The claims made by Bill Goichberg and Paul Truong here are directly
contradicted by a BINFO sent by Bill Hall on December 8, 2006.

On December 8, 2006, Bill Hall wrote:

To the USCF Executive Board:

Issues raised by Mr. Sloan

A) Susan Polgar Advertising - Susan had/has a credit for publications
advertising from 1) the settlement surrounding the 2004 Women's
Olympiad, which the EB agreed to settle in August '05 and 2) as part
of a trade agreement that I was involved in for celebrity appearance
at two national events. The appearance trade included free entry for
her children and one free room during the event with no fee to be paid
by the USCF.

B) Candidate's Fees - the three candidate's fees in question were
deposited. They appear in the General Ledger in the operational
Account (111100) as a part of the 97210.28 Access for J transaction.
It is further credited into the 970000 account. This appears as a
monthly batch total transaction, because in NY they were tracking many
of the individual transactions in an Access program and then entering
the transactions as a batch entry into Peachtree and the end of the
month.

C) Disbursements to Susan Polgar - I have already reported that Mr.
Nanna is confident that there was no irregularity in the 13K
disbursement to Polgar that was questioned. ON the issue of further
investigation, Mr. Nanna feels strongly that this would be counter-
productive and costly. I, too, am hesitant to direct him to generally
dig into the matter. This has the following consequences: 1) detracts
from the business of moving the Federation in the direction we need to
go, 2) it is costly with respect to staff time involved, 3) it has the
potential to politicize the office and I feel it is crucial the office
and the staff be protected from the political aspects of this
organization. We will await direction from the EB on this matter.

I hope this helps with these matters.


Bill Hall
Executive Director
United States Chess Federation
P.O. Box 3967
Crossville, TN 38557-3967
Phone: (931) 787-1234
Fax: (931) 787-1200