Man loses leg, roommate takes wallet, goes on spending spree

By The Associated Press

Monday, July 2, 2007 10:11 AM EDT

NEW YORK - With his roommate still unconscious from a car crash that would cost him his leg, Anthony Giordano told police he was the injured man's brother and then snagged his wallet - launching a $22,000 spending spree, police said.
The former Long Island resident was extradited to New York from South Carolina, according to the Suffolk County Police Department. He was facing charges of identity theft and grand larceny.

Giordano made more than $22,000 in charges on his roommate's credit cards and on new cards he took out in MacMurdo's name, police said.

He used the cards at a strip club and to buy a 15-year-old jeep, police said.

After the crash, he continued to live with MacMurdo, moving out without warning in May 2006, and eventually moving to South Carolina, where he was arrested. It was only after he moved that his roommate began to suspect him.

Suffolk County police said they had no information on Giordano's recent address or on whether he had a lawyer.

AP-ES-06-29-07 2321EDT

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