https://nypost.com/2024/11/07/us-news/failed-ny-assembly-candidate-surrenders-to-cops-after-snatching-rivals-flyer-from-mailbox/A failed upstate New York Assembly candidate turned himself in to police after he was caught on camera allegedly stealing his rival’s campaign flyer out of a resident’s mailbox and swapping it with his own.
Republican Joseph Mastroianni was charged with petit larceny for the switch-up after surrendering to Socita Village police on Thursday.
Mastroianni, who is a member of the Rotterdam Town Board, had launched a bid for the 111th Assembly District — covering Schenectady and Montgomery counties — against Democrat and six-term incumbent Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara.
Despite his alleged efforts to replace Santabarbara’s messaging with his own, Mastroianni lost to the incumbent on Tuesday.
The candidate was filmed on Oct. 17 by a Ring doorbell camera removing a political mailer from the mailbox of a potential voter, stuffing it into his pocket and placing one of his campaign flyers into the same mailbox.
