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The fall of Craig Carton: $30 million reveal ‘ruined what we had’

Craig Carton’s rise and fall will soon be laid out for all to see in an HBO documentary. A trailer was released Thursday for “Wild Card: The Downfall of a Radio Loudmouth,” which will air on Oct. 9 and detail Carton’s journey from WFAN host to jail. Carton served a year in prison after he …

Craig Carton’s rise and fall will soon be laid out for all to see in an HBO documentary.

A trailer was released Thursday for “Wild Card: The Downfall of a Radio Loudmouth,” which will air on Oct. 9 and detail Carton’s journey from WFAN host to jail.

Carton served a year in prison after he was convicted for a nearly $7 million ticket resale scam that he said was to pay off gambling debts.

“I borrowed over $30 million to gamble with,” Carton said in the trailer, which highlighted his blackjack obsession.

“I thought I was the best and I didn’t think any casino could beat me. … I won $325,000 in like nine minutes and walked out the door to go to work.”

At one point in the trailer, Carton described getting a knapsack filled with $1 million from a man.

“If you lose their money … it only ends one way,” he said.

Carton has since been released from prison early in June and could potentially return to WFAN in the near future, The Post’s Andrew Marchand previously reported.

The scandal first came to light in September 2017, when Carton was suspended from WFAN after being arrested by feds. He resigned a week later from “Boomer and Carton,” which was consistently the No. 1-rated morning show in New York.

“We had the world by the balls,” former co-host Boomer Esiason said. “He ruined what we all had.”

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