On Feb 20, 1:57 pm, wrote:
This is my first time back to rcgp since 2003. I reluctantly came here
to do some research for my book.

Among other things, I found this:

Mr. Frank Niro (Chess Safari)
Address for legal service available from:http://www.blogger.com/profile/11858781138703849298
Last online: Saturday, January 19, 2008
Online activity indicator (last 90 days): 23/90
Email address: withheld

Would anyone be surprised that Mr. Niro has been very easily
contactable
at all times since he was discharged from hospital? Even Yahoo
correctly
lists his current address in Oregon City. Not locatable? Think again.
Want a copy of Mr. Niro's December mail to PR? Reply here to ask.
Think Bill G. did not have this address during the last 2 months?
Think
again. Think I cannot prove this? Think again.
Mr. Niro should never have been named in this suit. It is shameful he
was
dragged in. I know why the mistatements were made. To protect
innocents.
Similarly all should understand why the FSS statements were made.
To protect innocents.

I'm not hiding from anything or anyone. I can be reached at:

Frank Niro
1114 Washington Street
Oregon City, Oregon 97045

Chess

Recently I published my resignation letter (that supposedly doesn't
exist) in my Archives Blog.
Go here to see it---http://csarchives.blogspot.com/2008/...on-letter.html

Also, please visit my regular blog at:
http:www.twchesssafari.blogspot.com

As for my laptop, it was reasonable compensation (worth about $500 at
the time) for the time I wrked without pay (December 2001 to August
2002). It was taken by Susan and Paul, with permission, at my request.
In any case, it had a hard drive crash in June 2005 and was replaced.
I kept nothing related to USCF business...except the Starategic Vision
outline presented at Cherry Hill in 2002 and my resignation letter.

As for the Sloan suit, I'm available to anyone who needs me. Since I
am a life USCF member, the office has continuously had my address. My
copy of Chess Life comes every month in the mail.

Best wishes,
Frank Niro

Great.

Now just return the laptop computer (which you state is worthless
anyway) and our Internet experts will try to recover it.

We would also like for you to explain in detail why you feel that
taking the USCF's laptop computer was "reasonable compensation". Also,
kindly explain why you wrote a check for $3,000 to yourself your last
day on the job and why you did not tell the USCF Board that you were
not coming to the 2003 US Open in Los Angeles. Also, explain under
what theory you get to decide what your "reasonable compensation" was
for the volunteer work you supposedly did.

You should be sure to contact your assigned counsel, Jeremy Brown at
Proskauer Rose, right away, as he has been searching for you.

Sam Sloan

On Feb 20, 11:20*am, samsloan wrote:
On Feb 20, 1:57 pm, wrote:





This is my first time back to rcgp since 2003. I reluctantly came here
to do some research for my book.

Among other things, I found this:

Mr. Frank Niro (Chess Safari)
Address for legal service available from:http://www.blogger.com/profile/11858781138703849298
Last online: Saturday, January 19, 2008
Online activity indicator (last 90 days): 23/90
Email address: withheld

Would anyone be surprised that Mr. Niro has been very easily
contactable
at all times since he was discharged from hospital? Even Yahoo
correctly
lists his current address in Oregon City. Not locatable? Think again.
Want a copy of Mr. Niro's December mail to PR? Reply here to ask.
Think Bill G. did not have this address during the last 2 months?
Think
again. Think I cannot prove this? Think again.
Mr. Niro should never have been named in this suit. It is shameful he
was
dragged in. I know why the mistatements were made. To protect
innocents.
Similarly all should understand why the FSS statements were made.
To protect innocents.

