A 91-year-old Staten Island man racked up thousands of dollars in tickets and tolls on a car that isn’t even his, and the borough president is warning people that similar fraud could happen in the future.
Janine Mulè says her father only drives to church and the store near his home, and she was surprised when he started getting tickets in the mail for unpaid tolls and traffic violations. The tickets were from all over New York City and New Jersey, and showed her father’s license plate number on a different car that wasn’t his.
Since no one stole his plates, however, why did he get the tickets? Prosecutors say someone used duct tape to replicate the numbers and letters on his plate. It’s a problem CBS News New York has investigated for years, from plate covers to fake or stolen plates…