Craig Carton
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Craig Harris Carton (born January 31, 1969) is an American former radio personality best known as the co-host of the Boomer and Carton sports radio show on WFAN (AM) in New York City from 2007 to 2017.
After being arrested in September 2017 on suspicion of securities fraud and wire fraud for operating a concert ticket Ponzi scheme, his time at the radio station came to an end. Carton unveiled his latest feature, "Carton and Friends," on the FNTSY Sports Network, an online broadcaster, on March 29, 2018.
Carton was found guilty of all charges in November 2018.
He was sentenced to three and a half years in jail and three years of probation, as well as a $5 million fine for restitution.
Early and personal life
Craig Harris Carton was born in New Rochelle, New York, on January 31, 1969. Carton revealed in March 2019 that he was a perpetrator of child sexual assault while at a summer camp. In 1991, he graduated from New Rochelle High School and the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University with a degree in broadcast journalism.
Carton served play-by-play for a number of Westchester County high-school athletic tournaments, as well as being enrolled in a sports broadcasting class taught by legendary announcer Bob Wolff. He performed as a DJ in several Syracuse nightclubs as a student.
Carton was diagnosed with Tourette syndrome in his 30s.
Behind the Microphone, Carton's first book, Loudmouth: Tales (and Fantasies) of Sport, Sex, and Salvation from Behind the Microphone was published on June 4, 2013.
Carton established the Tic Toc Stop Foundation in 2013, which raises funds to combat Tourette syndrome and provides a summer camp for youth with Tourette's Camp Carton. The golf tournament and a bowling festival called "Strike Out Tourettes [sic] have been two separate fundraising campaigns.
Career
Carton began his radio broadcasting career in 1991 at WGR Radio in Buffalo. Carton appeared on WIP in Cleveland and WIP in Philadelphia in 1995 and 1993, and was also a host of the station's morning drive show.
Carton left the East Coast for Denver, mainly at KKFN 950 AM, "The Fan." His morning show went off immediately, and he became the station's highest-rated host. On KBPI, where he hosted the market's top-rated local morning show, he debuted in the morning slot. Carton and his wife Kim, who was pregnant with their first child, left Denver to care for his wife Kim.
Carton recalled Scott Kaplan on WNEW-FM's Sports Guys morning radio station in New York City in late 2000, a job he held for one year. He took the show in a new direction, including stunts such as an on-the-air cockfight and "Pastapalooza." During the September 11, 2001 attacks, Carton was live on WNEW with Blain Ensley.
Carton cohosting the Jersey Guys show on WKXW in July 2002. The show was nominated for a Marconi Award as the country's top mid-market talk show.
Carton joined WKXW in August 2007 for a morning opening at WFAN in New York, replacing Imus in the Morning. The Boomer and Carton show attained number one (men 25-54) in the Arbitron rankings within a year, a position that Imus had not achieved since 1993. The show lasted on MSG Network from 2010 to 2013, and then on the CBS Sports Network starting in 2014. As the nation's best major-market sports-talk show, Boomer and Carton were nominated for multiple Marconi Awards and several Cynopsis Media awards.
Carton hosted Spike's Uncensored Live in 2012. The Brooklyn Nets and the Washington Wizards have announced a 2013 NBA match between Carton and Esiason.
Carton was scheduled to host a national television morning show in Fall 2022 for Fox Sports 1, according to this. With Evan Roberts, he will continue on his WFAN afternoon drive time radio show.
Carton was arrested by federal agents at his home in New York City on September 6, 2017 on suspicion of securities fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit those crimes. Carton, Michael Wright, Dean Heiser, and Joseph Meli were accused of defrauding $4.8 million from investors by fraudulently implying that the corporation had access to millions of dollars in face-value concert tickets through non-existent deals with concert promoters. Despite being in court via witness testimony and the government later revealed that he had purchased the tickets in question, he later sold some of the funds from a ticket investor for gambling and only later obtained the tickets at a later date, according to a related civil complaint brought by the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Carton had no outstanding gambling debt at the time when the suspected fraud was perpetrated, according to evidence. It was also unknown if his credit card purchase of the tickets five weeks after he had reportedly misappropriated the funds received for ticket purchases, which was suspected of fraud. Carton's lawyers argued that money is fungible, and that, as a result, the manner in which Carton obtained the tickets was not as important as long as he claimed otherwise. The jury rejected their argument.
Carton resigned from the station on September 13, 2017, ending his ten-year tenure as co-cohost of Boomer and Carton and leaving Esiason as the sole host after being suspended for indefinitely from WFAN. Carton made the decision to give his old show "the best chance of succeeding without further disruption." Carton & Friends host on FNTSY Sports Network on March 29, 2018. Sports Byline USA acquired the rights to syndicate the program on terrestrial radio in May 2018.
After a week-long hearing, Carton was found guilty of fraud in federal court in Manhattan on November 7, 2018. Sentencing was set for February 27, 2019 but was postponed until March 15. Carton was sentenced to three and a half years in jail and ordered to make restitution of $4.8 million. On June 17, 2019, he admitted to the Lewisburg, minimum-security satellite camp, beginning with a minimum of 36 months of a maximum 42-month term.
On June 23, 2020, Carton was released from jail to a halfway house and eventually to home confinement. He completed a 500-hour cognitive behavioral therapy program that made him eligible for release while in federal jail. Carton was released from federal detention on June 8, 2021, and served his entire term.
Carton will return to WFAN on October 29, 2020, replacing the retiring Joe Benigno) starting in November 9. Carton would host Hello, My Name Is Craig, a weekly show on Saturday mornings beginning January 9, on which it would address problem gambling.
The new show was the highest-rated afternoon-drive sports-talk show in New York City in its first full ratings-book period.
Awards
- Talkers Magazine has named Carton the second-most important and influential sports talk-show host in the nation each year in its "Heavy Hundred Sports Talk Show List." Carton has also been listed among top 40 most important and influential talk-show hosts in the country for ten straight years.
- PoliticsNJ.com named Carton the ninth-most politically influential personality in New Jersey in 2007.