Sea Cliff Mayor Elena Villafane wins re-election, defeating write-in candidate Robert Ehrlich after an alleged attempted coup ...

Robert Ehrlich attempted to seize control of his coastal Long Island village on March 10, citing an obscure New York law as ...

Police were eventually called in to de-escalate the situation before order was restored.Massive Election Loss Follows Village ...

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

In a story widely munched on by news and social media, Robert Ehrlich, founder of the company that makes Pirate’s Booty ...

Officials say Robert Ehrlich stormed into Sea Cliff Village Hall in Nassau County, declared himself mayor and attempted to fire all village staff, citing an obscure state law.

A peculiar power struggle is unfolding in the small village of Sea Cliff, where one prominent resident ... this week in a tense standoff at Village Hall. According to a Facebook post from village ...

The legal chicanery came to a dramatic crescendo at a Sea Cliff village town hall meeting earlier this week, where Ehrlich declared his authority to village officials who were outraged and ...

Robert Ehrlich, 66, founder of the popular Pirate’s Booty snack, declared himself the winner of Sea Cliff’s mayoral election ...