A snack food magnate declared himself mayor of the Village of Sea Cliff, on Long Island. The voters said otherwise. By John Leland The little village of Sea Cliff, on Long Island’s north shore ...

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 Inc Village of Sea Cliff/Facebook The founder ...

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 ...

Time to walk the plank! The founder of popular Pirate’s Booty cheese puff line got shellacked in Tuesday’s Sea Cliff mayoral election, losing to incumbent Elena Villafane 1,064 votes to just ...

SEA CLIFF, New York (WABC) -- An unexpected and peculiar fight is playing out in this one-square-mile village on Long Island as the fight for the mayor's seat in the village of Sea Cliff comes to ...