The claim was far fetched: that the Philly mob delivered thousands of votes for Joe Biden. A Buffalo blog notorious for peddling election misinformation has captured the attention of top Trump supporters with a bizarre tale of the Philly mob swinging the election for Biden. Matthew Ricchiazzi runs the Buffalo Chronicle, a fake news site that’s been masquerading as a real newspaper since 2014. He hit what counts as the big time for crank sites with a handful of dubious and debunked stories about Canadian elections. During an appearance on Fox Business, Rudy Giuliani alluded to the Merlino conspiracy theory but seemed more skeptical of it than not.