Accused shakedown artists face law

Accused shakedown artists face law
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Title: Accused shakedown artists face law
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Caption: "Accused shakedown artists face law--Arrested as alleged extortionists who blackmailed doctors on threat they would be arrested as abortionists, Robert Maloney, Bruno Makan, Doris Aviron, and Robert Murphy, left to right, are booked at Elizabeth St. Station, Manhattan. Murphy and Makan, both Brooklynites, posed as cops, real cops said."

Date: 1954
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Brooklyn eagle.
More Details: Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched.
Stamped on verso: date: Sep[t] 28, 1954; "Brooklyn Eagle."
Title from caption on verso.
Collection: Crime
Subject: Criminals
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Rights: Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library.
ID: CRIM 0066