The Con is a comprehensive docuseries about how corruption and greed led to bankruptcy, homelessness and suicide in 2008
In 2007, Patrick Lovell was living his
American dream. As a senior producer on the nationally syndicated show Home Team, for which he traveled the country to surprise deserving homeowners with makeovers, Lovell made enough to purchase his first property, in Park City,
Utah. Then the production company behind Home Team, a deep-pocketed real estate development company, went bankrupt. Production on the show ceased immediately. Then the US
economy burst, in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Lovell was out of work and rattled; an attempt to refinance the family home ended in foreclosure. It was as if a switch flipped, and overnight Lovell’s life inverted from “my American dream to my American nightmare”, he told the Guardian.
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