Re: the question, since deleted, about the ancestry of the Scoppa brothers.

The Quebec poster eurodave had written in this thread a number of years ago that the Scoppas were from the Catanzaro area. Andrew Scoppa’s Canadian passport shows that he was born in Badolato, which is a town in the province of Catanzaro. Not sure whether younger brother Salvatore was also born there.

The brothers’ mother, whose maiden name is Scrufari, was likely also born in Badolato. If not, other possibilities are the towns of Reggio di Calabria, Porto Melito di Salvo, Malito, Bagaladi, and others.

Given that the Scoppas’ father deserted the family when his children were young and that his wife and children lived in poverty, I’m not holding my breath that the Scoppas had roots in the ‘ndrangheta — far from it.