Former CBS news producer Robert Halderman pled guilty to one count of attempted grand larceny in the second degree and was sentenced to 6 months in jail, 5 years probation and 1,000 hours of community service (half in New York and the other half in Connecticut).

In the courtroom, Halderman said, “I have great remorse and sincerely apologize to David Letterman and Stephanie Birkitt. I attempted to extort $2 million from David Letterman.” Halderman called it “a thinly veiled threat.”

Halderman tried to extort money from the Late Show host, David Letterman, threatening him to expose Stephanie Birkitt’s diary, which had intimate details of Letterman’s sordid affair with the Late Show intern (read more details here).