Ehrlich — whose Pirate's Booty brand is now owned by The Hershey Company — allegedly grew confrontational when Sea Cliff staffers refused to comply, requiring police to intervene. "Village ...

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 ...

Officials say the founder of the Pirate’s Booty snack line baselessly declared himself mayor of the small Long Island village of Sea Cliff. The village said Robert Ehrlich and a small entourage ...