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Man guilty of $100K benefits fraud by dressing up as dead mother
- NewsCore
- May 04, 2012
A NEW York man who snubbed a deal that could have sprung him from
jail could instead serve dozens of years in prison after a jury
convicted him of stealing more than $100,000 in government benefits - by
dressing up as his dead mom.
Two videos of Thomas Prusik-Parkin's wacky Norman Bates-like stunt -
in which he wore a red dress and a platinum wig - were aired for jurors
during the grand larceny trial, the NY Post reports.But the admitted admirer of the murderous innkeeper from the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock classic Psycho continued to insist he did not play dress-up games to pull off the creepy con after his mom's 2003 death.
"He maintains it wasn't him in either video," defense lawyer Morris Shamuil said.
"He never impersonated his mother, never wore her clothing. It was somebody else. He doesn't know who it was."
The Brooklyn man had no reaction as jurors found him guilty of grand larceny, mortgage fraud and criminal possession of a forged instrument.
Prusik-Parkin faces up to 83 years in jail when he is sentenced May 21, according to the district attorney.
Prosecutors earlier dangled a deal in which he could have walked out of jail with time served following his 2009 arrest. Prusik-Parkin turned up his nose at the offer.
"He knew he could be released immediately if he pleaded guilty," Shamuil said. "But he wasn't going to plead guilty to something he didn't do."
Prusik-Parkin's kooky cross-dressing caper collapsed in 2009 when he donned the matronly disguise to tell prosecutors he was being ripped off by a man who bought out of foreclosure the $2.2 million Brooklyn building deeded to him by his mom.
By then, prosecutors charged, he had been cashing his dead mom's Social Security benefits for years.
Irene Prusik, an actress, was 73 when she died in 2003.
A Social Security investigator testified during the nearly two-week trial that the agency found out about her death in 2008.
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