City Employee Caught Stealing from the Dead

A former city employee could face seven years in jail and a lifetime of ghoulish haunting if convicted of stealing $3,300 from a dead person’s safety deposit box. Arthur Orikher pulled the scam while working as an accountant for a Kings County office that administers the estates of those who die without a will or families. Assuming it’s the same Arthur Orikher who owns this gorgeous Siberian cat, can you really blame him for wanting to pamper his precious Pusik?

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By John Del Signore in News on June 20, 2008 2:10 PM

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sonyactivision

That's one hell of a cat. It probably controls all of Arthur's actions.

Art Vandelay

If they had no wills or families, doesn't all their property go to the State? It's still pretty sleazy, but to be fair, this guy was really stealing from the State, not the dead.