A Brooklyn man who police said dressed in drag to impersonate his dead mother and collect $115,000 in Social Security check and rent subsidies has been indicted on 47 counts of grand larceny, forgery and conspiracy.
Thomas Prusik-Parkin’s alleged accomplice, Mhilton Rimolo, was also indicted and both men face up to 25 years in prison if they’re convicted…
Prusik-Parkin’s six-year scam came to a crashing end on Monday when the 49-year-old from Park Slope was arrested…
Prusik-Parkin’s alleged scam began in 2003 when his mother, Irene Prusik, died at age 73.
Her son allegedly gave the funeral director the wrong Social Security number and date of birth for his mother so that her death would not be registered in government databases.
He began collecting $700 a month in Social Security in her name, in addition to his own disability checks, sources said.
Authorities said Prusik-Parkin also posed as his mother to file for bankruptcy so “she” would be eligible for $39,000 in city subsidies to help pay rent on a Park Slope apartment.
RTFA. He worked so hard at being a crook he probably would have expended less energy being an honest man.
Norman, is that you, Norman?
J/P=?
Doesn’t sound like much of a crook. I’m sure they’ll try to make an example of this dysfunctional individual. Any bets he does much more hard time and gets much swifter ‘justice’ than Bernie Madoff. I don’t justify what he’s done but it’s hard to find it morally reprehensible, unless his mother’s death wasn’t from natural causes.
Not morally reprehensible? He just stole every dime and more I’ve given to SS. I want it all back, and now!
and now he’ll get to “play momma” in prison!
Sounds like he would have kept getting away with the SS scam if he hadn’t gone for the extra rent subsidy.
I wish the article was more clear about how the scheme came apart especially given that the Chopra guy even thought the mother was alive.
Still, just a bit crazy to file lawsuits against yourself in favor of a mother who has died.
KISS. Very important for all frauds.
I’d do her.
#7–SL==which one? The one that died a few years ago or her son in drag?
#8 Bobbo – The dead one of course. What do you think I am some kind of fag?
25 YEARS for that ? Geeez