Voters threw him overboard, but he’s still making waves. The founder of popular Pirate’s Booty cheese puff snack who got clobbered in his longshot Long Island village mayoral bid claimed the tally was ...

Will they let him steer the ship or make him walk the plank? The founder of the popular Pirate’s Booty snack proclaimed himself the victor of a quaint Long Island village’s mayoral election on Tuesday ...

Robert Ehrlich, who created Pirate’s Booty in 1987, has invoked an arcane New York state law called the Citizen Empowerment Act to create a “new” village within Sea Cliff, which is located within the ...

Robert Ehrlich attempted to seize control of his coastal Long Island village on March 10, citing an obscure New York law as grounds for his takeover The founder of the snack brand Pirate's Booty ...

A snack food magnate declared himself mayor of the Village of Sea Cliff, on Long Island. The voters said otherwise.

Elena Villafane, the incumbent mayor of Sea Cliff, defeated Pirate’s Booty Snacks founder Robert Ehrlich, 1,064-62, on Tuesday in the village, which is about 26 miles northeast of midtown Manhattan.

Robert Ehrlich, founder of the snack brand Pirate's Booty, launched a bizarre bid to take over the local government in his ...

Robert Ehrlich walked into Sea Cliff Village Hall like he owned the place, falsely declaring himself mayor and trying to fire the entire staff, officials said. Days later, the Pirate's Booty founder ...

Resident and Pirate’s Booty founder Robert Ehrlich is not letting a little thing like an election get in his way of running the Village of Sea Cliff. Ehrlich and three other men arrived at ...

"It was supposed to be a simple, uncontested race," but the mayoral election earlier this week in Sea Cliff, New York, has ...

Robert Ehrlich is a physicist at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Learn and share the most exciting discoveries, ...