New York Criminal Defense Blog

Forty-nine year old Thomas Parkin faces a range of charges including larceny, after authorities found him impersonating his deceased mother to the tune of $117,000 in government benefits.

In 2003 Irene Prusik died at the age of 73. According to her son Thomas Parkin, because he was there at the time of death, he became his mother. This strange story has made headlines around the world and continues to baffle many. [Read More...]

Here’s another facinating article on possible (and likely) future uses for license plate scanners, this time by retail outlets. This kind of tracking, as people enter retail parking lots will almost surely happen as the technology becomes cheap enough and the information valuable enough.

One of the obvious questions this raises for anyone concerned with civil rights and privacy is: who owns, shares, and protects this data? Will the local mall be sharing this data directly with law enforcement agencies? [Read More...]

The former payroll manager for the Brooklyn Museum is facing some criminal charges for money that was stolen while he was employed there. No longer working for the museum, Dwight Newton was arrested at his new place of work, Action Against Hunger.

Newton allegedly took over $600,000 in fraudulent paychecks from the museum during his employment there. As the payroll clerk he was in a good position to make paychecks out to fictitious names and direct deposit them into his own account. [Read More...]