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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Victoria Bekiempis

Pirate booted out: popcorn mogul’s coup in New York village falls flat

a man walks out of a building
Robert Ehrlich, the founder of Pirate's Booty Snacks, leaves a polling place in Sea Cliff, New York, on Tuesday. Photograph: Johnny Milano/The New York Times/Redux/eyevine

The popcorn mogul who founded Pirate’s Booty Snacks tried to commandeer a New York village’s local government, storming this minuscule municipality’s office armed with a false statement claiming that he was mayor.

Robert Ehrlich strode into the town hall of Sea Cliff, a village of fewer than 5,000 residents within the larger town of Oyster Bay on Long Island, with all the finesse of a literal pirate on 10 March.

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