NY man denies he dressed as dead mother in scam

AP ^ | 06/20/09 | AP

[Artemis Webb]

NEW YORK – A man accused of dressing up as his dead mother to collect her Social Security and rent subsidies is blaming the crime on an impersonator.

Thomas Parkin tells the New York Post in a jailhouse interview that he wasn't the person captured on security cameras dressed in a wig and his mom's clothing.

The newspaper says that during the 40-minute interview at Riker's Island, the 49-year-old also claimed his mother was once a B-movie star who dated Gene Kelly, and offered a rambling discourse on the psyche of Norman Bates, the cross-dressing killer in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho."

[Artemis Webb]

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.

Don't ask me who the guy to the right is. I have no idea.

[mysterio]

[SIDENET]

A man accused of dressing up as his dead mother to collect her Social Security and rent subsidies

Hey, doesn't everyone do this these days?

/s

[SIDENET]

Don't ask me who the guy to the right is. I have no idea.

Comedian Richard Lewis?

[ETL]

"Why 'she' wouldn't even hurt a fly"...

[Liz]

"You wanna go down the fruit cellar with me, say hello to Mother?"