http://celebrityscandalnews.com/topic/joe-halderman2010-11-02T19:06:25Z2010-11-02T19:06:25ZhubPagetag:celebrityscandalnews.com,2010-11-02:/david-letterman-threatened-cbs-3774304a/

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2010-09-08T05:20:41ZReuters US Online Report Entertainment Newstag:celebrityscandalnews.com,2010-09-08:/lettermans-blackmailer-eyes-return-tv-news-1041918a/

<div><p><span><a title="Los Angeles" href="/topic/Los+Angeles" >LOS ANGELES</a></span> (<span><a title="The Hollywood Reporter" href="/topic/The+Hollywood+Reporter" >Hollywood Reporter</a></span>) - The TV producer who tried to blackmail <span><a title="David Letterman" href="/topic/David+Letterman" >David Letterman</a></span> is a free agent.</p><p><span><a title="Joe Halderman" href="/topic/Joe+Halderman" >Robert "Joe" Halderman</a></span> is out of jail, released for good behavior after servi...

2010-09-12T01:07:56ZForbestag:celebrityscandalnews.com,2010-09-12:/man-letterman-blackmail-plot-freed-ny-jail-1392756a/

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2010-09-02T09:21:23ZReuters US Online Report Entertainment Newstag:celebrityscandalnews.com,2010-09-02:/letterman-extortionist-released-ny-jail-1036764a/

<div><p><span>NEW YORK</span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a></span>) - A former television producer who tried to extort $2 million from talk show host <span><a title="David Letterman" href="/topic/David+Letterman" >David Letterman</a></span> over his affairs with women was released from jail on Thursday, a city correctional department spokesman said.</p><p><span><a title="Joe Halderman" href="/topic/Joe+Halderman" >Robert Joel Halderman</a></span...

2010-10-27T06:52:53ZiVillagetag:celebrityscandalnews.com,2010-10-27:/letterman-extortionist-sentenced-jail-3386137a/

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2010-06-12T14:35:43ZAP Newstag:celebrityscandalnews.com,2010-06-12:/tv-producer-sentenced-letterman-blackmail-plot-923018a/

<div id="subtitle">Former TV producer sentenced to 6 months in <a title="New York City" href="/topic/New+York+City" >NYC</a> jail for $2 million Letterman blackmail plot</div><div><p>The former <a title="CBS Corporation" href="/topic/CBS+Corporation" >CBS</a> television producer who tried to shake down <a title="David Letterman" href="/topic/David+Letterman" >David Letterman</a> over the comic icon's office affairs started a six-month jail sentence Tuesday, closing a case that opened Letterman's...

2010-06-12T16:49:39ZReuters US Online Report Entertainment Newstag:celebrityscandalnews.com,2010-06-12:/letterman-extortionist-sentenced-ny-6-months-924259a/

<div><p>NEW YORK (<a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a>) - A former television producer who tried to extort $2 million from <a title="United States" href="/topic/United+States" >U.S.</a> talk show host <a title="David Letterman" href="/topic/David+Letterman" >David Letterman</a> was sentenced Tuesday to six months in jail, the <a title="New York County District Attorney's Office" href="/topic/New+York+County+District+Attorney's+Office" >Manhattan District Atto...

2010-06-12T16:49:36ZReuters US Online Report Entertainment Newstag:celebrityscandalnews.com,2010-06-12:/accused-letterman-extortionist-pleads-guilty-867596a/

<div><p>NEW YORK (<a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a>) - A television producer pleaded guilty Tuesday to trying to extort $2 million from <a title="United States" href="/topic/United+States" >U.S.</a> talk show host <a title="David Letterman" href="/topic/David+Letterman" >David Letterman</a> by threatening to reveal his affairs with women who worked on his late-night program on <a title="CBS Corporation" href="/topic/CBS+Corporation" >CBS</a>.</p><p><a titl...

