“A boy’s best friend is his mother” - Norman Bates – Psycho -
From the strange-things-people-will-do-in-a-recession department meet Thomas Prusik-Parkin of Brooklyn, N.Y.
Shannon Bell of RightPundits.Com has the story:
This might possibly be one of the spookiest stories I’ve heard in a while.
Thomas Prusik-Parkin, a 49 year old man in Brooklyn NY, impersonated his mother to collect her social security benefits. After a business venture that went south, and a home in foreclosure Parkin decided to pull the ultimate scam.
[He] posed as his dead mother for 6 years; getting away with $115,000 dollars before his luck ran out. Parkin used a wig and even a phony “nephew” who has been arrested as his accomplice in the scam. Prusik-Parkin began to pose as his mother almost immediately after she died.
He deceived several government agencies, collecting $115,000 and all the while smearing his mother’s good name; what a son. When investigators finally nailed Prusik-Parkin, evidence that he may not be playing with a full deck emerged.
“I held my mother when she was dying and breathed in her last breath, so I am my mother,” Prusik-Parkin said when he was arrested, according to detectives.
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