Man charged with impersonating dead mother
By TOM HAYS - THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK (AP) — 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.
Both men were ordered held on $1 million bail. Their lawyers did not immediately respond to phone messages left on Wednesday.
District Attorney Charles Hynes said the scam, first reported in the Daily News, was “unparalleled in its scope and brazenness.”
Damn that guy is good! If the headline hadn't been the first thing I saw I would have sworn that was a genuine old woman. He must have the same makeup guy that made the Jackass guys look old or at least Harvey Firestone's character from Mrs. Doubtfire. I know he did a hell of a lot better job impersonating an old woman than Martin Lawrence did in "Big Mama's House" and he probably made more money doing it.
That said this guy creeps the hell out of me.
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