On Feb 20, 5:59 pm, "
wrote:
Sam,

Do you seriously think that a laptop from that time period is worth
more than the time and legal fees required to sue for it? You have to
resist the urge to file lawsuits for the thrill of it, and restrict
yourself to cases where there is a serious and rectifiable grievance.
If you would limit yourself to pursuing Truong, you would get much
more support and sympathy.

Jerry Spinrad

Absolutely, if you had read the court pleadings, you would know how
tremendously important that laptop is.

In August, 1999 the USCF had $2 million (two million dollars) in the
LMA account with the Oberweis Fund. That was when George DeFeis took
over as Executive Director.

By August 2003 that $2 million was completely gone, lost, misplaced or
perhaps stolen. That was when Frank Niro abruptly left and
disappeared.

That laptop should be able to tell us or at least to give us some
information what happened to the $2 million.

Another issue concerns Truong and Polgar. It seems that while he was
Executive Director, Frank Niro was extremely generous with Truong and
Polgar. They wound up getting about $50,000 out of the USCF at a time
when the USCF was broke, insolvent and virtually bankrupt. This money
comes from both cash money Frank Niro gave them while Executive
Director, and contracts they claimed to have made with Frank Niro
while he was Executive Director, plus contracts Truong and Polgar
claimed to have made with Frank Niro representing the USCF while he
was Executive Director. There is also the question of the Susan Polgar
Foundation which Frank Niro secretly founded and established while he
was Executive Director, without the knowledge of the USCF Board. Also,
the so-called Four-Way Contract which according Truong and Polgar
required the USCF to pay them $50,000 for training the US Woman's
Olympiad Team was secretly signed by Frank Niro. The USCF Board did
not find out about it until after Frank Niro had disappeared.

There is also the invoice dated October, 2003 from Truong and Polgar
to the USCF demanding payment of $17,000 for appearance fees for
attending the 2003 US Open in Los Angeles and a few other events. They
claimed that Frank Niro had agreed to pay this amount. That
information too would be found on that laptop. That was the invoice
that Bill Goichberg wound up paying $13,358.56 on in November 2003.
Even the article that appears in the February 2008 Chess Life by Susan
Polgar for which she is paid at least $500 is based on one of these
secret contracts with Frank Niro.

Simply stated, a lot of money has been lost and if Frank Niro cannot
produce that laptop, he should be looking at jail time.

Sam Sloan