CBS Producer Pleads Guilty in David Letterman Extortion Case
March 09, 2010, 2:39 PM ESTBy Karen Freifeld
March 9 (Bloomberg) -- CBS Corp. Producer Robert “Joe” Halderman pleaded guilty to second-degree larceny for trying to extort $2 million from David Letterman after he drafted a screenplay treatment about the talk show host’s personal life.
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