Dave was working under cover, this is his costume ...
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 ...
(Memo to self: stock up on popcorn this winter)
“Why a Check?”
Why a duck?
Maybe Dave goes both ways?
Has Bernie Madoff weighed in on this?
No no, they met under a viaduct.
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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.
Ditto (is my opinion also). It was blackmail lightly veiled as a “screenplay sale,” but Dave was meant to understand it as a demand for hush money.
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!
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