What Do You Know About White Collar Crime?
Sam E. Antar is written up by Fortune last month, Takes one to know one
"Sam E. Antar is a convicted felon, and he will not let anyone forget it for a minute.Whenever you find yourself starting to think of him as merely a fast-talking yet charming New York character, he'll come out with something like:
"I had no remorse whatsoever as a criminal. I had no concern about any other human being. I enjoyed being a criminal."Antar is a cousin of "Crazy Eddie" Antar, the eponymous founder of the notorious New York City-area consumer electronics chain of the '70s and '80s. The business was a forerunner of Best Buy and famous for TV spots featuring a manic, turtleneck-wearing pitchman promising that Crazy Eddie's "prices are insaaaane!"
I want you to listen to that: "I had no concern about any other human being."
That is what a con criminal excels at: having no concern, but a great understanding about what buttons he can push.
Here is some more revealing looks into the soul of a mind killer:
"All too often we give the white-collar criminal a pass.If I were a serial killer, a child molester, a rapist, you wouldn't applaud me.
You'd be throwing eggs - am I right?"
And then he's off to the races, talking about Crazy Eddie and the "artful liars" responsible for the "brutality of white-collar crime."
Brutality of white-collar criminals.
The crime destroys our innate social bonding - nothing else comes close for its brutality.
