Chaz became a "whistle blower" once used to have a job under the Mayor, but was fired when he snooped too much into a story and discovered a cover-up. He now believes there is a conspiracy in the city and is the first to bring this to the city's attention.
Without his job, where he could easily get his inside info from Cher and Sonny, he is easily discredited and smothered by the media - and his own two friends. He has trouble trusting people and is quick to suspect deeper meaning to everything, but knows what he's talking about. He is shrugged off as a crazy conspiracy theorist by some.