Editing Johnny Torrio (section)

{{Short description|Italian mob boss}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2024}}
{{Infobox criminal
| name              = Johnny Torrio
| image_name        = Johnny Torrio - 1939.jpg
| image_caption     = Torrio in 1939
| birth_name        = Donato Torrio
| birth_date        = {{birth date|1882|1|20|mf=y}}
| birth_place       = [[Montepeloso]], [[Basilicata]], [[Kingdom of Italy]]
| death_date        = {{death date and age|1957|4|16|1882|1|20|mf=y}}
| death_place       = [[New York City]], U.S.<!--No boroughs/neighborhoods, just cities per format.-->
| resting_place     = [[Green-Wood Cemetery]], Brooklyn, U.S.
| other_names       = The Fox<br />The Brain<br />Papa Johnny<br />Terrible Johnny<br />The Immune
| occupation        = [[Crime boss]]
| allegiance        = [[Chicago Outfit]]
| spouse            = {{marriage|Anna Theodosia Jacobs|1912}}
| conviction        = [[Tax evasion]] (1939)
| conviction_penalty = 2 years' imprisonment (1939)
| criminal_status   = Released
| predecessor       = [[Big Jim Colosimo]]
| successor         = [[Al Capone]]
}}

'''John Donato Torrio'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.myalcaponemuseum.com/id198.htm|title=John D. Torrio's Personal items|website=My Al Capone Museum|quote=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.|access-date=March 18, 2020}}</ref> (born '''Donato Torrio''', {{IPA|it|doˈnaːto ˈtɔrrjo|lang}}; January 20, 1882 – April 16, 1957) was an Italian-born mobster who helped build the [[Chicago Outfit]] in the 1920s later inherited by his protégé [[Al Capone]].<ref name=pleads>{{cite news |agency=[[Associated Press]] |date=April 12, 1939 |title=John Torrio Pleads Guilty |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NchOAAAAIBAJ&pg=7083,1877925&dq=johnny+torrio&hl=en |access-date=August 6, 2012|quote=Johnny (the Immune) Torrio, deciding he wasn't immune to relentless government prosecution, pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court...}}</ref> Torrio proposed a [[National Crime Syndicate]] in the 1930s and later became an adviser to [[Lucky Luciano]] and his [[Genovese crime family|Luciano crime family]].

Torrio had several nicknames, primarily "The Fox" for his cunning and finesse.<ref>{{cite book|last=Nelli|first=Humbert S.|title=The business of crime|publisher=University of Chicago Press|year=1981|page=163}}</ref> The [[United States Department of the Treasury|US Treasury]] official [[Elmer Lincoln Irey|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."<ref>{{cite book|last=Folsom|first=Robert G.|title=The Money Trail|publisher=Potomac Books|year=2010|page=231}}</ref> 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".<ref>{{cite book|last=Peterson|first=Virgil W.|title=The mob: 200 years of organized crime in New York|publisher=Green Hill Publishers|year=1983|page=156}}</ref> 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".<ref>{{cite book|last1=Johnson|first1=Curt|last2=Sautter|first2=R. Craig|title=Wicked City Chicago: From Kenna to Capone|publisher=December Press|year=1994|page=363}}</ref>