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Date: 01 Mar 2008 00:24:16
From: samsloan
Subject: The Laptop-gate Affair
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The Laptopgate Affair started on December 31, 2006 (New Year's Eve)
when the following statement was noticed on Frank Niro's website
chesssafari.com which was soon thereafter taken down:
http://www.chesssafari.com/SusanPolgar.htm
He wrote:
"Susan Polgar
"I don't know what to say about Susan Polgar beyond the fact
that I'm proud to call her my friend. Susan and her manager/best
friend Paul Truong intervened on my behalf when I left the Chess
Federation after my heart attack in 2003. I wanted my laptop because
it had a number of personal files on it that were important to me. It
seemed like a simple enough request. Not only did Susan and Paul
approach the Board of Directors on my behalf, they offered to pay for
it! Then they drove to New Windsor, picked up the computer, and
transported it to me in Connecticut. I have many wonderful friends but
I cannot think of any other who would have done that."
However, it soon came out that Susan and Paul had not approached the
newly elected Board of Directors. The newly elected Board of Directors
was led by Beatriz inello, the new president, and Tim Hanke, the
newly elected VP of Finance. They had not agreed and would never have
agrees to give Susan and Paul that laptop.
More than that, when Frank Niro, who was supposed to have been in Los
Angeles attending the USCf Delegates meeting explaining who the USCF
had lost $300,000 in fiscal year 2002-2003 when he had previously
reported that it had made a profit of $300,000, Frank Niro was instead
in "Connecticut" recovering.
It turns out that this period of "recovering" from a heart attack in
"Connecticut" consisted of playing in extremely high stakes poker
games in the Foxwoods Casino in which he reported that a poker player
had lost $35,000 in a single hand.
http://web.archive.org/web/20060811214101/chesssafari.com/FoxwoodTripReport.htm
Now, we are beginning to realize what happened to the $2 million (two
million dollars) in USCF Life Membership funds that went missing in
part during the two-year period that Frank Niro had been Executive
Director. It has been rumored that he lost it playing poker at
Foxwoods.
Susan Polgar responded on her blog as follows:
http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2007/01/first-of-2007.html
http://csarchives.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.html
When the new board took over in August 2003, they were not aware of
the situation. I even offered to pay for it if they refused to honor
the agreement of the previous board with Mr. Niro. However, that was
not neeeded as they agreed to give him back his laptop.
I took the laptop to Mr. Niro who was recovering from a heart
attack in Connecticut. It was the right thing to do.
In regards to personal info on the laptop, Mr. Niro had pictures
of his children in it as well as the book that he is writing to his
son.
It does not matter how many times I answer, more lies will
surface.
Best wishes,
Susan Polgar
www.PolgarChess.com
Monday, January 01, 2007 12:40:18 PM
However, what quickly emerged after a heated debate on this subject
was that Paul Truong and Susan Polgar had simply stolen the laptop.
They had walked off with it on August 20, 2003. They neither asked nor
received permission from anybody to take it. Nobody had seen them take
it and nobody had known what had happened to the laptop until the
posting by Frank Niro on December 31, 2006 more than three years
later.
We now know that when Susan Polgar wrote that they took the laptop to
Frank Niro in Connecticut, they actually took it to him at the Foxwood
Casino which was in Connecticut where Frank Niro was playing in a high-
stakes poker game.
Please note that the "Fake Sam Sloan", who is now known to be Paul
Truong, posted several times to the thread entitled "The Mystery of
the Computer that was taken by Miss P". The Fake Sam Sloan posted
under the address of ismailsloan @ gmail.com whereas the Real Sam
Sloan posts under sloan @ ishipress.com or samhsloan @ gmail.com
"Miss P" was of course Susan Polgar. "Miss P" and several other
euphemisms were used because under the Goichberg Rules that governed
the 2007 election campaign the word "Polgar" was not allowed to be
uttered unless it was accompanied with words of high praise for Susan
Polgar.
Sam Sloan
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Date: 01 Mar 2008 12:41:19
From:
Subject: Re: The Laptop-gate Affair
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You write good fiction, Sam. I pray that someday you will use your
talents to benefit chess rather than tear things apart. We'll see you
in court.
