Torrio y al capone biography

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    Johnny Torrio


    Giovanni Torrio was born in Italy on January 20, 1882. At the age of two his father passed away and he moved to New York with his mother. His name was switched to Johnny after the move so that he sounded more “American.” Torrio began running with the James Street Gang when he was in his teens to make money.

    While running errands for the James Street Gang, Torrio saved enough money to open a local pool hall/gambling den. He began running an illegal gambling operation which caught the eye of local Mafia Capo, Paul Kelly. Soon Torrio became Kelly’s number two and right hand man in the operation. Kelly taught Torrio how to be more sophisticated by not swearing so much, dressing professionally, and how to front as a legitimate business owner.

    Soon Torrio left the operation on good terms with Kelly and began his own operation that involved bookmaking, loan sharking, hijacking, prostitution, and opium trafficking. Eventually, a local kid by the name of Al Capone began wo

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    Al Capone

    Al Capone was born in 1899 in Brooklyn, New York. After leaving school in sixth grade, he spent his time as a gang member in two gangs: the Brooklyn Rippers and the Forty Thieves Juniors. After working as a bouncer, he ended up working for a man named Johnny Torrio. When Torrio invited Capone to join him in Chicago in 1920, Capone accepted. tillsammans, the two started working for Big Jim Colosimo’s gang, taking advantage of Prohibition bygd distributing brottsligt liquor.

    Colosimo was assassinated, leaving the high-ranking Torrio in charge. However, this arrangement did not last long. In 1925, Torrio was the victim of another assassination attempt. Weakened bygd this, Torrio asked Capone to become the new boss. Capone, charismatic as he was, was liked among the men, who called him, “The Big Fellow.”

    With Capone’s help, they managed to expand their industry so far that Capone even ventured into legitimate investments, with a dye factory. He built a terrifying reputation for him

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    Johnny Torrio

    Italian mob boss

    John Donato Torrio[1] (born Donato Torrio, Italian:[doˈnaːtoˈtɔrrjo]; 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.[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 admin

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