david letterman scandal

He may have a tough time landing a new job -- we'll assume future employment at CBS is a long shot -- but Robert "Joe" Halderman, the former '48 Hours' CBS producer who tried to blackmail David Letterman, has been freed from the hoosegow.

Halderman, 52, had been sentenced to serve six months at Rikers Island jail in New York after admitting to trying to soak 'The Late Show' host for $2 million to keep Letterman's affairs with his staffers a secret. But after serving four months, Halderman was given time off for good behavior and released on Thursday, and will now begin completing 1,000 hours of community service.

And try to get a new job, obviously.

The scary-looking man to the right who looks like he's trying to swallow your soul through your computer screen has made one of his boldest statements yet.

Robert Halderman, the man federal prosecutors have fingered as the David Letterman extortionist, has laid (ahem) a claim on his case that uses Tiger Woods' recent trysts as evidence to back up his innocence.

His attorneys claim since Woods paid one of his gaggle of secret girlfriends to keep things quiet, that should earn their client a get-out-of-jail-free card for making the same gracious offer to Letterman. That only makes the tiniest bit of sense if the person Letterman was having sex with was Halderman. Actually, forget I just said that. Whoops, too late.

Just when thought you had already heard the whole world's take on the Tiger Woods saga, out comes the last person you want to see on a date.

Professional soul patch wearer and Cheaters host Joey Greco talked to the Los Angeles Times about Woods' philandering ways.

He describes his take on the reaction, the coverage and even Tiger's handling of the event. He even likens it to David Letterman's recent scandal and says that Letterman handled his public reaction to the event much better and Tiger should have done the same. So does he mean that Tiger Woods also should have released his own Top Ten list?

[via TVTattle]

I agree with Joel: Letterman should stop talking about his scandal (I also have a problem with the way he keeps referring to it as "I had sex with women who work here" and not just "I had affairs" or "I had relations with"). Last night, Craig Ferguson knew he had to address the issue somehow, and here's how he did it.