Robert Joel "Joe" Halderman attends a hearing in a Manhattan criminal court in New York November 10, 2009. Halderman, a television producer, is charged with attempting to extort $2 million from U.S. talk-show host David Letterman and threatened to write a book about the TV star's affairs with employees, court documents have shown.
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