Posted on 10/08/2009 11:26:26 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
The lawyer for Robert Joe Haldeman, the blackmailer accusing of extorting David Letterman says the gap toothed funny man's not telling the full story!
"Here's a guy who is an Emmy Award winning journalist, who has dealt with cops and wiretaps and undercover investigations virtually his entire life," Haldeman's defense attorney Gerald Shargel said today.
Shargel alleged that Letterman wasn't telling the whole story in last week's confessional that he was being blackmailed.
Cops say 48 Hours Mystery producer Haldeman offered to "sell" Letterman a "screenplay treatment" about the comedian's affairs with Late Show staffers including Dave and Haldeman ex Stephanie Birkitt.
In a sting operation, Halderman was busted depositing a check "designed to bounce" at his local bank, prosecutors said.
"There was a $2 million check," Shargel explained further.
"In the history of extortion, I don't think there's been a single case where the alleged extortionist took a check in payment.
"It just doesn't make any sense."
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalenquirer.com ...
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Well, I don’t know why a no chicken; I’m a stranger here myself. All I know is that it’s a viaduct. You try to cross over there a chicken and you’ll find out why a duck.
hahaha thats what i thought.... a check???
lol
NUFF SAID!
There is more than likely more to the story. I’m waiting for “the rest of the story” to unfold.
It was dumb, but it wasn’t blackmail unless Haldeman expressly threatened to expose Letterman’s past.
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Ummmm, wasn’t the “screenplay” exactly that, exposing Letterman’s past (as in the affairs he had with his staffers)?
It was a fake check. The cops arrested Haldeman when he tried to deposit it, as it was apparently the "evidence" they wanted to establish intent to commit a crime (blackmail, not fraud).
But, I'm still skeptical. The prosecution is going to have to prove that Haldeman intended to harm Letterman if he didn't buy the "screenplay". Unless he made the threat explicitly, I'm not sure that charge will stick.
Haldeman did do one thing wrong: he reportedly "contacted" Letterman by leaving a package on/in his car. He should have sent it FedEx, if he wanted it to look legit.
I wouldn’t believe a thing out of Letterman’s rotten mouth. That man is sick. The screen play sounds closer to the truth and Letterman is trying to spin it out. And if so, then that turd just didn’t care about another human and jail him to save his own a@@. What an a@@. Hope the truth comes out in court.
Doesn’t that offer Halderman plausible deniablity? Better than getting caught with marked bills.
Halderman’s excuse was going to be he actually “sold” the one page screen play to Letterman. That Letterman agreed.
While the story is sure to become more sordid, I cannot imagine a scenario where Letterman is the perp.
Sure, but he offered it to Dave. If he didn’t explicitly threaten to give it to someone else, did he attempt extortion?
Those 404 errors make me SO mad...madder than a 784 error, for sure.
A $2,000,000 check bounced. David Letterman’s credit is going to suck.
What’s the penalty for kiting a check that large?
Cops helped Letterman in fake check sting operation to nail Haldeman ? And Halderman is ex- boyfriend of Letterman staffer ?
This is gonna get real good —
Maybe Dave offered to buy the guy’s script and actually make it a movie.
Yeah, kind of like the end of The Player. “Am I guaranteed that ending? Then we have a deal.”
he was basically telling letterman, "gimme 2 mill or i go to the press."
LOL, I just had this image of someone turning the 'screenplay' into a porno.
Who do you suppose would play Dave's part?
Nobody is stupid enough to accept a CHECK for an extortion payoff, are they?
Something just isn't square in this story.
Letterman thought it was extortion and this guy thought it was a business deal. Elcheapo decided he didn’t want buy it from Halderman and cries extortion.
That's certainly Halderman's defense. He used his skills in investigative TV journalism to amass a damaging profile of Letterman the goat. It turns out to be a tough sell as a TV expose. So Halderman figures to get paid for his effort he'll "pitch" it to WorldWide Pants. Maybe they'd be "interested"?
It's still extortion even if thinly veiled as a business proposition.
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