“I’ve been in prison once, and I’m probably facing prison again, and it all had to do with me not being able to admit to myself I was a compulsive gambler,” Antar said in an interview with The Associated Press Thursday. In 2013, Sam Antar was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for taking $225,000 in a fraudulent investment scheme. He also is the nephew of Eddie Antar, who founded the Crazy Eddie electronics stores in the 1970s and 1980s, who defrauded investors out of more than $74 million. In the most recent case, he has pleaded guilty to theft by deception.

They kept doubling down and giving him $30,000 a month, feeding him extra money to try to avoid scrutiny by the regulatory agencies.”Īntar is a convicted fraudster who faces the prospect of additional prison time in November for a scheme in which he cheated friends and relatives of money he used to feed his compulsive gambling habit. The casino did not take corrective action as required. “It is quite another when you have them 50% of the time.

“It’s one thing if you have technical issues intermittently,” said Gramiccioni, a former Monmouth County prosecutor. He added Antar, 46, had lost “easily hundreds of thousands of dollars” during that time. His lawyer, Christopher Gramiccioni, said Antar experienced a disconnection rate approaching 50% during the nine months covered by the lawsuit. His lawsuit asserts that he experienced thousands of disconnections from the online platforms, often when he had a winning hand that was then wiped out. In a lawsuit filed Wednesday in state Superior Court in Middlesex County, Antar accuses the defendants of fraud, racketeering and other transgressions. Sam Antar says he is a compulsive gambler - a fact he says was well-known to defendants in the case including the Borgata casino, MGM Resorts International, and its online partner Entain.

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