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It's hard enough for homeowners to get permits to make changes to their home. Then here comes a builder trying to cut corners, or worse, at least according to investigators. As Newsday reports, Robert Fitzpatrick of Periwinkle Associates, which builds Smithtown-area homes, "is accused of listing himself as the owner of a home he did not own and of filing a permit application to build an addition on home, when in fact he was building an entire house." He was charged as part of a two-year Suffolk County district attorney probe into the town's building department. Read more about the investigation here.