District Attorney Briefs The Media On The Letterman Extortion Attempt
NEW YORK - OCTOBER 02: Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau (R) announces an indictment today against Robert "Joe" Halderman for an alleged blackmail plot against television personality David Letterman on October 2, 2009 in New York City. Halderman, a producer employed by CBS at the television news magazine "48 Hours," was caught in an undercover sting at a hotel in which he tried to extort $2 million from David Letterman by threatening to release information about sexual relations Lettermen had with female employees at work. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)