I'm not hiding from anything or anyone. I can be reached at:

Frank Niro
1114 Washington Street
Oregon City, Oregon 97045

Chess

Recently I published my resignation letter (that supposedly doesn't
exist) in my Archives Blog.
Go here to see it---http://csarchives.blogspot.com/2008/...on-letter.html

Also, please visit my regular blog at:
http:www.twchesssafari.blogspot.com

As for my laptop, it was reasonable compensation (worth about $500 at
the time) for the time I wrked without pay (December 2001 to August
2002). It was taken by Susan and Paul, with permission, at my request.
In any case, it had a hard drive crash in June 2005 and was replaced.
I kept nothing related to USCF business...except the Starategic Vision
outline presented at Cherry Hill in 2002 and my resignation letter.

As for the Sloan suit, I'm available to anyone who needs me. Since I
am a life USCF member, the office has continuously had my address. My
copy of Chess Life comes every month in the mail.

Best wishes,
Frank Niro

Great.

Now just return the laptop computer (which you state is worthless
anyway) and our Internet experts will try to recover it.

We would also like for you to explain in detail why you feel that
taking the USCF's laptop computer was "reasonable compensation". Also,
kindly explain why you wrote a check for $3,000 to yourself your last
day on the job and why you did not tell the USCF Board that you were
not coming to the 2003 US Open in Los Angeles. Also, explain under
what theory you get to decide what your "reasonable compensation" was
for the volunteer work you supposedly did.

You should be sure to contact your assigned counsel, Jeremy Brown at
Proskauer Rose, right away, as he has been searching for you.

Sam Sloan- Hide quoted text -

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Right, Sam. Give me a call some time and we'll chat. Same for Jeremy.
Send me a private e-mail and I'll send my cell phone number.

Reasonable compensation...hmm. $500 for 2,000 hours is about 40 cents
an hour. In any case, that decision was made in 2002 by Board
leadership when they purchased the laptop for me.

I never wrote a check to myself. Maybe Linda did to reimburse me for
actual expenses. I never received anything without proper
documentation. And when I left I had about $8,000 in unreimbursed
travel expenses which I never submitted for reimbursement.

I made the decision not to go to L.A. at the last moment based on
Doctor's orders (and the advice of Board member Dr. Wagner, who I
confided in about my health...he even suggested a specific procedure
that I should have before I could consider flying). Out of respect for
physician-patient confidentiality, I presume, he never publicly
revelaed his knowledge of my specific health situation. I have always
appreciated that courtesy. Shawn Pealor came to pick me up and take me
to the airport on the day we were supposed to depart for L.A. Sadly, I
wrote a resignation letter while he waited and he took it, along with
my envelope of USCF papers, with him to L.A. while I stayed in NY with
my unused ticket.

The resignation was entirely related to my health, not USCF finances.
The audit results surprised me, too. The multi-year membership issue
was new and there were a number of accounting errors that were
reversed the following year. I was even more shocked when the new
Board members (Schultz, Marinello and Hanke), all people I respected
very much, decided to push the situation out of control for political
leverage. Such is the legacy of USCF politics.

I will not get in a debate with you over these things, Sam, especially
with potential litigation in the works. I would appreciate it,
however, if you would remove me from your current fishing expedition
(i.e. legal complaint). My days in chess politics are over.

My wife and I will be in Dallas for the US Open...but only as a player
and old friend to some. Thanks for being the first to respond.

Best wishes,
Frank

Bald men comb again.

On Feb 20, 6:53 pm, ChessSafari @ yahoo.com wrote:
Sam,

I am not your enemy. I put my address here so that you or anyone else
that has a need to can properly contact (or serve) me.

The USCF has continually had my address, so how can someone be
searching for me for four months? If you search my name on Google, it
brings you immediately to my blog. Such has been the case for two
years, at least.

Furthermore, my book is not yet finished so anything can still be
revised.

Finally, if anyone at USCF thinks I owe them money for the laptop or
anything else, just send me a bill and I will pay it as soon as I can.

The laptop is long ago dead and had no files on it in any event that
would be of interest to anyone but me. I can't understand why you
would think otherwise.

Note to Phil: I always have respected you, despite our disagreement
over certain matters, long forgotten by me.

