America's MOST NOTORIOUS (and best dressed!) television celebrity admits in an interview that he is a fraud!

Matthew Lesko just may be the biggest huckster in America, said Peter Carlson in The Washington Post. Invariably decked out in a bright suit festooned with question marks, Lesko has starred in countless infomercials in which he promises that if you just buy his books, DVDs, and tapes, he'll show you how to get "Free money!" from Washington. "If your insurance company tells you no," he shouts in a typical ad, "there may be a government program that will COVER YOU!" Lesko, an MBA with a gift for marketing, had his first success in 1982, when he boiled the 1,100-page Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance down to 300 pages and retitled it Getting Yours: The Complete Guide to Government Money. It was a best-seller. "I plagiarized the whole thing," he says gleefully. "I didn't write a lick. I get stuff for free and I sell it for as much as I can get." Over the past 25 years, he's convinced more than 3 million people to buy one of these guides. Consumer advocates are not amused. In 2004, the New York State Consumer Protections Board called his ads "misleading" and "peppered with exaggerations." When he promised that you can "Get $600 for Each Child," for example, Lesko was simply describing the standard federal income tax deduction. Lesko is unapologetic. "If we're going to start crucifying people for hyperbole in this society, there's going to be a long line. If I were writing a diet book, I wouldn't say, 'It's going to take a lot of work and it'll be a pain in the butt.' I'd say, 'Thin thighs in 30 days!'"