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Charles "Babe" Baron was an organized crime figure in Chicago

Chicago

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, Illinois

Illinois

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, who, owning a successful car dealership as well as holding the rank of Brigadier-General in the Illinois National Guard

Illinois National Guard

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, was involved in illegal gambling

Gambling

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as a handbook operator for the Chicago Outfit

Chicago Outfit

The Chicago Outfit, also known as the Chicago Syndicate or Chicago Mob and sometimes shortened to simply the Outfit, is a crime syndicate based in Chicago, Illinois, USA...

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Along with Dave Yaras and Lenny Patrick

Leonard Patrick

Leonard "Lenny" Patrick was an American mobster, a member of the Chicago Outfit involved in bookmaking and extortion and later a government informant.Emigrating with his family from England...

, Baron served as a protege to Democratic Party

Democratic Party (United States)

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ward boss Jacob Arvey

Jacob Arvey

Jacob M. Arvey was aninfluential Chicago political leader from the Depression era until the mid-1950s. He may be best-known for his efforts to end corruption in the Chicago Democratic organization, and for promoting the candidacies of liberal Democratic politicians such as Adlai Stevenson and...

. Baron was an associate of Meyer Lansky

Meyer Lansky

Meyer Lansky , known as the "Mob's Accountant", was a Polish-born American organized crime figure who, along with his associate Charles "Lucky" Luciano, was instrumental in the development of the "National Crime Syndicate" in the United States...

.(see: Peter Dale Scott, 1993:199) He was also a close associate of Patrick Hoy, a Henry Crown

Henry Crown

Henry Crown was an American industrialist and philanthropist. Among other things, he founded the Material Service Corporation, which merged with General Dynamics in 1959. At the time of his death, he was a billionaire...

employee of General Dynamics

General Dynamics

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who was later able to arrange a job for Sidney Korshak

Sidney Korshak

Sidney R. Korshak was a labor lawyer and "fixer" for businessmen in the upper echelons of power and the Chicago Outfit in the United States. His reputation as the Chicago mob's man in Los Angeles made him one of Hollywood's most fabled and influential fixers...

at the Hilton Hotels

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Twice arrested for murder, including that of bootlegger

Rum-running

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James Walsh, whom he shot and killed following a prize fight in 1929, and of North Side Gang

North Side Gang

The North Side family Gang, also known as the North Side Mob, was the dominant Irish-American criminal organization within Chicago during the Prohibition era from the early to late 1920s and principal rival of the Johnny Torrio-Al Capone organization, later known as the Chicago Outfit.- Early...

financier 'Smiling' Gus Winkler

Gus Winkler

Gus Winkler was a St. Louis mobster who, with Fred “Killer” Burke, was head of a criminal gang specializing in armed robbery and murder for hire....

, on October 9, 1933,http://www.americanmafia.com/Feature_Articles_168.html Baron was identified as an associate of John Roselli

John Roselli

John "Handsome Johnny" Roselli , sometimes spelled John Rosselli, was an influential mobster for the Chicago Outfit who helped them control Hollywood and the Las Vegas Strip. Roselli was also involved with the Central Intelligence Agency plot to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro in the early 1960s...

during the Kefauver Hearings

Kefauver hearings

The United States Senate Special Committee to Investigate Crime in Interstate Commerce was a special committee of the United States Senate which existed from 1950 to 1951 and which investigated organized crime which crossed state borders in the United States...

, in the 1950s.

According to Jack Ruby

Jack Ruby

Jacob Leon Rubenstein , who legally changed his name to Jack Leon Ruby in 1947, was convicted of the November 24, 1963 murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy. Ruby, who was originally from Chicago, Illinois, was then a nightclub operator in Dallas, Texas...

and Baron associate Tony Zoppi, Baron knew U.S. Air Force General Curtis LeMay

Curtis LeMay

Curtis Emerson LeMay was a general in the United States Air Force and the vice presidential running mate of American Independent Party candidate George Wallace in 1968....

.(see: Peter Dale Scott, 1993:199, 355)

A former general manager of the Havana Riviera
Hotel Habana Riviera
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in pre-revolutionary Cuba

Cuba

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, Baron was one of the first to be granted a gaming license by the Gaming Control Act, in 1960, and served as the official greeter of the Sands Hotel
Sands Hotel
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and Casino, in Las Vegas

Las Vegas metropolitan area

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, under Joseph "Doc" Stacher

Joseph Stacher

Joseph "Doc" Stacher was a Jewish syndicate leader who helped bring together the Jewish and Italian Mafia into a national organized crime syndicate....

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