antar who writes such wonderful claims about wanting only to expose fraud and dishonesty in the marketplace in order to better our markets for the little guy, with the same guy who seems to feel it is morally acceptable to threaten schoolchildren on the internet. So keep throwing your toys out of your pram like my young daughter does when she doesn’t get her way, I’m sure you’re pal Gary Weiss will be there to help you clean up the mess you’ve made when this tantrum of yours is over and done.

Oh, and feel free to threaten my daughter on the internet if my reply here has angered you in any way…the person responsible for this post happens to be an old Army NCO (who happened to serve in Iraq and in Afghanistan), I would love to see if you and your shady little group of wiseguys would have the balls to back those sorts of threats up against a combat vet.

Sam E. Antar writes (under his “About Me” portion of his blog no less):

“I am a convicted felon and a former CPA. As the criminal CFO of Crazy Eddie, I helped Eddie Antar and other family members mastermind one of the largest securities frauds uncovered during the 1980s. My responsibilities at Crazy Eddie included skimming, money laundering, insurance fraud, securities fraud, and a list of other criminal activities too long to list here.

I eventually pleaded guilty to three felonies: conspiracy to commit securities fraud, conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, and obstruction of justice. I was sentenced to only six-month’s house arrest, 1,200 hours of community service, and paid approximately $10,000 in fines.

In my settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, I agreed to a lifetime bar from being an officer or director of a public company and paid $20,000 in disgorgement of losses that were avoided by selling my Crazy Eddie stock at inflated prices.

In my settlement with the victims of my crimes, I avoided all civil liability.

We committed our crimes at Crazy Eddie for fun and profit and simply because we could. We had no empathy whatsoever for our victims. During my sixteen years at Crazy Eddie and two years spent covering up our crimes after being terminated from the company, I never had a single conversation with any of my co-conspirators about morality or the suffering of our victims. Our conversations focused solely on the successful cold-blooded execution of our crimes.

I was the main witness in the Crazy Eddie criminal trial prosecuted by US Attorney’s Office in Newark, NJ, civil trial prosecuted by the Securities and Exchange Commission, and civil litigations brought against us by our victims.

I did not cooperate with the government and victims because of any sense of morality or remorse for my crimes. I simply cooperated with them to avoid a long prison sentence and reduce potential monetary penalties. If my crimes had remained undetected and the government did not seek to prosecute me, I would probably still be the criminal CFO of Crazy Eddie today.

Apologies for my crimes are irrelevant.”

Look at it this way, I can answer some without even being part of Overstock. Here would be my responses

Question 1-3. Absolutely not. We believe that all of our filings and the methods of accounting used are in compliance with regulations. The SEC has investigated our methods once already and are again looking at how our accounting standards are maintained but as of right now, we believe we are in full compliance and the SEC has not informed us otherwise.

Wow was that easy. Now, If you were put on Enron’s calls and asked the same question, do you really think they would say yes? That is what makes it a stupid question not worthy of spending time on.

Another easy one…

Item 4. Overstock.com and Deepcapture are two separate companies. monies from one is not placed into the other. Many corporate CEO’s have interests, incomes, and investments outside of the company they manage. Patrick Byrne’s affiliation with Deepcapture.com does not mean that such affiliation is overstock.com’s affiliation. You are an investor in Barry Minkow but being an investor does not mean that all of your other outside interests and employments are also affiliated with the felon – does it?

You are a wretched man with no morals. Your accusations and questions are childish and do not deserve the public forum you so desperately want. You have been denied for years now affirmation of your claims and as such you get more and more bitter making you incapable of seeing the light.