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. Torrio had several nicknames, primarily 'The Fox' for his cunning and finesse. Torrio proposed a National Crime Syndicate in the 1930s and later became an adviser to Lucky Luciano and his Luciano crime family. John Donato Torrio (born Donato Torrio, Italian: Janu– 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.
