# Why was Crazy Eddie extradited? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 12, 2009, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-crazy-eddie-extradited/496214 "2009-05-12T21:04:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![copperwindow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@copperwindow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/copperwindow)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-crazy-eddie-extradited/496214/1 "2009-05-12T21:04:27Z")
I remember learning that a Jew has the right to return to Israel if (s)he’s suspected of committing a crime to be judged by a jury of Jews. Why did Israel extradite Crazy Eddie? ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-crazy-eddie-extradited/496214/2 "2009-05-12T21:42:11Z")
Your information isn’t correct. What you probably remembering is the Samuel Sheinbein case. Sheinbein fled to Israel after being involved in a murder. Sheinbein had Israeli citizenship through his father, and Israeli law at the time said that Israeli citizens couldn’t be extradited. Eddie Antar wasn’t an Israeli citizen, so that law didn’t apply. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-crazy-eddie-extradited/496214/3 "2009-05-12T21:47:34Z")
> [@copperwindow](#): > > I remember learning that a Jew has the right to return to Israel if (s)he’s suspected of committing a crime to be judged by a jury of Jews. Why did Israel extradite Crazy Eddie? A Jew has the right to apply for Israeli citizenship, end of story. It has nothing to do with trials by Jews. But being a citizen of Israel doesn’t necessarily make you exempt from extradition. In some cases countries won’t extradite a citizen if the penalty is something that they themselves don’t agree with, mainly the death penalty, or if the offense is not a crime they recognize as valid (say blasphemy). I don’t think that a fraud charge would prevent him from extradition. He’s a review of [Israeli extradition law](http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Archive/Communiques/1995/EXTRADITION%20IN%20ISRAEL). However, [this article](http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1219572115033&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull) contains the following quote: > [@](#): > > The Extradition Law stipulates that since the suspects are Israeli citizens and residents (except for Meir Abergil) Israel may only extradite them if the US agrees that if they are tried and convicted, it will allow them to serve their time in an Israeli prison. Crazy Eddie served time in the US, IIRC. ETA - I thought Crazy Eddie had applied for and received Israeli citizenship. If that’s not the case then it’s much easier to extradite, I would imagine. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-crazy-eddie-extradited/496214/4 "2009-05-12T21:50:17Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > He’s a review of [Israeli extradition law](http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Archive/Communiques/1995/EXTRADITION%20IN%20ISRAEL). However, [this article](http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1219572115033&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull) contains the following quote: > > Crazy Eddie served time in the US, IIRC. That’s Israeli law now. It wasn’t law at either the time of the Antar or Sheinbein cases. In fact, the law was changed to that because of the outcry over the Sheinbein case. ETA: Crazy Eddie was living in Israel with a false name and a forged Brazilian passport, I believe. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-crazy-eddie-extradited/496214/5 "2009-05-12T22:39:52Z")
Who is Crazy Eddie and what did he do? ---
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-crazy-eddie-extradited/496214/6 "2009-05-12T22:43:49Z")
He slashed prices all across the Tri-State area. ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-crazy-eddie-extradited/496214/7 "2009-05-12T22:48:53Z")
[Crazy Eddie](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Eddie). ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-crazy-eddie-extradited/496214/8 "2009-05-12T22:57:59Z")
Because his prices were IN-saaaaaaaaane! ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-crazy-eddie-extradited/496214/9 "2009-05-12T22:58:34Z")
> [@picker](#): > > He slashed prices all across the Tri-State area. That’s _insane!!_ ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-crazy-eddie-extradited/496214/10 "2009-05-13T04:27:35Z")
For the record, the guy who did those “Crazy Eddie” commercials was NOT Eddie himself. Those commercials were done by a local disc jockey named Jerry Carroll, who worked for years in the New York market as “Doctor Jerry.” ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-crazy-eddie-extradited/496214/11 "2009-05-13T10:00:52Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > For the record, the guy who did those “Crazy Eddie” commercials was NOT Eddie himself. Those commercials were done by a local disc jockey named Jerry Carroll, who worked for years in the New York market as “Doctor Jerry.” He also did time on talk radio (WOR) as himself, usually as a replacement. He seemed like a nice guy on the radio. I don’t think his career ever recovered from being mistaken for a crook. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-crazy-eddie-extradited/496214/12 "2009-05-13T15:43:49Z")
Because the Moties yielded to the Empire’s demands. ---
**Author:** ![born\_too\_late](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba9def/32.png) [@born\_too\_late](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/born_too_late)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-crazy-eddie-extradited/496214/13 "2009-05-13T21:05:02Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Because the Moties yielded to the Empire’s demands. Ooh, good one! ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-crazy-eddie-extradited/496214/14 "2009-05-14T01:37:49Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Because the Moties yielded to the Empire’s demands. I knew there was a reason I opened this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-crazy-eddie-extradited/496214/15 "2009-05-14T03:37:25Z")
:: bowing :: Thank you. I couldn’t resist. 😃