affirmed: "As an organizer and administrator of underworld affairs, Johnny Torrio is unsurpassed in the annals of American crime; he was probably the...
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by 1970, replaced by the Mafia. The Mafia was initially organized by Johnny Torrio and further organized by Al Capone into the extant Chicago Outfit sometime...
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Chicago Outfit (section Prohibition and Johnny Torrio)
Italian-American Mafia. The Outfit rose to power in the 1920s under the control of Johnny Torrio and Al Capone, and the period was marked by bloody gang wars for control...
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assassinated on May 11, 1920, and no one was ever charged with his murder. Johnny Torrio, an enforcer whom Colosimo imported in 1909 from New York, seized control...
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South Side Policy racket king. 1884 – Founding Outfit leader Donato "Johnny" Torrio, nicknamed "The Fox", who the source author would call "the father of...
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American television actor, director, producer, and writer. He portrayed Johnny Torrio in Boardwalk Empire in every season, from 2010 to 2014, and as Phil...
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Luciano. The character is based on Meyer Lansky. Greg Antonacci portrays Johnny Torrio, Capone's boss in Chicago. Enid Graham portrays Rose Van Alden (seasons...
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known as the Chicago Outfit, the crime syndicate of Italian-Americans Johnny Torrio and Al Capone. Like many other Chicago-based Prohibition gangs, the...
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his early twenties, Capone moved to Chicago and became a bodyguard of Johnny Torrio, head of a criminal syndicate that illegally supplied alcohol—the forerunner...
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November 10, 1924) was an American mobster who was the main rival of Johnny Torrio and Al Capone during the brutal Chicago bootlegging wars of the 1920s...
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