United States v. Mitchell Antar, in 94-5228. United States of America v. Eddie Antar, in 94-5230

GREENBERG, Circuit Judge.

The final judgments of sentence and conviction from which the defendants appealed marked the culmination of a decades-long rise and fall of an electronics retail chain called Crazy Eddie and the family that ran the company. When all was said and done, the saga involved: a New York-based chain which achieved enormous success over the past few decades in large part due to the company’s aggressive advertising; an alleged behind the scenes sophisticated family-run conspiracy to operate Crazy Eddie in an unlawful manner, which allegedly netted the defendants millions of…