Carlyle Bust Joins Storied Line of Hotel Gambling Rings
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April 24 (Bloomberg) -- Last week, Federal Bureau ofInvestigation agents descended on the Helly Nahmad Gallery atthe Carlyle Hotel on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
Hillel “Helly” Nahmad, the gallery’s owner, was chargedwith running a high-stakes gambling operation in New York andLos Angeles that attracted multimillionaires and billionaires.Though the gallery was only a tenant of the hotel, theallegations -- which include suggestions that Nahmad coordinatedhis efforts with powerful Russian mobsters -- evoke the longintertwined history of hospitality, gangsters and games ofchance.