Feds Bust WFAN Douche Craig Carton

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I knew this guy was dingbat and a scuzzbag I just didn't know precisely how until reading this.

http://nypost.com/2017/09/06/wfan-host-craig-carton-arrested-by-fbi/

I think he used to be a little funny but seems like his mind has been elsewhere for a long while. I know he got busted cheating on his wife several years ago.

[Edgy MD]

There's something about talk radio that favors the loudly ignorant and the fiercely corrupt.

But man, a Ponzi racket to cover gambling debts. That's a deep hole to wake up in every morning.

[Frayed Knot]

Never been a listener, but the sleaziness just oozed out of him to the point where if you had asked me which radio personality would be involved in a ticket ponzi scheme in order to cover heavy gambling
debts the only reason Craig Carton wouldn't have been both my first and second guesses is that Sid Rosenberg is still drawing a paycheck so he would have moved down to second and third.


oe: he and Francesa have had a long-running feud (at least partly real although possibly played up for spice) so now guess who gets the last laugh on his way out the door.

[Edgy MD]

Carton, who was arrested at his Tribeca home, is one-half of the popular “Boomer and Carton” sports radio show on WFAN along with former Bengals quarterback Boomer Esiason. The show has been on air since 2007.

Curious that The Post ignores Esiason's New York Jets tenure.

[Guest d'Kong76]

I used to listen to them years ago, hard to believe the show [crossout:11rncxnk]is[/crossout:11rncxnk] was a
decade old already. I always assumed he was a coke fiend player type.

Four kids with a daddy in the the federal pen... fuck him, I hope he rots.

[Frayed Knot]

There's something about talk radio that favors the loudly ignorant and the fiercely corrupt.

At least the ESPN guy who got busted last week for being drunk and naked in someone else's vacation condo gets to say; "Whew, I'm off the hook now"

[Ceetar]

Frayed Knot wrote: There's something about talk radio that favors the loudly ignorant and the fiercely corrupt. At least the ESPN guy who got busted last week for being drunk and naked in someone else's vacation condo gets to say; "Whew, I'm off the hook now"

I missed that one. Small potatoes. Why was he drunk and naked in someone else's condo, or was it someone else's wife's condo?

[Edgy MD]

No, it was more like he was so blasted that he walked through the wrong door, and then drunkenly dug in when folks were all "Wtf are you doing here?"

It happens, man.

[Ceetar]

I might contend if you're at a vacation condo and NOT drunk and naked you're doing it wrong.

[ashie62]

At least Dimone in Fast Times was a cool scalper.

[Guest d'Kong76]

He was the least cool guy in that movie. Geez.

[Frayed Knot]

And this sounds like it's a LOT more than simple ticket scalping. They're talking about him defrauding investors out of millions in a large ranging conspiracy.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

He wasn't scalping, just pretending to have a lucrative ticket biz so that other scumbags would give him $$ to pay off his gambling debts. How he got to that level ought to be interesting.

[Edgy MD]

d'Kong76 wrote: He was the least cool guy in that movie. Geez.

Anthony Edwards pumps his fist.

[seawolf17]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: He wasn't scalping, just pretending to have a lucrative ticket biz so that other scumbags would give him $$ to pay off his gambling debts. How he got to that level ought to be interesting.

Yeah, this story's going to have some serious legs when it's all said and done. What a dumbass.

[Centerfield]

Maybe I'm not all that advanced on good fraud techniques, but fake tickets seems like the kind of thing that has like, zero chance of success. You know?

If you're going to go into the fraud business, I don't know why anyone would choose anything other than televangelists. "Send me your money, I'll send you blessings."

Tons of people to be had, and unlike fake tickets, fake blessings can never be proven.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Maybe they should start putting holograms on blessings, so you can know that they're authentic.

I'm learning from this story that I didn't know who Craig Carton was. I thought he was Chris Carlin, from SNY.

[Edgy MD]

I don't think there were ever any fake tickets, so much as fake profits. Pay off the old investors with the new investors' money, and hope and pray that you can keep suckering people in until you finally find a casino that you aren't banned from and hit it big, or die, whichever comes first.

I don't envy somebody who falls into that hole.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I'm learning from this story that I didn't know who Craig Carton was. I thought he was Chris Carlin, from SNY.

Both shave their heads; Craig skinny, Chris fat (and working in Philly, I believe)...

[ashie62]

Big Chris Carlin. Carlin & Reese 94.1 Philly, RU Football WOR-NY

[ashie62]

d'Kong76 wrote: He was the least cool guy in that movie. Geez.

Nah, the least cool guy in the movie was the d-bag who wanted his money back for breakfast.

Dimone did bail his friend out with cash at the German place to pay his bill. But he did sleep with the object of Ratner's desires, knocked her up and bailed on the abortion.

So, yeah Dimone was a total d-bag

[Edgy MD]

Ashie62 wrote: d'Kong76 wrote: He was the least cool guy in that movie. Geez. Nah, the least cool guy in the movie was the d-bag who wanted his money back for breakfast.

Points off too to Arnold, who was supposed to be covering the counter but had to take a piss.

[ashie62]

"Hope ya took a good piss Arnold!"

[Guest d'Kong76]

I forgot about the breakfast douche, point noted.

[Frayed Knot]

So it appears that irregularities in the Tourette's "charity" that Carton ran is at least part of what tipped the Feds off.
Not that he'd be the first celebrity douche whose high-profile fund-raisers did more to raise his/her own awareness than that of its stated goal. But in this case it's suspected that, instead of the usual
route where the majority of the funds are eaten up by high overhead and limo rides to lure shoulder-rubbing celebrities, these were mostly funneled into the C.C. gambling debt relief effort.

[seawolf17]

Frayed Knot wrote: So it appears that irregularities in the Tourette's "charity" that Carton ran is at least part of what tipped the Feds off. Not that he'd be the first celebrity douche whose high-profile fund-raisers did more to raise his/her own awareness than that of its stated goal. But in this case it's suspected that, instead of the usual route where the majority of the funds are eaten up by high overhead and limo rides to lure shoulder-rubbing celebrities, these were mostly funneled into the C.C. gambling debt relief effort.

The good news is, now Carton's qualified for a position in the White House!

[Frayed Knot]

Carton "resigns" from WFAN, just one day after saying he was determined to fight on.
As if this mess was going to end any other way.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Was he back on the air the last few days, that would seem quite awkward? I'd think
that someone up on federal corruption (or whatever they're calling it) charges would
at best be on immediate leave.

[Frayed Knot]

No, has not been on the air since getting busted.
But after his first public statements with the standard stuff about the charges being completely false and how he's going to return better than ever, yadda, yadda -- as if he'd be the one to decide
that and not the station -- he submitted his resignation the following day.

[Edgy MD]

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