Robert Bernardi

Democratic State Senate candidate Richard Dennison says that the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office overreacted when they sent detectives to question an 18-year-old campaign volunteer, Andrew Keegan, as part of an investigation of GOP State Sen. Diane Allen's stolen lawn signs. Dennison, an attorney and undertaker, also criticized the prosecutor, Robert Bernardi, for a press release he issued on the investigation yesterday.

"Is it typical practice for your office, which surely must be terribly busy with very serious crimes such as rape and murder, to send two detectives to the school of a high school student and have them barge into the main office of that school and ask administrators to speak with that student—in the middle of the school day—when that student is accused of approximately five dollars of property damage?" Dennison wrote. "If that is normal practice for your office, I would consider that to be doing a greater disservice to the Office of the Prosecutor and to the public than any hastily written email from a candidate for public office ever could."

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Burlington County Prosecutor Robert D. Bernardi said today that Richard Dennison was misleading the public about his office’s actions. 

“While my office does not generally comment on ongoing investigations, in this case I feel compelled to publicly respond to certain statements that Mr. Dennison falsely attributes to my office,” Bernardi

wrote in a statement. .

In an email posted on PoliticsNJ.com, Dennison complained that, as retribution for his own complaint about State Sen. Diane Allen’s staff allegedly stealing his campaign signs, her campaign filed a complaint against one of his teenaged volunteers.  Dennison said that, after questioning the volunteer, who he said was 17, the prosecutor’s office “

admitted that the charge was absolutely baseless and surmised, as I have, that it more than likely came as retribution for my threat to file suit against those responsible for stealing my signs.” Read More >

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