David Letterman Extorted by a Fellow CBS Employee

NEW YORK (AP/TMZ) — CBS says an employee has been charged with attempted grand larceny in an investigation involving "Late Show" host David Letterman, who has acknowledged that he had sexual relationships with female employees and that someone tried to extort $2 million from him over the affairs.

CBS says the employee (identfied by TMZ as Robert Halderman) worked on "48 Hours" and has been suspended pending the results of the investigation. The network says the employee was arrested Thursday, hours before Letterman went public with his account during a taping of his show in New York.

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