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Tue 03 Mar 2010Man guilty of Letterman blackmail
A television producer pleaded guilty today to trying to extort $2 million from US talk show host David Letterman by threatening to reveals his affairs with women who worked on his late-night programme on CBS.
Robert Joel Halderman, a producer for the CBS news show 48 Hours Mystery, reached an agreement with prosecutors in which he pleaded guilty to attempted grand larceny in exchange for serving six months in jail, performing 1,000 hours of community service and giving up his right to appeal.
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