And the Emmy for Best Blackmailer goes to...

Robert "Joe" Halderman - the former CBS News producer who pleaded guilty last March to trying to extort two million dollars from David Letterman - has been nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Continuing Coverage of a Story by a Newsmagazine for a 48 Hours story last spring called 'American Girl, Italian Nightmare'.

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