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| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DECEMBER 17, 2008 |
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MURDER CHARGES ADDED IN CASE AGAINST GENOVESE FAMILY CAPTAIN
LEV L. DASSIN, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that a Superseding Indictment filed today against ANGELO PRISCO has added a specification of murder in aid of racketeering to the charges previously filed against PRISCO. As alleged in the Superseding Indictment filed in Manhattan federal court:
From at least the 1970s through the present, PRISCO was a Soldier, and later a Captain, in the Genovese Organized Crime Family. As a Captain, PRISCO supervised, oversaw and profited from the criminal activities of his own crew of Genovese Family Soldiers and associates, operating in the New York City area and in New Jersey. PRISCO committed various crimes on behalf of the Genovese Organized Crime Family, including the June 3, 1992 murder of ANGELO SANGIUOLO. PRISCO also oversaw and took part in a conspiracy to commit a string of home invasions and other armed robberies, during which the intended victims were robbed of cash proceeds of their businesses and other property. In addition,PRISCO oversaw and participated in the extortion of a Manhattan-based construction business; possessed, sold and transported stolen property; and operated an illegal gambling business. PRISCO is charged with various crimes in aid of racketeering, including murder, racketeering, racketeering conspiracy, robbery, extortion, firearms crimes, stolen property crimes, and operating an illegal gambling business.
If convicted, PRISCO, 69, of Tom's River, NJ, faces a maximum sentence of life in prison. He will be arraigned on the superseding Indictment tomorrow, December 18, at 2:30 p.m. before Judge BUCHWALD.
Mr. DASSIN praised the work of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Newark and New York Field Offices; the Orange County, New York District Attorney's Office; the Westchester County, New York District Attorney's Office; the New York State Police; the Morris County, New Jersey Prosecutor's Office; the Rockaway Township, New Jersey Police Department; and the New Jersey State Commission of Investigation.
Assistant United States Attorneys ELIE HONIG and LISA ZORNBERG are in charge of the prosecution.
The charges set forth in the Superseding Indictment are merely allegations and the defendant is presumed innocent unless