Charles Baron
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Charles "Babe" Baron was an organized crime figure in Chicago who, owing a successful car dealership as well as holding the rank of brigadier-general in the Illinois National Guard, was involved in illegal gambling as a handbook operator for the Chicago Outfit. Along with David Yarras and Lenny Patrick, Baron served as a protege to Democratic ward boss Jake Arvey. He was also a close associate of Patrick Hoy, a Henry Crown employee of General Dynamics who was later able to arrainge a job for Sidney Korshack at the Hilton Hotels.
Twice arrested for murder, including that of bootlegger James Walsh whom he shot and killed following a prize fight in 1929 and of North Side Gang finacier Gus Winkler in 1932 [1], he was identified as an associate of John Roselli during the Kefauver Hearings during the 1950s.
A former general manager of the Havana Riviera in pre-revolutionary Cuba, he was one of the first to be granted a gaming licence by the Gaming Control Act in 1960 and served as the official greeter of the Sands casino under Joseph "Doc" Stacher [2].
[edit] Further reading
- Rothman, Hal. Neon Metropolis: how Las Vegas started the twenty-first century. London: Routledge, 2002. ISBN 0-415-92612-2
- Scott, Peter Dale. Deep Politics and the Death of JFK. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. ISBN 0-520-08410-1