2010-10-27T06:52:00ZiVillagetag:celebrityscandalnews.com,2010-10-27:/david-lettermans-blackmailer-guilty-3385403a/

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2010-06-12T14:35:40ZAP Newstag:celebrityscandalnews.com,2010-06-12:/letterman-case-producer-handled-properly-867452a/

<div id="subtitle">Letterman says prosecutors 'appropriately' handled attempted extortion case against producer</div><div><p>From the start, <a title="David Letterman" href="/topic/David+Letterman" >David Letterman</a> made sure the story of a $2 million shakedown attempt over his sex life was one he narrated himself.</p><p>It was the comic, not prosecutors, who broke the news of the case, which spurred him last fall to acknowledge affairs with women on his staff.</p><p>After former television p...

2010-06-12T16:48:58ZReuters US Online Report Entertainment Newstag:celebrityscandalnews.com,2010-06-12:/letterman-case-trial-ny-judge-823956a/

<div><p>NEW YORK (<a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a>) - A <a title="New York" href="/topic/New+York" >New York</a> judge refused on Tuesday to toss out a case against a TV producer accused of a $2 million extortion attempt against <a title="David Letterman" href="/topic/David+Letterman" >David Letterman</a> over the talk show host's sexual affairs with co-workers.</p><p><a title="New York State Unified Court System" href="/topic/New+York+State+Unified+Court...

2010-06-12T14:35:26ZAP Newstag:celebrityscandalnews.com,2010-06-12:/nyc-judge-refuses-toss-letterman-extortion-case-822774a/

<div id="subtitle"><a title="New York City" href="/topic/New+York+City" >NYC</a> judge refuses to throw out case against suspect in <a title="David Letterman" href="/topic/David+Letterman" >David Letterman</a> extortion plot</div><div><p>A jury should get to decide whether a TV producer's dealings with David Letterman were attempted blackmail or just hard-nosed business, a judge ruled Tuesday.</p><p>In refusing to throw out an attempted grand larceny charge against producer <a title="Joe Halderm...

2010-06-12T16:48:59ZAP Newstag:celebrityscandalnews.com,2010-06-12:/nyc-judge-wont-toss-letterman-extort-case-823244a/

<div id="subtitle">NY judge says he won't toss case of suspect in <a title="David Letterman" href="/topic/David+Letterman" >David Letterman</a> extortion plot</div><div><p>A judge has turned down a TV producer's request to toss out a criminal case accusing him of blackmailing David Letterman over the comic's love life.</p><p><a title="Manhattan" href="/topic/Manhattan" >Manhattan</a> state Supreme Court Justice Charles Solomon ruled Tuesday on <a title="Joe Halderman" href="/topic/Joe+Halderman"...

2010-06-12T16:49:03ZAP Newstag:celebrityscandalnews.com,2010-06-12:/letterman-extortion-suspect-woods-scandal-797234a/

<div id="subtitle">Citing Woods scandal, Letterman extortion suspect says it's not a crime to sell silence</div><div><p>The TV producer accused of shaking down <a title="David Letterman" href="/topic/David+Letterman" >David Letterman</a> to keep mum about his affairs is drawing on the <a title="Tiger Woods" href="/topic/Tiger+Woods" >Tiger Woods</a> sex scandal to try to bolster his defense.</p><p>In court papers filed Tuesday, <a title="Joe Halderman" href="/topic/Joe+Halderman" >Robert "Joe" H...

2010-06-12T16:49:06ZAP Newstag:celebrityscandalnews.com,2010-06-12:/da-letterman-suspect-sought-mask-blackmail-780643a/

<div id="subtitle">DA: Man accused of blackmailing Letterman said transaction would look like business deal</div><div><p>A TV producer accused of trying to blackmail <a title="David Letterman" href="/topic/David+Letterman" >David Letterman</a> for $2 million said he needed money to visit his son and would mask the transaction as a business deal, prosecutors said Tuesday.</p><p><a title="Joe Halderman" href="/topic/Joe+Halderman" >Robert J. "Joe" Halderman</a> also told the comedian's lawyer he w...

