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What? No Hot Dog jokes?

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http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/article_047e7316-c44d-11e0-aa1e-001cc4c002e0.html

MAYS LANDING — Charges were dismissed against a Northfield man accused of stealing nearly $175,000 while general manager of Atlantic Broadcasting in Linwood.

Brett DeNafo, 34, originally was accused of theft for allegedly making more than $76,000 worth of personal purchases while heading the parent group of several local radio stations. He faced an additional charge of theft by deception for nearly $99,000 worth of advertising that never was paid for.

The Prosecutor’s Office dismissed the charges administratively by letter, with no comment.
 
It will be interesting to see if Brett brings counter charges since it has now been determined that the charges that were brought against him had no merit and his name and reputation were dragged through the mud arbitratily and without reason.
 
Nick said:
He can buy a lot of hot dogs with that money
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First things...Nick "Booooo!".....
You could have said "He's gonna counter sue...he's on a ROLL....or He came out a weiner...I mean winner..

Seriously tough Brett is great dude. I, along with others , said this would be the outcome...Its really ashame...I hope Brett comes back with a countersuit..
A lot of people made fun of Brett here and called him a thief..maybe some apologies are in order.

Rymes w Ham Bit...
 
We don't know all the details. It could be a Casey Anthony style outcome in which the defendant was acquitted because of not enough evidence.

But still, Brett didn't have the experience to be GM of a radio cluster, and that lack of experience could have been the reason Atlantic went bankrupt.
 
Or it could be that an honest guy had his name defamed by some well known slime balls from Long Island in an attempt to get some bonding insurance money and steal a company.

Prosecuters looked over the "evidence" for months. Never even took the case to the Grand Jury. All baseless allegations. Nuff said.
 
If this is all BS it's really sad that his reputation was dragged through the mud. If it was just a mater of bad judgment and not being up to the challenge then that's not a criminal offense (if it was, there would be no one left to run most radio companies). If there really was something to these charges, then it sad that it didn’t go to trial so it could be adjudicated. Either way, some folks on both sides are not gonna be happy!
 
Hey folks, not being able to press charges doesn't always mean the cat didn't do the crime. It means the prosecutor doesn't have enough evidence to make a case and prove it. I'm not saying that's the case here. If an innocent man was dragged through the mud, that's always bad. But typically where there's smoke there's fire, i.e. didn't do or get caught for this crime but did other crimes, read: 2 lawsuits alleging fraud, arbitron fraud, etc.

And obviously everyone has people who love/like them and people who dislike them. Brett seems to polarize people. He has his loyalists, and there are people who say he screwed them over.

Loyalists tend to have blind allegiance, however, and that shows up when they disagree with the commonly agreed upon issues. In Brett's case, those who dislike him and those who don't really care all think he didn't know how to run the radio stations and, at best - assuming nothing illegal or illicit was going on beyond the arbitron issue, innocently ran them into the ground.

Loyalists say it was all the fault of others.
 
instigator said:
Nick said:
He can buy a lot of hot dogs with that money
Click to expand...
First things...Nick "Booooo!".....
You could have said "He's gonna counter sue...he's on a ROLL....or He came out a weiner...I mean winner..

Seriously tough Brett is great dude. I, along with others , said this would be the outcome...Its really ashame...I hope Brett comes back with a countersuit..
A lot of people made fun of Brett here and called him a thief..maybe some apologies are in order.

Rymes w Ham Bit...
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Yo. A crook is a crook is a crook is a CROOK. Don't believe me? Lend him some money or lend him the key's to your car and find out the hard way. Or better yet, get in the passenger seat and take a ride with this goniff.

The chronology of what he did with that radio group and the lives of the dozens of employees he destroyed, the sponsors he ripped off with the measurement company fraud, along with the loan default and the subsequent evaporation of millions of dollars of appraised value should be enough to scare anyone from getting near this guy, unless, that is, you have a marked learning disability.
 
Sam Lit said:
Yo. A crook is a crook is a crook is a CROOK. Don't believe me? Lend him some money or lend him the key's to your car and find out the hard way. Or better yet, get in the passenger seat and take a ride with this goniff.

The chronology of what he did with that radio group and the lives of the dozens of employees he destroyed, the sponsors he ripped off with the measurement company fraud, along with the loan default and the subsequent evaporation of millions of dollars of appraised value should be enough to scare anyone from getting near this guy, unless, that is, you have a marked learning disability.
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Please document all you've posted above, unless, that is, you have a fact deficiency.
 
Are we back here again? Here are 2 documentations

1. Arbitron Fraud - http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/a...to-reissue-atlantic-city-fall-book?ref=search
Also, documented by an email from Arbitron to it's reporting stations in the market. If Denafo did not specifically have a personal hand in the perpetration of the fraud, it occurred under his watch (and was allegedly done by another officer, if not including Denafo himself). So, he either did it, knowingly allowed someone to do it, or has the "plausible deniability" of being the head moohaf while something like that was going on under his nose...and that didn't fly with MCI/Worldcom, Enron, Haliburton, Goldman Sachs, Ruppert Murdoch, etc. etc.
2. One lawsuit - http://dockets.justia.com/docket/new-jersey/njdce/1:2010cv05449/247993/ - Stewart's Root Beer business partner
 
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