Man dressed as dead mother for 6 years to cash her social security checks

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Thomas Prusik Is A Momma’s Boy

June 22, 2009 by Morbid

Filed under: Conspiracy, Featured, Theft, fraud

Brooklyn, NY - This story has been going on a few days now, but after seeing the video, I HAD to post it. Thomas Prusik’s mother died back in 2003 – natural causes I am assuming as no foul play is being reported – but that didn’t stop Thomas from collecting her Social Security checks. By reporting a bit of false info to the funeral director, Thomas was able to continue receiving the checks and simply dressed up as his dead mother to cash them even going as far as renewing her drivers license in April – dressed as her. But his scam went further than just social security and also involved some million dollar property as well. Officials state this scam netted him $62,000 in Social Security payments and $65,000 in state rent subsidies. Think I’m kidding? Read on for more details, and a video of him in action.

As you saw, this guy pulled this off for SIX YEARS. That’s dedication to your craft right there. But the government doesn’t look too kindly to people dressing up like dead people to rip them off, so Thomas, 49, is looking at 25 years or more with the 47 counts of grand larceny, forgery and conspiracy charges he got nailed with. Another man, Mhilton Rimolo – reportedly the dead woman’s nephew – has also been arrested accused of helping Thomas pull off the scam. Thomas reportedly had a coffin in his living room when Ciy marshals went to evict him and had even made up a son and a nephew.

But make no mistake, this guy is no Norman Bates, no matter how creepy his actions seem. This guy was running a pretty good scam, even if it was a bit TOO ballsy. Almost conning a million dollars on top of the thousands he had already received over the years and fooling bureaucrats, banks, lawyers, mortgage brokers and title company representatives along the way. I am not condoning what this guy and his accomplice have done, so don’t take this next comment the wrong way, but I am real curious as to how much time he is about to get compared to some of the drunk drivers who kill people, or child molesters we have featured on the site.

Tags: Driver's license, Government, larceny, Mhilton Rimolo, Norman Bates, Social security

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April

Damn. I have no dead, rich relatives that I can pretend to be.

malq

LOL at this guy.
I was thinking how I could pull something like this off. The kicker is you have to stow the body somewhere for an extended period of time.

sammo

The best thing is that he didn't even have to stow the body; she had a proper funeral and burial.

hullaboo

"Damn. I have no dead, rich relatives that I can pretend to be."
Me either April :D I don't much like my mother but she's as poor as a church mouse.I also don't think I could pull it off, she's 82 years of smoking wrinkly. This is TOO funny. Sure, he probably should be punished but it never befits the crime does it? Murderers and molesters, (slap on the wrist, "be sure to register".)And off they go and do it all again. Sure, Ol' Tom sucked some money from the gov't, but it's more amusing than anything.

StrangerDanger

What's strange is he had the regular funeral. So I would imagine that friends and family knew about her death. So one would assume that her estate would then go into probate or her will would be followed.

Perhaps he lied to other siblings about the inheritance proceedings. Stalled it in a false claim of probate.

Or did she have in her will that the house was to be given to the dogs because she knew her son was a cross-dressing wannabe Mrs. Doubtfire.

Either way, he had to know eventually this would come to an end. Overall goal was to transfer the assets to him. Then they probably fucked up by running up her debt. No one gives a shit until someone else's money gets involved. Hense the investigation that takes place after a murder when there is a large life insurance policy. The insurance company doesn't give a shit about the person and what is right. All they care about is finding a loophole to get out of paying or to delay the payout until doomsday.

sayitisntso

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/0...

Here is photos of the two fuglies at work. Eeww.

Kdogg

He may get more time simply because he managed to make so many in positions of power look like idiots

biteme

He never would have been caught, if he hadn't gotten insanely greedy with the house.
the system had been so easily beaten he became incredibly overconfident

CassieMomma

He never would have been caught, if he hadn’t gotten insanely greedy with the house.
the system had been so easily beaten he became incredibly overconfident

They always do :)

sarabei

I am curious about the amount of time he will get as well.

MadeaBecBec

Prosecutors were tipped by the man who actually owns the home where Prusik-Parkin lives, a $2.2 million brownstone building that appears to be at the center of a massive fraud.

In 1996, Irene Prusik deeded the home at 492 Sixth Ave. to her son, according to city records.

He took out a $200,000 mortgage to bankroll a real estate investment business that failed. He stopped making mortgage payments, the house went into foreclosure and it was bought by Samir Chopra in 2003.

To hold onto the brownstone and avoid eviction, Prusik-Parkin posed as his mother to file a suit alleging that he had forged the 1996 deed transfer, investigators allege. He even filed an affidavit from a nonexistent son.

In essence, investigators say, he sued himself to prove that he didn't have the title to the home and that Chopra - who also thought Irene Prusik was still alive - couldn't have legally bought it.

Prusik-Parkin deeded the house back to his mother last year. Then he took out a mortgage for almost a million dollars in her name in April, collecting some $300,000 of the loan.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/0...

Mmmm, Had Prusik used his "smarts" and invested in legal ways, no telling what he could've accomplished.... The LOVE of money is the root of all evil... greedy bastid...