Two Bronx residents are accused of using a dead man's credit card to buy Armani clothes, a laptop, jewelry and more. In November of last year Daniel Bisk, who'd been badly injured in a plane crash, was helicoptered into Westchester Medical Center where Andrew Vassell was employed. But while Bisk was in treatment, the 33-year-old patient care tech pocketed his credit cards. Public Safety Commissioner George Longworth summed things up neatly: “While doctors and other medical personnel were making heroic efforts to keep Mr. Bisk alive, one employee used the tragedy as an opportunity to steal.”
The 54-year-old crash victim died a week later, never having had the opportunity to discover his cards were missing. Later, reports the AP, Vassell and his girlfriend Lisa Dacosta racked up a $2,000 bill at Armani Exchange, Best Buy, gas stations and other stores. Police tracked them down yesterday and charged them with grand larceny and identity theft. But Longworth and county police agree that this wasn't an isolated incident. According to the Mid Hudson News, investigators have tied Vassell's name to an October of 2009 credit card theft from a patient in the ER.
