Man charged with impersonating dead motherIrene 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 licence.
The explanation given by prosecutors: It was her son, in a dress.
Thomas Parkin, 49, was charged on Wednesday in the bizarre plot to impersonate his deceased mother so he could collect $US117,000 ($A147,207) in government benefits. He and the man accused of being his accomplice, Mhilton Rimolo, pleaded not guilty to grand larceny, criminal impersonation and other charges.
Both men were ordered held on $US1 million ($A1.26 million) bail. Their lawyers did not immediately respond to phone messages left on Wednesday.
District Attorney Charles Hynes said the scam, first reported in the Daily News, was "unparalleled in its scope and brazenness".
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