Gregory Scarpa Sr was born to first-generation immigrants from the impoverished village of Lorenzaga of Motta di Livenza near Venice, Italy.

Joey Doves what you say is right but it was only until there was the first generation of mobsters who spoke little English and we spoke to each other only in Sicily, but starting from the 50s with the second generations that only spoke in English and only a few words in the dialect, began to see if a person was able to kill,to keep his mouth shut and to be a good earner for the family, seeing only if the man is full-blooded (if both parents were Italian without worrying about which part of Italy were from)