He stands at 5'7 and weighs 165 pounds with brown eyes and gray-black hair. With the 1988 murder of Genovese mobster John DiGilio, Prisco assumed control of the Genovese crime family operations in New Jersey. He is a relative of Rudolph (Rudy) Prisco, a Genovese crime family associate who was indicted and convicted of criminal activity from the testimony of Joseph Valachi in 1963. In 2006, Prisco was charged with extorting an electrician to not bid for job so that a mob-related electrical company could win the business.