Legal threats from Polgar and Truong

On Friday, July 21, 2006, it was announced that Sam Sloan had been
elected to the USCF Executive Board. Almost immediately, Paul Truong
started attacking me in postings to the USCF Forums website. Today is
Jaly 27 and in the six days that have since passed, Truong has
attacked me a total of 115 times, including 25 times so far today.

Truong has repeatedly accused me of being a sexual predator. He states
that parents of scholastic players should be warned that there is a
sexual predator on the USCF Executive Board. He has threatened to file
lawsuits.

His allegations are completely and utterly false.

I know of no organization that would tolerate this sort of language on
an official website. I cannot understand why Mike Nolan, the
moderator, does not delete it.

Since Paul Truong has produced no proof for any of his claims, I have
asked the moderator, Mike Nolan, to delete his postings. So far, Mike
Nolan has not acted although he has in the past deleted postings by
both Paul Truong and Susan Polgar when they contained false
statements.

It is noteworthy that Truong has not posted these allegations on the
much more widely read public newsgroup rec.games.chess.politics . The
reason is obvious. Paul Truong has a long and well known history of
attacking chess officials and of making false and fraudulent
allegations on that group, so if he tried to post his claims there he
would be immediately refuted. In addition, he has on numerous
occasions threatened to file lawsuits and he has stated that he
actually did file a lawsuit against the USCF VP of Finance and against
the Chairman of the Finance Committee of the USCF.

On the other hand, the USCF Forums are relatively new. Many USCF
members do not even know about them and most of the regulars there do
not know Truong's history.

Paul Truong first appeared amongst us at the August, 2003 US Open and
Delegates meeting in Los Angeles. The Executive Director, Frank Niro,
had just resigned and disappeared. Paul Truong applied to be his
replacement and presented a very impressive resume. He was immediately
hired. However, within a few days, questions started to be asked about
that resume. Paul Truong promptly resigned. Since then, the claims
made in that resume have proven to be unverifiable. For example,
Truong stated that he has a PhD degree. When somebody asked where he
got that PhD degree and in what field it was, he never answered.
Indeed, Truong now refuses to answer any questions about his
background.

Regarding Truong's claim that I am a Sexual Predator, it is
significant that in 1986 I gave Susan Polgar an expensive computer and
I lived in her apartment in Budapest for several months when Susan was
16 years old and her sisters Sophia and Judit were 10 and 9. In the 20
years that have since passed, Susan Polgar has never made any such
claim. Frankly, as a result of living with them, I know a lot of
family secrets of the Polgar Family, which would be highly
embarrassing to Susan if I revealed them, but I will not go that
route.

Throughout the election campaign, there were dozens of postings by a
Fake Sam Sloan that made scurrilous and usually obscene statements
supposedly signed by me. Indeed, the number of postings by the Fake
Sam Sloans greatly exceeded the number of real postings made by me. As
soon as the votes were counted and the results announced that I had
been elected, the postings by the Fake Sam Sloans stopped. That was
also when the postings by the Real Paul Truong started.

Accordingly, it is highly likely that Paul Truong was the Fake Sam
Sloan. Indeed, if you search the Internet you will see that several
regulars have long been convinced that Paul Truong was the Fake Sam
Sloan. I once thought that I had the proof, but the posting that
proved this quickly disappeared.

Paul Truong has a history of posting under fake names. For several
months in 2003, the newsgroups were filled with postings by Bob
Bennett. We all had a problem with this because there is a real USCF
member named Bob Bennett living in Utah. However, finally, an
observant poster was able to prove that the Bob Bennett who was
posting was the same person as Paul Truong.

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.g...d690b2e80bd686


Truong was caught because Bob Bennett and Paul Truong always posted
from the same IP Address. It seems that after being caught that time,
Paul Truong learned how to post from several different IP addresses in
SouthEastern Pennsylvania near Philadelphia, leading many including
myself to believe that the Fake Sam Sloan was Stan Booz, Neil Brennen
or Ray Gordon, all of whom are disliked by Paul Truong.

Truong now posts as ChessPromotion or ChessMarketing. He never signs
his name any more. As a result, is it difficult to search his past
postings. Many readers do not realize that all these postings
attacking me are by the same person.

Sam Sloan