Brooklyn prosecutors charged a a mom and dad today with treating themselves to more than $1 million from a trust created to pay for their disabled son’s medical care.
Edwin Sanango, 39, and Marlene Romero, 37, allegedly dipped into the trust after the March 2008 death of their son, Eddie, who had been institutionalized since his birth in 1993..
The boy had the trust established after his parents won a $2 million negligence judgement against the hospital where he was born.
The trust was supposed to cover Eddie’s living expenses while he could still qualify for Medicaid to cover his health-care costs.
Upon his death, authorities said, the parents were supposed to reimburse the city’s Human Resources Administration for those costs with money from the fund.
Instead, they allegedly used it as a personal piggy bank, withdrawing thousands of dollars.
Authorities said they spent $275,000 on a house in Pennsylvania