Susan Polgar responded on her blog as follows at:
http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2007...t-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.g...661208453f91ae

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/200608112...TripReport.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