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Prosecutors: Threats against Letterman were taped

Secretly taped recordings of a CBS producer's plot extorting $2 million from "Late Night" host David Letterman contained "explicit and actual threats," prosecutors said Friday.

The recordings were described in the arraignment of Robert J. Halderman, 51, of Norwalk, Conn., in Manhattan Criminal Court.

Halderman pleaded not guilty to first-degree attempted grand larceny. On Thursday,...

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