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Wife-slay suspect hasn’t touched in$urance

Last Updated: 1:51 AM, February 8, 2012

Posted: 1:51 AM, February 8, 2012

He’s been accused of killing their mother — but at least he hasn’t laid a finger on these two young kids’ $1.6 million.

Financial documents submitted by unemployed backgammon whiz Rod Covlin in Westchester Surrogate’s Court yesterday show he hasn’t spent any of the insurance money his murdered wife left their two children.

Covlin was named guardian of the kids’ payout last June by Judge Anthony Scarpino — but only after Covlin neglected to mention a few perStinent facts in his application to the judge. They included the fact that his wife, Shele Danishefksy, was a murder victim, the NYPD has named him as the prime suspect and there was already a pending case involving her estate in Manhattan.

After The Post blew the whistle on Covlin’s omissions in December, Scarpino booted him as the guardian of the payout pending a hearing next month, and ordered him to turn in a full accounting of the money by yesterday.

A review of those papers showed the $1.6 million was still there, but a court spokesman said Covlin’s submissions were returned because they “were technically deficient.”

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