(Memo to self: stock up on popcorn this winter)
“Why a Check?”
Why a duck?
Maybe Dave goes both ways?
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I’m sure he was investigating Letterman for a sensational story to be broadcast later.
Wow... it took them a few days to come up with a good story, but if he is able to pull this off (spinning it as a ‘sale’ of a screenplay) he has big brass ones.
Haldeman who once produced 48 Hours for CBS will soon be doing 48 Years for NYS.
Because if he was paid by check he could offer this exact lame defense.
It’s sort of like someone “selling” you compromising photos for an exorbitant price. Sorry, the idiots, both of them, are getting what they deserve. Letterman’s wife probably doesn’t deserve this humiliation, but she knew what she was marrying.
He’ll do better next time.
This was the part I couldn’t understand. No idiot would take a check...they’d all demand cash, and usually moved to a Swiss numbered account. Things about this episode don’t add up.
How would you even walk into a bank and try to cash a $2 million check?
But you know....I have this script about a woeful pretender comedian who is having affairs on the side. Would you know anyone interested in buying the script?
So the guy "sold" Dave a screenplay for $2 million. Of course he would take a check, declare the money on his income taxes, etc. Otherwise, is he going to try to spend $2 million in cash, and not draw suspicions?
Still ex torsion.
That's it? That was the "blackmail" threat?
It's this is really true, then Haldeman is going to have an expensive legal fight on his hands -- but unless his jury is full of Letterman fans, he is probably going to walk.
It was dumb, but it wasn't blackmail unless Haldeman expressly threatened to expose Letterman's past.
Letterman was buying from him the rights of the screenplay.
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.
If it really was a check, it must be drawn from some financial institution. Force bankers to testify. Follow the money.
I read that quote I thought it sounded familiar. Sure enough, I went back and looked and I said almost the exact same thing - Suspect's lawyer: Dave (Letterman) is master of manipulation(post #3) - on Monday...
"Not commenting on the probable guilt or innocence of this guy, but he may very well be the first alleged extortionist in the history of extortion that accepted a check from his mark. Doesn't that seem odd to anyone else?"I wonder if this guy's attorney reads FreeRepublic.
Yes, he does have a point. Very interesting!
hahaha thats what i thought.... a check???
NUFF SAID!
There is more than likely more to the story. I’m waiting for “the rest of the story” to unfold.
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.