I read where Letterman gave Halderman a 2 million dollar check, made to bounce, claiming that he was being blackmailed.
I mean think about this for a minute. If I am trying to black mail you, why would I ask that the payment be made by check!!!!!! :-)))))))))
Halderman was apparently selling Letteman a script involving a late night comedian who was having affairs with staff members.
I think that’s a cleaver way to tell the guy to quit seeing my girl friend, or else we’re going to produce this script.
How is this extortion. Sounds like good undercover work.
This is going to get really good, as the girls testify about how egg head howdy doody looking Letterman had them into his kinky sex games.
Wait for the SNL spoof that is bound to come.
I never liked Letteman from the first day he came on the air. I have never found him funny. The way he would position his desk hire than that of the guests.
OTOH, $2 million in $100 bills measures 2 feet by 1 foot by 1 foot. In Euros, it would fit into a small backpack.
You want to raise red flags all over the place? Try and withdrawl $2,000,000 in cash. Then try and deposit it without a mark. How would you like to have to hide $2 Million dollars that is illegal and must be cleaned and taxed before you can deposit it. Or, you just pay taxes on it and forget it. Either way, there is a trail.
It would have been much smarter for him to purchase property for $2 and flip it for the property value if he was trying to lose a money trail. But there is paperwork there too.
The thing about extorsion is your subject must care about his reputation enough to let go of a minute amount of his fortune.
You are soooo right.
And Halderman probably has all kinds of records showing the negotiations for the script and so on.
Ain’t against the law to write a screenplay.
Remember “Primary Colors”?
Hell, even Madonna supposedly tried to pay her brother off not to write a tell-all book about what a witch she is.
-PJ
Sorry Beaver, Haldeman came up with the "script" idea after the girlfriend left him.