Former Buckyballs CEO Craig Zucker: What Happens When a Man Takes on the Feds

"So this is what starting over looks like. I have a seven-by-seven space with two little desks in it."

Craig Zucker is remarkably good-humored. He's referring to his office, rented month-to-month in a dilapidated building in Brooklyn. There is construction all around, graffiti on the walls, and unfinished doors and windows.

It's a long way from the Soho digs the 34-year-old used to occupy. Zucker is the former CEO of Maxfield & Oberton, the company behind Buckyballs, an office toy that became a sensation in 2009 and sold millions of units before it was banned by the feds last year.