2010-06-12T16:49:11ZAP Newstag:celebrityscandalnews.com,2010-06-12:/lawyer-letterman-suspect-shopping-screenplay-736448a/

<div id="subtitle">Lawyer: Producer accused in Letterman plot only trying to sell screenplay to 'Late Show' host</div><div><p><a title="David Letterman" href="/topic/David+Letterman" >David Letterman</a> was on the receiving end of a sales pitch, not a shakedown, a defense lawyer said Tuesday as he argued that a TV producer accused of extorting the comic was simply peddling a screenplay.</p><p><a title="Joe Halderman" href="/topic/Joe+Halderman" >Robert J. "Joe" Halderman</a>'s lawyer asked a ju...

2010-10-26T23:06:46ZiVillagetag:celebrityscandalnews.com,2010-10-26:/david-letterman-extortionist-hes-innocent-3351226a/

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2010-06-12T16:49:15ZAP Newstag:celebrityscandalnews.com,2010-06-12:/letterman-scheme-suspect-court-drop-case-736075a/

<div id="subtitle">News producer accused in Letterman scheme to ask <a title="New York City" href="/topic/New+York+City" >NYC</a> court to drop charge</div><div><p>A lawyer for the TV news producer accused of blackmailing <a title="David Letterman" href="/topic/David+Letterman" >David Letterman</a> plans to ask a judge to dismiss an extortion case that prompted the late-night comic to acknowledge affairs with staffers.</p><p><a title="Joe Halderman" href="/topic/Joe+Halderman" >Robert J. "Joe" H...

2010-06-12T16:49:18ZReuters US Online Report Entertainment Newstag:celebrityscandalnews.com,2010-06-12:/david-letterman-extortion-suspect-threatened-write-book-706380a/

<div><p>NEW YORK (<a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a>) - A television producer charged with attempting to extort $2 million from <a title="United States" href="/topic/United+States" >U.S.</a> talk-show host <a title="David Letterman" href="/topic/David+Letterman" >David Letterman</a> threatened to write a book about the TV star's affairs with employees, court documents showed on Thursday.</p><p>A <a title="Connecticut" href="/topic/Connecticut" >Connecticut<...

2010-06-12T16:49:18ZAP Newstag:celebrityscandalnews.com,2010-06-12:/court-files-blackmail-threats-alarmed-letterman-705490a/

<div id="subtitle">Court files: Letterman 'concerned' about impact blackmail threats would have on family, job</div><div><p><a title="David Letterman" href="/topic/David+Letterman" >David Letterman</a> felt "threatened, alarmed and concerned" about the impact to his family life and career after a newsman tried to blackmail him by disclosing his sexual affairs, according to court documents released Thursday.</p><p><a title="CBS Corporation" href="/topic/CBS+Corporation" >CBS News</a> producer <a ...

2010-06-12T16:49:21ZReuters US Online Report Domestic Newstag:celebrityscandalnews.com,2010-06-12:/david-letterman-wife-horribly-hurt-sex-scandal-694294a/

<div><p>NEW YORK (<a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a>) - Comedian <a title="David Letterman" href="/topic/David+Letterman" >David Letterman</a> said on Monday his wife has been "horribly hurt" by revelations of his sexual affairs exposed in an extortion plot against him and he apologized to staff of his popular late-night talk show.</p><p>The host of "<a title="Late Show with David Letterman" href="/topic/Late+Show+with+David+Letterman" >Late Show with David...

