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Originally Posted by samsloan
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Originally Posted by chessoffice
I believe
that it is internal corporate information and that USCF officials may
quote from it, but are expected to exercise good judgment. For
example, a misuse of this information is to post a list of checks and
publicly suggest without evidence that these checks were improperly
paid.
Bill Goichberg
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It is to be recalled that back in August, Bill Goichberg had me
publicly censured and reprimanded for stating that Polgar had received
$39,000 from the USCF.
However, I have just demonstrated that Polgar has received considerably
more than $39,000 from the USCF.
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There was no censure or reprimand in August.
What I complained about in August was your claim that $39,000 was paid
to Paul Truong because he "had contracts," including $20,000 because of
Diane Reese's erroneous invitation and $19,000 towards the Olympiad
Training Program.
The $20,000 ($5000 per player bonus) was actually $15,000 and was paid
to Krush, Zatonskih, and Shahade. Polgar waived her claim to $5000.
Contrary to what you wrote, each player had a contract with USCF,
Truong was not part of these contracts.
Bill Goichberg |
You are splitting hairs here. Certainly anybody
reading these postings by Bill Goichberg would reasonably conclude that
neither Polgar nor Truong were paid anything at all.
Now, we finally figure out that when Bill Goichberg stated that Truong
was paid very little, he is referring to Truong individually, not
Truong as the "business manager" (as he calls himself) of Susan Polgar.
I think that everybody else understood my meaning, which was that
Polgar was paid $39,000. Also, as to the claim that Polgar waived for
payment of $5,000, Bill Goichberg omits the fact that Polgar agreed to
take the $5,000 as payment for something else.
Bill Goichberg implies that some of this money went to Boris Gulko or
Garry Kasparov for training the woman's team. However, Kasparov was not
paid anything. To the contrary, the Kasparov Chess Foundation or KFC
paid money to the women players, not the other way around. I doubt that
Boris Gulko was paid anything either.
I have however apologized and expressed regret for my statement that
Polgar was paid $39,000. Polgar was paid more like $40,000 to $50,000.
I regret the error.
In addition, look through Chess Life and you will see free ads for
Polgar. For example, page 71 of the January Chess Life has a half page
ad for Susan Polgar's Group Tour of Hungary, where you can get to meet
Susan Polgar herself! The cost of this tour is $2499.95, inclusive of
airfare. This is clearly a commercial ad and yet Polgar pays nothing
for it. She gets it for free in settlement of a lawsuit she threatened
to bring. There are also free ads for Polgar on pages 38 and 60 of the
January Chess Life and a gratuitous picture of Polgar on page 5 of the
January Chess Life. All this at a time when Polgar is a declared
candidate for election. Why do not any of the other nine candidates get
free ads and free pictures of themselves in Chess Life?
Meanwhile, since August I have been demanding as a board member that
Bill Goichberg provide me with a copy of the contract Susan Polgar
signed with Frank Niro to write a column for Chess Life and also a copy
of the contract she says that she and the other woman players were
"forced to sign" to play on the woman's team. I have also demanded a
copy of the allegedly erroneous letter by Diane Reese. Bill claims that
USCF records have not been lost or destroyed but he still cannot find
the contracts. (By the way, the other contracts that were eventually
produced were found in the lawyer's office, not in the USCF office. The
original contract in the USCF office still has not been found).
Also, by the way, in case you are wondering why you have not heard much
from Donna Aliere lately, that is because she went off to investigate
my allegations for the purpose of proving them wrong and embarrassing
me, only to be discovering one by one that my allegations are true and
correct.
Now you can see why Bill Goichberg had me suspended from posting to the
USCF Forums.
Sam Sloan