No doubt about it: shakedowns can, and do, backfire big time. Karsan’s attempt to shakedown John Lennon’s widow backfired big time when he was arrested on December 13, 2006, for first-degree attempted grand larceny. proof,” Letterman told his listeners, that the talk show host had, indeed, done “terrible, terrible things.” ABC News reporters Michael S. James and Lindsay Goldwert suggest that, if Letterman’s audience thought he was joking, they would soon learn that there would be no punchline to his monologue. At his trial in March 2010, he insisted that he had never tried to extort any money from Crawford. During the conduct of the investigation, FBI agents discovered that Coss and Sippola had previously tried to extort money from Stamos.

Source: The Nation September 09, 2021 06:56 UTC