Nicodemo Donato Brasco It's been 33 long hard years for Nicky, He was born in Palermo and stayed there for 4 years Living with his Mom. His birth Mom was abusive to Nicky's Dad, so his Dad moved to Catania with Nicky and married a woman. Nicky was happy and lived there until he was 24, His Dad was pressuring him to get a job. Nicky was a dropout student at the age of 16 and never went to university. Nicky knew that he had no hope finding a job, and he wasn't going to stick around and be some janitor. So he left Sicily and his family and went straight to New York where his distant cousin, Johnny Mariano, held a mob. The mob was small at first, but it grew bigger as more people joined. Nicky never saw himself being into crime but it was probably the only possible way of him making money and enjoying it. He started as just an associate, after his skills were proven to Johnny, he was made a soldier of his crew. Nicky has 1 step sister living in Sicily, and his dad disliked him going to New York, always asking him to come back. Nick won't go back to Sicily unless something happens to the family and he has to move to a different country.