Thomas Doyle, a man who was once described by a federal judge as a “career criminal,” pleaded guilty Friday to wire fraud in a scheme involving a Gustave Courbet painting that eventually ended up in the collection of Jon Landau, Bruce Springsteen’s longtime manager.
According to the New York Times, Doyle persuaded London dealer Patrick Matthiesen to send him Courbet’s Mother and Child on a Hammock, painted around 1848, after promising to brok…
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