2010-06-11T23:28:40ZAP Newstag:celebrityscandalnews.com,2010-06-11:/halderman-swashbuckling-newsman-694511a/

<div id="subtitle">Producer in Letterman's case hard-driving newsman with fans, critics</div><div><p>The hard-driving newsman accused of trying to blackmail <a title="David Letterman" href="/topic/David+Letterman" >David Letterman</a> recently produced a piece on crime boss <a title="John Gotti, Sr." href="/topic/John+Gotti%2c+Sr." >John Gotti</a> and his family. Now he's using one of Gotti's former attorneys to defend himself.</p><p>Defense attorney <a title="Gerald Shargel" href="/topic/Gerald...

2010-06-12T16:49:18ZReuters US Online Report Top Newstag:celebrityscandalnews.com,2010-06-12:/letterman-wife-horribly-hurt-sex-scandal-694296a/

<div><p>NEW YORK (<a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a>) - Comedian <a title="David Letterman" href="/topic/David+Letterman" >David Letterman</a> said on Monday his wife has been "horribly hurt" by revelations of his sexual affairs exposed in an extortion plot against him and he apologized to staff of his popular late-night talk show.</p><p>The host of "<a title="Late Show with David Letterman" href="/topic/Late+Show+with+David+Letterman" >Late Show with David...

2010-06-12T14:35:37ZAP Newstag:celebrityscandalnews.com,2010-06-12:/letterman-target-kind-jokes-tells-690806a/

<div id="subtitle">Letterman becomes target of the kind of jokes he tells as newsman is accused in blackmail plot</div><div><p>Late-night hosts didn't waste a moment poking fun at the troubles of one of their own, after a <a title="CBS Corporation" href="/topic/CBS+Corporation" >CBS</a> newsman was charged with trying to blackmail <a title="David Letterman" href="/topic/David+Letterman" >David Letterman</a> for $2 million in a plot that forced the late-night comic to acknowledge having sex with ...

2010-06-12T16:49:31ZReuters US Online Report Top Newstag:celebrityscandalnews.com,2010-06-12:/suspect-letterman-extortion-pleads-guilty-691298a/

<div><p>NEW YORK (<a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a>) - A TV producer pleaded not guilty on Friday to a $2 million extortion attempt against talk show host <a title="David Letterman" href="/topic/David+Letterman" >David Letterman</a> a day after the comedian stunned Americans by revealing the plot -- and his sexual affairs with co-workers -- on his own show.</p><p><a title="Joe Halderman" href="/topic/Joe+Halderman" >Robert Joel Halderman</a>, a producer fo...

2010-06-12T16:49:25ZAFP Global Editiontag:celebrityscandalnews.com,2010-06-12:/top-producer-accused-talk-show-blackmail-691796a/

<div><p>A top TV producer was charged Friday with attempting to blackmail talk show star <a title="David Letterman" href="/topic/David+Letterman" >David Letterman</a> for having sex with female staffers in a case rocking the <a title="United States" href="/topic/United+States" >US</a> television world.</p><p><a title="Joe Halderman" href="/topic/Joe+Halderman" >Joe Halderman</a>, an <a title="Emmy Awards" href="/topic/Emmy+Awards" >Emmy Award-winning</a> producer for <a title="CBS Corporation" h...

2010-06-12T16:49:25ZAFP Global Editiontag:celebrityscandalnews.com,2010-06-12:/top-producer-indicted-talk-show-blackmail-691628a/

<div><p>A veteran <a title="CBS Corporation" href="/topic/CBS+Corporation" >CBS</a> producer was indicted Friday in the two million dollar blackmail of talk show host <a title="David Letterman" href="/topic/David+Letterman" >David Letterman</a>, who blew open the plot by confessing live on television to a string of extramarital affairs.</p><p>Letterman, more used to poking fun at others on his popular show, put himself in the firing line Thursday with the revelation that someone knew he was havi...

