Did you hear about the extortion plot involving David Letterman?  A 48 Hours producer, Robert “Joe” Halderman,  presented Dave with a movie treatment that outlined a movie based on his alleged romantic involvement with female staff members. The story is pretty wild. Halderman threatened to make Letterman’s world “…collapse around him…”  David alerted his lawyer and things go even crazier from there.
Letterman immediately contacted his lawyer, who arranged a meeting with Halderman. At the meeting, Halderman demanded $2 million for not releasing the material, the district attorney’s office said. After the meeting, Letterman and his lawyer contacted the DA’s office …read more

In Follow-up to When Adoptions Go Wrong: Dateline Exclusive
Like Lisa at Adopting from Guatemala, I was also pleasantly surprised by the piece Dateline NBC aired last week on Guatemalan adoptions. They did not focus on the rumors of baby snatchers or birth mothers selling their babies, baby farms, or extortion. Rather, they focused in on one story and one attorney; Thanasis, who is supposed to be banned from performing adoptions in Guatemala. Good idea, Dateline. In my opinion, if they had gone that route, they would have tainted Guatemalan adoptions for a long, long, time.