Rudolph Prisco was a Mafia figure whose criminal record dates to the 1920s and 1930s. Involved in policy rackets and gambling, he was once indicted for the murder of a pinochle player. In another incident he beat a man with a apparatus in a disagreement at a service station. In November 1933 Prisco was one of three men who broke into a Yonkers bar and grill in the early morning hours. In later years Prisco relocated from his native Bronx to Rockland County, New York.