Take care,
Frank
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Date: 01 Mar 2008 10:26:04
From: samsloan
Subject: Re: The Laptop-gate Affair
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The Laptop-Gate Affair
The Laptopgate Affair started on December 31, 2006 (New Year's Eve)
when the following statement was noticed on Frank Niro's website
chesssafari.com which was soon thereafter taken down:
http://www.chesssafari.com/SusanPolgar.htm
He wrote:
"Susan Polgar
"I don't know what to say about Susan Polgar beyond the fact that I'm
proud to call her my friend. Susan and her manager/best friend Paul
Truong intervened on my behalf when I left the Chess Federation after
my heart attack in 2003. I wanted my laptop because it had a number of
personal files on it that were important to me. It seemed like a
simple enough request. Not only did Susan and Paul approach the Board
of Directors on my behalf, they offered to pay for it! Then they drove
to New Windsor, picked up the computer, and transported it to me in
Connecticut. I have many wonderful friends but I cannot think of any
other who would have done that."
However, it soon came out that Susan and Paul had not approached the
newly elected Board of Directors. The newly elected Board of Directors
was led by Beatriz inello, the new president, and Tim Hanke, the
newly elected VP of Finance. They had not agreed and would never have
agreed to give Susan and Paul that laptop.
More than that, when Frank Niro, who was supposed to have been in Los
Angeles attending the USCF Delegates meeting explaining why the USCF
had lost $300,000 in fiscal year 2002-2003 when he had previously
reported that it had made a profit of $300,000, Frank Niro was instead
in "Connecticut" recovering.
It turns out that this period of "recovering" from a heart attack in
"Connecticut" consisted of playing in extremely high stakes poker
games in the Foxwoods Casino in which he reported that a poker player
had lost $35,000 in a single hand.
http://web.archive.org/web/20060811214101/chesssafari.com/FoxwoodTripReport.htm
Now, we are beginning to realize what happened to the $2 million (two
million dollars) in USCF Life Membership funds that went missing in
part during the two-year period that Frank Niro had been Executive
Director. It has been rumored that he lost it playing poker at
Foxwoods.
Susan Polgar responded on her blog as follows:
http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2007/01/first-of-2007.html
http://csarchives.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.html
When the new board took over in August 2003, they were not aware of
the situation. I even offered to pay for it if they refused to honor
the agreement of the previous board with Mr. Niro. However, that was
not neeeded as they agreed to give him back his laptop.
I took the laptop to Mr. Niro who was recovering from a heart attack
in Connecticut. It was the right thing to do.
In regards to personal info on the laptop, Mr. Niro had pictures of
his children in it as well as the book that he is writing to his son.
It does not matter how many times I answer, more lies will surface.
Best wishes,
Susan Polgar
www.PolgarChess.com
Monday, January 01, 2007 12:40:18 PM
However, what quickly emerged after a heated debate on this subject
was that Paul Truong and Susan Polgar had simply stolen the laptop.
They had walked off with it on August 20, 2003. They neither asked nor
received permission from anybody to take it. Nobody had seen them take
it and nobody had known what had happened to the laptop until the
posting by Frank Niro on December 31, 2006 more than three years
later.
We now know that when Susan Polgar wrote that they took the laptop to
Frank Niro in Connecticut, they actually took it to him at the Foxwood
Casino which was in Connecticut where Frank Niro was playing in a high-
stakes poker game.
Please note that the "Fake Sam Sloan", who is now known to be Paul
Truong, posted several times to the thread entitled "The Mystery of
the Computer that was taken by Miss P". The Fake Sam Sloan posted
under the address of ismailsloan @ gmail.com whereas the Real Sam
Sloan posts under sloan @ ishipress.com or samhsloan @ gmail.com
"Miss P" was of course Susan Polgar. "Miss P" and several other
euphemisms were used because under the Goichberg Rules that governed
the 2007 election campaign the word "Polgar" was not allowed to be
uttered unless it was accompanied by words of high praise for Susan
Polgar.
Sam Sloan
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Date: 01 Mar 2008 08:48:52
From: samsloan
Subject: Re: The Laptop-gate Affair
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> Susan Polgar responded on her blog as follows at:
http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2007/01/first-of-2007.html
http://csarchives.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.html
>
> When the new board took over in August 2003, they were not aware of
> the situation. I even offered to pay for it if they refused to honor
> the agreement of the previous board with Mr. Niro. However, that was
> not neeeded as they agreed to give him back his laptop.
