When Ricchiazzi ran for mayor in 2009, he was 23-years-old and ran as an independent. He originally attempted to file over 2,000 signatures with the Erie County Board of Elections, but dropped out of the race after the signatures were called into question and rejected.
Take a closer look at the 'buffalo chronicle'.
Does it really look like an actual news site?
Is there an 'about us' section? A Contact section?
Are about Buffalo NY, or are they about Albany, NYC and Canada? WTF?
DISINFO
Disregard.
They had something like this set up in Baltimore as well
https://buffalochronicle.com/contact/ - 404'd
https://buffalochronicle.com/writers/ - 404'd
https://buffalochronicle.com/advertise/ - 200 (not surprising..)
Phone number listed - (716) 548-3371 - Comes back to Matthew Ricchiazzi (possibly the event coordinator) of "The Cornell Club of Greater Buffalo"
Contact email address is - [email protected] - you know, since people who have their own domain use gmail as a legit contact point. Anyways - Mr. Ricchiazzi is a politician who went to Cornell and caught a DWI back in 2015 - https://www.wivb.com/news/buffalo-politician-arrested-on-dwi-charges/ (actual news site)
Fun little fact from the article
Definitely a bullshit site.