David Letterman's extortionist lands new job with Investigation Discovery’s series 'On the Case with Paula Zahn'

The man who blackmailed David Letterman for $2 million in regards to his affair with an intern, Emmy Award-winning CBS News producer Robert Halderman, has landed a new job on Investigation Discovery’s series On the Case with Paula Zahn.

Halderman’s gig has left him in charge of fine-tuning the stories that the team over at ID produce.

Scott Weinberger, executive producer for On the Case, said in a statement “On behalf of On The Case’s production team, we have been impressed with Joe Halderman’s professional accomplishments as an Emmy award-winning producer for 48 Hours and CBS News,” The New York Daily News reports.

The statement continued, “With the network’s prior approval, the team has brought Halderman on as a producer for On The Case We are confident that Halderman will make significant contributions to the success of our award-winning investigative newsmagazine.”

Halderman served four months in jail out of his 6-month jail sentence, The Wrap reports, as he also got five years probation and 1,000 hours of community service for the extortion scam he placed on Late Show host, Letterman.

At the time that he was working as a producer on 48 Hours, Halderman had placed documents in the form of a screenplay and a book proposal that threatened to go public with a married Letterman’s inter-office affair with Stephanie Birkitt.

After Letterman had taken the documents to law enforcement and his legal team, Halderman was arrested and Letterman told his viewers about the scandal before it could hit the media.

When entering his guilty plea he had expressed he felt “great remorse for what I have done.”