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/ Less than 24 hours before leaving office Donald Trump granted pardons to dozens of convicted criminals including the gallerist Helly Nahmad. The Art dealer was jailed for a year in a federal correctional facility but only spent five months of his sentence. He was arrested and tried for operating an illegal gambling ring, with Russian gangsters, potentially worth millions, from his New York apartment, located in Trump Tower. In 2013, Nahmad, 36, pleaded guilty to one count of operating an illegal gambling business. Top Photo: P C Robinson © Artlyst 2021 Photo: © Sylvain Deleu Artlyst 202...

Helly Nahmad in front of a Picasso painting. Photo courtesy of Helly Nahmad Gallery. In an 11th-hour act, President Donald Trump has pardoned art dealer Helly Nahmad, who was sentenced in 2014 to a year and a day in prison after pleading guilty to a single federal gambling charge. Nahmad, a member of the Nahmad family dynasty and the son of art collector David Nahmad, was caught co-organizing an illegal gambling ring worth $100 million out of Trump Tower in New York. He owns the entirety of the building’s 51st floor, which reportedly cost a collective $21 million. “President Trump gran...

Helly Nahmad leaves court in 2014 © AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano The New York-based dealer Hillel Nahmad, known as Helly Nahmad, received a pardon yesterday from President Trump in his final hours in office. In April 2014, Nahmad was sentenced to a year and a day in prison after pleading guilty to a federal gambling charge; he was released from prison after serving five months. Helly Nahmad, who reportedly spent over $21m buying the entire 51st floor of Trump Tower in New York, was one of several suspects accused of playing a leadership role in a $100m gambling and money laun...

David Nahmad is an art dealer who purports to have the world’s…

Inside David Nahmad’s Personal Art Collection David Nahmad in Paris. Photo: New York Times WHERE TO FIND Total Shares David Nahmad is an art dealer who purports to have the world's largest private collection of paintings by famed master Pablo Picasso. And this remains the case even after he let go of one of those paintings, a decision that was the recent subject of an interview with the Associated Press. Nahmad last year, let go of Nature Morte, a 1921 Picasso oil-on-canvas painting that Nahmad says he doesn't specifically remember his rationale in buying: "We bought so many Picassos now, ...