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  1. Paul Kelly (born Franco Antonio Paolo Vaccarelli; December 23, 1876 – April 3, 1936) was an American mobster and former boxer, who founded the Five Points Gang in New York City. He had started some brothels with prize money earned in boxing. Five Points Gang was one of the first dominant street gangs in New York history.

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  2. The Real Father of Organized Crime in America. A dapper little man, Paul Kelly came from New York's seedy Five Points. Cunning and clever, Kelly was an inventive criminal, the first to conceive of crime as an organized business in the U.S. He became the first modern-day underworld boss, taking over the Five Points Gang at the turn of the 20 th ...

  3. Paul Kelly was an American mobster and former boxer, who founded the Five Points Gang in New York City. He had started some brothels with prize money earned in boxing. Five Points Gang was one of the first dominant street gangs in New York history. Kelly recruited young, poor men from the ethnically diverse immigrant neighborhoods of Lower Manhattan. The Five Points Gang included some who ...

  4. Paul Kelly. Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas. Paul Kelly. Paolo Antonio Vaccarelli, better known as Paul Kelly (1876 – 1936), was an early New York City Mafiosi who started off as a boxer, invested his prize money in a string of brothels, then founded the Five Points Gang – the Big Apple’s last dominant street gang.

  5. Paul Kelly (born Paolo Antonio Vaccarelli) was an Sicilian immigrant who founded the Five Points Gang in New York City after starting some brothels with priz...

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