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TV Report busts A&E's "Flip This House" As A Fraud

jal41

jal41

Video: http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/myfox/p...n=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1

Blog item from the reporter: http://community.myfoxatlanta.com/b...05/14/More_on_Sam_Leccima_and_Flip_This_House

Fox O&O WAGA in Atlanta has busted one of the real estate investors that "flips" houses on A&E's "Flip This House". Sam Leccima had his real estate license revoked by the State of Georgia. He has ripped off many investors, including a preacher who lost faith in people.

He didn't buy the homes, and he didn't sell them either.

Read this: http://www.flipthislawsuit.com/

A&E responded that the episodes involving this con artist have been pulled pending an investigation.

Sounds like A&E better pull the plug before they get sued too.

UPDATE: Never mind. They have been sued already by the creators of the concept.
 
Flip this House was a great show in its first season with Richard Davis, and his crew from Trademark Properties. However, after a dispute with A&E, the network decided to hire replacement flippers, nowhere near as good as the original.

Davis, who created the show, sued the A&E network, and took his crew over to TLC, where their new show is "The Real Deal."

There is much more detailed info at Flipthislawsuit.com.
 
When I started this post I was going to say I thought the title of this thread was misleading, but with things I've read in the last few minutes I'm not so sure. If the production comapny knew what Sam Leccima was doing, they're just as guilty as he is, and A&E should have kept more control over what was being done. They're either extremely stupid or lying.

In looking at A&E's forums for Flip This House it appears that there have been a lot of posters who have been unhappy with Trademark being dropped and with the new teams, and that Leccima's past was brought up there in at least one post as far back as last November: http://boards.aetv.com/thread.jspa?threadID=700002161&start=17

It also sounds like A&E was dirty in the way they treated the Trademark group. I hope their new show on TLC does well. It wouldn't surprise me if A&E moved Flip This House to Saturday nights to try keep people from finding out about The Real Deal. I really didn't know about it until the controversy about Sam Leccima came out and then I found out about the lawsuit. All this makes me want to not want to watch the new FTH episodes.

Also, Here's a thread on A&E's forum about the new show: http://boards.aetv.com/thread.jspa?threadID=700003867

TLC also has a similar show called Flip That House. I'll be watching it and The Real Deal instead.
 
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