​A Queens con man failed Tuesday to come up with the money he owes for cashing in his dead dad’s pension and social security payments for more than a year as his body lay unclaimed in a Long Island morgue.
Christopher Bunn remained locked up over the money despite a plea deal to grand larceny that would have avoided him jail time. Queens Court Judge Barry Kron remanded Bunn a day earlier when he failed to produce the $25,000 restitution he agreed to pay.
Bunn said the cash would be wired within 24 hours, but that appeared to have been just another ruse.
“Bunn’s counsel is not here today and not surprisingly to me the transfer of money over the international wire hasn’t been accomplished,” Kron said.
Authorities said Bunn collected pension payments totalling $7,542 and Social Security of $17,790 which were electronically deposited between February 2010 and April 2011.
Investigators from the state comptroller’s office said Bunn lived with his father, a widower, and withdrew the money from an account they shared.
James Bunn, who died Feb. 24, 2010, was collecting on his wife’s pension, which was not transferable upon his death.
The 77-year-old was pronounced dead in a car in a Lake Success parking lot of natural causes.
Bunn acknowledged the death on Facebook, but never reported it to authorities.