The Fox The Brain Papa Johnny Terrible Johnny The Immune
Occupation
Crime boss
Predecessor
Big Jim Colosimo
Successor
Al Capone
Criminal status
Released
Spouse
Anna Theodosia Jacobs
(m. 1912)
Allegiance
Chicago Outfit
Conviction(s)
Tax evasion (1939)
Criminal penalty
2 years' imprisonment (1939)
John Donato Torrio[1] (born Donato Torrio, Italian:[doˈnaːtoˈtɔrrjo]; January 20, 1882 – April 16, 1957) was an Italian-born American mobster who helped build the Chicago Outfit in the 1920s later inherited by his protégé Al Capone.[2] Torrio proposed a National Crime Syndicate in the 1930s and later became an adviser to Lucky Luciano and his Luciano crime family.
Torrio had several nicknames, primarily "The Fox" for his cunning and finesse.[3] The US Treasury official Elmer Irey considered him "the biggest gangster in America" and wrote, "He was the smartest and, I dare say, the best of all the hoodlums. 'Best' referring to talent, not morals".[4] Virgil W. Peterson of the Chicago Crime Commission stated that his "talents as an organizational genius were widely respected by the major gang bosses in the New York City area".[5] Crime journalist Herbert Asbury affirmed: "As an organizer and administrator of underworld affairs, Johnny Torrio is unsurpassed in the annals of American crime; he was probably the nearest thing to a real mastermind that this country has yet produced".[6]
^"John D. Torrio's Personal items". My Al Capone Museum. Retrieved March 18, 2020. Always known as John, his real name at birth was Donato Torrio. This fact was found in the registry office at Irsina (Montepeloso) [...] The name John was later added when arriving to America.
^"John Torrio Pleads Guilty". Associated Press. April 12, 1939. Retrieved August 6, 2012. Johnny (the Immune) Torrio, deciding he wasn't immune to relentless government prosecution, pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court...
^Nelli, Humbert S. (1981). The business of crime. University of Chicago Press. p. 163.
^Folsom, Robert G. (2010). The Money Trail. Potomac Books. p. 231.
^Peterson, Virgil W. (1983). The mob: 200 years of organized crime in New York. Green Hill Publishers. p. 156.
^Johnson, Curt; Sautter, R. Craig (1994). Wicked City Chicago: From Kenna to Capone. December Press. p. 363.
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assassinated on May 11, 1920, and no one was ever charged with his murder. JohnnyTorrio, an enforcer whom Colosimo imported in 1909 from New York, seized control...
Italian-American Mafia. The Outfit rose to power in the 1920s under the control of JohnnyTorrio and Al Capone, and the period was marked by bloody gang wars for control...
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who later became prominent criminals in their own right, including JohnnyTorrio, Al Capone, and Lucky Luciano. The area of Manhattan where four streets...
steamfitters' union during the early 1910s and was instrumental in the rise of JohnnyTorrio, who provided Enright with invaluable political protection from Chicago's...
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Capone moved to Chicago and became a bodyguard and trusted factotum for JohnnyTorrio, head of a criminal syndicate that illegally supplied alcohol—the forerunner...
area working as the muscle for Dean O'Banion's organization and in JohnnyTorrio's organization. Shea Whigham as Elias "Eli" Thompson is Nucky's younger...
lack of evidence. Although suspected by authorities to have involved the Torrio-Capone organization, Chicago labor union racketeer James Vinci is eventually...
founded after a conference was hosted in Atlantic City by Luciano, JohnnyTorrio, Lansky, and Costello in May 1929. In October 1929, Luciano was forced...
Nitti came to the attention of Chicago crime boss John "Papa Johnny" Torrio and Torrio's newly arrived soldier, Al Capone. Nitti, being a newcomer, and...
headquarters of the On Leong Merchant Association is moved to N.Y, New York. JohnnyTorrio, under the alias J.T. McCarthy, opens a saloon on New York's James Street...
alliance was destroyed by New York's underworld. In the late 1920s, JohnnyTorrio helped to organize a loose cartel of East Coast bootleggers, the Big...
an American crime figure of Italian descent. He was associated with JohnnyTorrio, Big Jim Colosimo, Frankie Yale and Al Capone during the Prohibition...
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