Home Makover Star Accused of Fraud

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On an episode of A & E;’s popular reality series Flip This House, Atlanta businessman Sam Leccima sits in front of a run-down house and calls buying and selling real estate his passion.


Now authorities claim that Leccima’s true passion were scam that included faking the home renovations shown on the cable TV show and claiming to have sold houses he never owned. Legal filings claim Leccima’s episodes were elaborate hoaxes. His friends and family were presented as potential home buyers and “sold” signs were slapped in front of unsold houses. They say the home repairs , the lynchpin of the show , were actually quick or temporary patch jobs designed to look good on TV.






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