Best wishes to all,
Frank

Mr. Niro,

We are not interested in receiving $500 from you. We are demanding the
return of the USCF's laptop computer that you stole.

That computer contains corporate files and records. It may contain
information concerning the two million dollars that is missing, lost
or stolen. If you do not return that computer, you are facing serious
jail time.

The computer is to be delivered to the USCF's Internet Attorney at the
following address:

Karl Kronenberger
150 Post Street, Suite 520
San Francisco, CA 94108-4707
415-955-1155 ext. 114
karl @ kronenbergerlaw.com
http://www.kronenbergerlaw.com/karl_...r_profile.html

Under no circumstances is this laptop computer to be given to Bill
Hall. Bill Hall is dishonest, unreliable, lies all the time, and is
almost as bad and possibly even worse than you were.

The destruction of corporate records is a crime. If you have trashed
that computer you have committed a crime. Since you state that you
needed that computer to write your book, nobody will believe that you
threw it away.

By the way, if you need a publisher for your book, I will be happy to
publish it for you. I have published 30 books in the past year. My
latest book "The Blue Book and Encyclopedia of Chess" will be out in
about ten days. My most recent previous book came out last week:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0923891900

Sam Sloan

samsloan wrote:
On Feb 20, 6:53 pm, ChessSafari @ yahoo.com wrote:
Sam,

I am not your enemy. I put my address here so that you or anyone else
that has a need to can properly contact (or serve) me.

The USCF has continually had my address, so how can someone be
searching for me for four months? If you search my name on Google, it
brings you immediately to my blog. Such has been the case for two
years, at least.

Furthermore, my book is not yet finished so anything can still be
revised.

Finally, if anyone at USCF thinks I owe them money for the laptop or
anything else, just send me a bill and I will pay it as soon as I can.

The laptop is long ago dead and had no files on it in any event that
would be of interest to anyone but me. I can't understand why you
would think otherwise.

Note to Phil: I always have respected you, despite our disagreement
over certain matters, long forgotten by me.

Best wishes to all,
Frank

Mr. Niro,

We are not interested in receiving $500 from you. We are demanding the
return of the USCF's laptop computer that you stole.

That computer contains corporate files and records. It may contain
information concerning the two million dollars that is missing, lost
or stolen. If you do not return that computer, you are facing serious
jail time.

The computer is to be delivered to the USCF's Internet Attorney at the
following address:

Karl Kronenberger
150 Post Street, Suite 520
San Francisco, CA 94108-4707
415-955-1155 ext. 114
karl @ kronenbergerlaw.com
http://www.kronenbergerlaw.com/karl_...r_profile.html

Under no circumstances is this laptop computer to be given to Bill
Hall. Bill Hall is dishonest, unreliable, lies all the time, and is
almost as bad and possibly even worse than you were.

The destruction of corporate records is a crime. If you have trashed
that computer you have committed a crime. Since you state that you
needed that computer to write your book, nobody will believe that you
threw it away.

By the way, if you need a publisher for your book, I will be happy to
publish it for you. I have published 30 books in the past year. My
latest book "The Blue Book and Encyclopedia of Chess" will be out in
about ten days. My most recent previous book came out last week:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0923891900

Sam Sloan



Who is "we," Sam? You have no standing. You are not an officer of the
USCF, having been utterly rejected by the voters last year. Nor are
you a law-enforcement officer (able to prosecute crimes), or an
attorney (with the slightest notion of what the term "corporate
records" actually means). Why don't you crawl back in your hole and
stop embarrassing us all? You're a superannuated buffoon, Sam. Live
with it.

Although I lost re-election to the board, which I am contesting, I am
still a delegate and thus have standing. Even if I were not a delegate
I am still a USCF member and thus have standing.

Frank Niro needs to return that laptop that he had stolen from the
USCF's office in New Windsor, New York on August 20, 2003 or else face
arrest and criminal prosecution for this theft.

Sam Sloan