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NY man charged with impersonating dead mother (AP)

17 June, 2009 10:12:24 Yahoo World News
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This May 2009 image provided by the Brooklyn District Attorney's office shows Thomas Parkin, left, on a Department of Motor Vehicles security camera, dressed up as his mother according to prosecutors. Thomas Parkin, 49, was charged Wednesday in a plot to impersonate his deceased mother, Irene Prusik who died in 2003, so he could collect $117,000 in government benefits. (AP Photo/Brooklyn District Attorney's office)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.


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