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PRISCO BANK CLOSING IS BLAMED ON DEBTORS NEW YORK. 11 (P).-Bankrupt debtors were blamed by Joseph W Prisco for the state's closing the Prisco State bank of which his father is The younger Prisco, who was vice and executive director was alleged confessed to representative of the State Banking that he alone was responsible for the bank's failure. He said he was owed more than $200,000 by bankrupt Wall street He absolved his Raffaele from connection with the theft of $17,000 in Itallan bonds, for which the elder Prisco was indicted Monday on a grand larceny charge.