Another take on the story: According to this New York Post article -- "Dave Pulls Stupid Trick on Wife in Caribbean" -- supposedly Haldeman personally handed the package to Letterman's limo driver, which would explain how it got into the car and why Letterman was so trustful that the package was legit and not a bomb. This explanation wasn't part of Letterman's original statement that he found the package in the back of his car. So maybe he's not lying... maybe.... Also according to that Post article, Haldeman cooked up the extortion scheme in a jealous rage because Birkitt had told him (while living with him) that she was no longer sleeping with Letterman, but he had seen her in a "very passionate embrace" with Letterman in "a parked car in the driveway" of Haldeman's/Birkitt's home. Haldeman then dumped Birkitt. Their relationship had been on the rocks since December 2008, when Haldeman had read Birkitt's diaries and discovered that she had been having an ongoing sexual affair with Letterman, even having sexual trysts with him while he was taking vacations with his wife and son. (That's vacationS, plural!) Letterman himself has shown by his admissions/apologies that he's a scumbag. The question is whether Haldeman was out to get back at Letterman, or whether Letterman is concocting the whole extortion story to get back at Haldeman for kicking out his secret lover as well as to garner ratings. Probably the former, but I do have to wonder... (Sorry, Jeri, to be bringing this up after two days, but I've been away from Mudcat for FOUR days doing real-time folk-music stuff, so I haven't had a chance to post these thoughts till now.)
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