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Thomas Parkin, left, on a Department of Motor Vehicles security camera, dressed up as his mother. Photo: Brooklyn District Attorney's Office/AP Photo

A man who impersonated his dead mother as part of a real estate scam - using lipstick, manicured nails and even an oxygen tank at a meeting - has been convicted of fraud and now faces up to 83 years in prison, prosecutors said.

Thomas Parkin, 51, was found guilty of 11 criminal counts, including charges of fraud, grand larceny, perjury and forgery for his scams.

Along with the real estate fraud, Parkin and a partner cashed his mother's social security checks every month for six years, stealing about $44,000.

The real estate scam centered on an apartment building in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn that Parkin's mother, Irene Pruskin, had deeded to her son in the 1990s.

In January 2003, nine months before his mother died, Parkin was forced to sell the building at a foreclosure auction.

Soon after, Parkin and another man, Mhilton Rimolo, 49, filed a fraud lawsuit against the building's new owner -- under his dead mother's name.

Parkin then doctored documents to make it appear that his mother was still alive, and even set up a meeting with the Brooklyn District Attorney's real estate fraud unit to discuss the matter.

At the meeting, investigators from the fraud unit found "Parkin dressed as his 77-year-old mother, wearing a red cardigan [jersey], lipstick, manicured nails and breathing through an oxygen tank," prosecutors said.

Parkin is due to be sentenced on May 21.

Rimolo, his partner in the fraud, previously pled guilty and was sentenced to three years in prison.

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May 4, 2012

GODESS

Pass...
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May 4, 2012

ntebo

shame poor thing misses his mommy
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May 4, 2012

Iwe

Wow!
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May 4, 2012

Mamphago

He is just a mama's baby, who refuses to grow up! Really now! @ the age of 51 still getting up to such tricks?
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May 4, 2012

Papage

He watched too much of Big Mama and Mrs Doubtfire
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May 7, 2012

kudi

ache money is evil
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May 7, 2012

Lehido

greedy kakhole
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