2010-06-12T16:49:28ZAP Newstag:celebrityscandalnews.com,2010-06-12:/cbs-employee-charged-letterman-extortion-plot-691491a/

<div id="subtitle">DA: <a title="CBS Corporation" href="/topic/CBS+Corporation" >CBS News</a> employee indicted in <a title="New York City" href="/topic/New+York+City" >NYC</a> in plot to extort $2M from <a title="David Letterman" href="/topic/David+Letterman" >David Letterman</a></div><div><p>A CBS News employee has been indicted in an extortion plot against David Letterman, who was forced to acknowledge sexual relationships with female staffers on his show after the man tried to blackmail him ...

2010-09-02T06:50:11ZAP Newstag:celebrityscandalnews.com,2010-09-02:/photo/letterman-extortion-2339754p/

FILE-In a Nov.10, 2009 file photo, <a title="Joe Halderman" href="/topic/Joe+Halderman" >Robert "Joe" Halderman</a>, who tried to blackmail <a title="David Letterman" href="/topic/David+Letterman" >David Letterman</a> over the comedian's office affairs, listens as his attorney <a title="Gerald Shargel" href="/topic/Gerald+Shargel" >Gerald Shargel</a> speaks to the media outside <a title="Manhattan" href="/topic/Manhattan" >Manhattan</a> criminal court following his court appearance in <a title="...

2010-06-12T21:29:38ZAP Newstag:celebrityscandalnews.com,2010-06-12:/photo/letterman-suspect-2181702p/

FILE - In this Oct. 2, 2009 file photo, <a title="Joe Halderman" href="/topic/Joe+Halderman" >Robert J. Halderman</a> is arraigned in State Supreme Court in <a title="New York" href="/topic/New+York" >New York</a> on charges of trying to blackmail <a title="David Letterman" href="/topic/David+Letterman" >David Letterman</a> for $2 million to keep quiet about the comic's sexual affairs. Halderman, a <a title="CBS Corporation" href="/topic/CBS+Corporation" >CBS</a> producer, pleaded guilty Tuesday...

2010-06-12T21:29:42ZGetty Imagestag:celebrityscandalnews.com,2010-06-12:/photo/judge-throws-letterman-blackmail-suspect-attempt-stop-trial-2061156p/

<a title="New York" href="/topic/New+York" >NEW YORK</a> - JANUARY 19: <a title="Joe Halderman" href="/topic/Joe+Halderman" >Robert "Joe" Halderman</a>, the accused blackmailer of <a title="David Letterman" href="/topic/David+Letterman" >David Letterman</a>, sits in a courtroom after <a title="Charles Solomon" href="/topic/Charles+Solomon" >Supreme Court Justice Charles Solomon</a> threw out an attempt stop the case January 19, 2010 in <a title="New York City" href="/topic/New+York+City" >New ...

2010-06-12T21:29:45ZAP Newstag:celebrityscandalnews.com,2010-06-12:/photo/correction-letterman-suspect-2061055p/

<a title="Joe Halderman" href="/topic/Joe+Halderman" >Robert "Joe" Halderman</a>, leaves <a title="Manhattan" href="/topic/Manhattan" >Manhattan</a> criminal court, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010, in <a title="New York" href="/topic/New+York" >New York</a>. Halderman, who was charged with attempted grand larceny for trying to extort $2 million from talk show host <a title="David Letterman" href="/topic/David+Letterman" >David Letterman</a>, was denied a dismissal by Manhattan state <a title="Charles Sol...

2010-06-12T21:29:56ZAP Newstag:celebrityscandalnews.com,2010-06-12:/photo/celebrity-extortions-2026301p/

FILE-This Nov.10, 2009 file photo shows <a title="Joe Halderman" href="/topic/Joe+Halderman" >Robert "Joe" Halderman</a> listening as his attorney <a title="Gerald Shargel" href="/topic/Gerald+Shargel" >Gerald Shargel</a> speaks to the media outside <a title="Manhattan" href="/topic/Manhattan" >Manhattan</a> criminal court following his court appearance in <a title="New York" href="/topic/New+York" >New York</a>. Halderman, who was charged with attempted grand larceny in the first degree for try...