Robert “Joe” Halderman , who tried to extort $2 million from David Letterman last fall, will be pleading guilty. He has evidently given up on his “just-selling-a-screenplay” excuse.
Halderman will serve six months in jail, plus four and a half years of probation and 1,000 hours of community service.
Today, Yuletide visits from the ghosts of Crime Waves past.
Such as: attempted extorter Robert Halderman. According to tapes that prosecuters released yesterday, he apparently believed Dave Letterman might try to kill him.
“As I said to you, the only way to be sure I never talk to anybody is for somebody to kill me,” Read More
Over the past year, Armen Keteyian, the chief investigative correspondent for CBS News, has reported on cyber-thieves in New Jersey, murder-for-hire plots in Wisconsin and teenage bomb-makers in Atlanta. But these days, Mr. Keteyian is hard at work on a story much closer to home—namely, alleged blackmail plots within his own newsroom.
On Oct.3, Read More
You can’t be victimized by criminals, explained David Letterman on the Late Show Monday night. You have to push back.
Outside the fortified walls of the Ed Sullivan Theater, a full moon hung in the sky. Mr. Letterman must have been tired. For the past several weeks, not only had he been pushing back, Read More
As the dust settles, Felix Gilette tries to figure out Robert Halderman, the man behind the blackmail:
Friends and colleagues described Mr. Halderman as a sharp-witted guy who was always up for having fun. “Joe’s a friendly, boisterous, slap-you-on-the-back kind of guy,” said another former colleague. “Sort of a Vince Vaughn type, but Read More
What would you think if you found out one morning that your golfing buddy was trying to shake down David Letterman?
That’s the surreal position that a number of CBS News employees found themselves in earlier today, following the stunning cascade of events that began Thursday night when the host of Late Night Read More
