Thomas Parkin: Man Dresses Up As Dead Mom To Defraud Government

[Shana A]

Thomas Parkin: Man Dresses Up As Dead Mom To Defraud Government

TOM HAYS | June 17, 2009 09:12 PM EST | AP

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/17/man-dresses-up-as-dead-mo_n_216949.html

NEW YORK — Irene Prusik has been dead for six years. But in April, someone showed up at the Department of Motor Vehicles in Brooklyn to renew her driver's license. The explanation given by prosecutors rivals the Hitchcock classic "Psycho": It was her son, in drag.

Thomas Parkin, 49, was charged Wednesday in the bizarre plot to impersonate his deceased mother so he could collect $117,000 in government benefits. He and the man accused of being his accomplice, Mhilton Rimolo, pleaded not guilty to grand larceny, criminal impersonation and other charges.

[tekla]

$100K + free living in a real expensive house, and that's "Bizarre"? 

[DarkLady]

Next GLBT-movement's hoax wing says that there was a discriminated MTF. As one young latina whom criminal record is full of petty crimes and wanted the New York child services to pay her SRS.

[DarkLady]

She would deserve 10 years in Attica not SRS she has over 40 prostitution arrests this Mariah Lopez.

[RebeccaFog]

This thread is about a man pretending to be his mother so he could steal money from the state.

[Michelle.]

An update to this thread, as this story was updated recently.

The accussed is using the excuse that somebody else was impersonating his dead mother.

This tale is a weird one. Though as Tekla pointed out this guy had ample reason for a little cross-dressing on occasion.

[RebeccaFog]

I'll bet there are others doing this thing as well.  There is an entire subculture of people who make their living finagling money out of Uncle Stinky.

they should start a magazine.

[Natasha]

http://www.glossynews.com/artman/publish/benefit-cheat-impersonates-dead-mother-1830.shtml

[tekla]

There is an entire subculture of people who make their living finagling money out of Uncle Stinky.

they should start a magazine.

It's called Forbes, and in the daily edition, The Wall Street Journal.