>
> I took the laptop to Mr. Niro who was recovering from a heart
> attack in Connecticut. It was the right thing to do.
>
>
> Best wishes,
> Susan Polgar
> www.PolgarChess.com
It was misleading for Susan Polgar to write that Frank Niro was in
Connecticut recovering from a heart attack, as this implies that he
had had another heart attack. However, Frank Niro only had one heart
attack. That was on February 4, 2003. That was described in the
official press release by the USCF as follows:
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess.politics/msg/7e661208453f91ae
As far as we know, Frank Niro did not have a subsequent heart attack.
We now know that after he disappeared during the first week of August
2003, he went to Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut where according to his
blog he played in extremely high stakes poker games where the pots
sometimes reached $100,000.
http://web.archive.org/web/20060811214101/chesssafari.com/FoxwoodTripReport.htm
Regarding his statement that he is entitled to reimbursement of $8,000
in "travel expenses" while he was USCF Executive Director, this is
another problem. He was supposed to be working in the office in New
Windsor. Instead, while Executive Director, Frank Niro disappeared for
six weeks during mid-2003. Nobody knew where he was although the
office had a cell phone number they could call. It is reported that he
was driving around the Southeastern United States in a truck he had
borrowed from Al Lawrence, a previous Executive Director who still
owned a house in New Windsor where Frank Niro was staying. Frank Niro
claimed that he was driving around the Southeastern United States
evaluating USCF the plan to move to Palm Beach Gardens. However, the
Palm Beach Garden people, which included Joel Channing who was elected
to the USCF Board in 2005, report that Frank Niro only had one
luncheon meeting with them during that entire time.
Frank Niro crashed the truck and when the police came to investigate
he gave his brother's name as he did not have a valid driver's
license.
What we really want to know is what happened to the $2 million (two
million dollars) that went missing while Frank Niro was Executive
Director. Frank Niro closed the Oberweis Account that had contained
the $2 million when the amount had been reduced to $5 (five dollars)
while Frank Niro was executive director. Frank Niro also changed the
USCF Accounting system to hide these huge losses.
Did Frank Niro gamble away the $2 million in high stakes poker games
at Foxwoods? (I am not joking. This is exactly what some USCF insiders
are saying.) There is a chess player who is a shareholder in Foxwoods
(and who arranges the annual big money chess tournament at Foxwoods).
Would he be able to tell us how much money Frank Niro lost in
Foxwoods?
During the last few days, Frank Niro had been writing a lot here about
"God" and "The Lord" and meeting "Friends". (He has not invoked Jesus
yet.) We, the USCF membership, will allow Frank Niro to have his own
dealings with the Lord. We would just like to know what happened to
the money.
Sam Sloan
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Date: 01 Mar 2008 04:08:32
From: help bot
Subject: Re: The Laptop-gate Affair
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On 1, 3:24 am, samsloan <[email protected] > wrote:
> It turns out that this period of "recovering" from a heart attack in
> "Connecticut" consisted of playing in extremely high stakes poker
> games in the Foxwoods Casino in which he reported that a poker player
> had lost $35,000 in a single hand.
Maybe there was a "plan" to deal with missing
life members' funds by betting $300K of USCF
funds on the red or the black at roulette. If they
lost, the worst that could happen is that now, in
addition to having no money to cover the liability
to life members, there would also be funds
unaccounted for in some other account. But if
they won, the USCF would be "up" by $300K.
Do it again and if they won again the USCF
would be up by $600K! Hey-- we're on a roll.
What do you say we take a chance and bet on
one of the *numbers* this time?
In any case, the whole jibber jabber about
needing a laptop because some files happened
to be on it is ludicrous. Files, you see, can be
transfered from one computer to another. "We
engineered them that way" (from the movie
Jurassic Park).
I have to tell you that I have been reading about
financial hocus-pokus inside the USCF for many
years now. If the USCF were a for-profit
company, it would be rated "junk" by Fitch. If it
were a government, it could qualify as a banana
republic-- maybe. I think maybe the checkers
federation should be hired to run things for us
chessplayers; they could hardly do a worse job
of it, and the overblown ego issues might be
removed from the equation, making for a much
simpler organization. Come to think of it, even
the tic-tac-toe people might be better qualified
to run things than we chessplayers... .
-- help not
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