On Feb 28, 9:02 pm, wrote:
On Feb 20, 11:15 pm, " wrote:



THINGS TO COME?

Susan Polgar's call for full transparency is more
than an exercise in good USCF citizenship. It is also
an unmistakable threat to the Board majority. And
almost certainly a substantive threat.

Namely: a bunch of podunk chess politicians, who
were feeling their power-oats, committed countless
arrogant acts that make no legal sense whatsoever and
have likely empowered Truong-Polgar in this legal case.

If one understands the true nature and, more
importantly, the manifestations of the political beast
that is a USCF politician, one understands that
irresponsible, self-defeating arrogance has been and
continues to be the modus operandi.

The self-confident and very detailed demands by
Susan Polgar for full disclosure leads me to alter an
earlier conclusion. I wrote that were Sam's legal
action dismissed tomorrow, GM Polgar would still rue
the day she ever became involved in USCF politics.

The glimmer of a different outcome peaks through
the curtain of events yet to come. Sam's legal action,
whatever its objective merits, will likely fail because
because the legal talent arrayed against our caped
crusader will outmatch his legal savvy and resources.
But there is another legal action that suggests itself:
Polgar-Truong v USCF. And that could turn out to be
the final chapter for the USCF as we know it.

What would better serve chess promotion in the
United States? The semi-public USCF that we have now
or a privately held USCF, owned and run by
Polgar-Truong?

But none of the above answers the question that
stays with me: why did Susan and Paul court Nemesis
in the form of Sam Sloan? Whether he is in the right
or the wrong, Sam's essential characteristic is constant:
he is a slavering-at-the-chops bulldog. He gets a grip on a
person's ankle -- before, perhaps, moving upwards into more
vulnerable bodily and legal areas -- and hangs on forever.
Or, at least, the number of years is large enough to make it
seem like forever.

Then there isFrankNiro. He had serious health
problems, and now this fated human moth is heading
south into the U.S. Open flame. The man must have
been driven mad by illness and his stint as USCF
executive director. Or, in a fit of penitential
maundering, he has settled upon painful,
chest-pounding self-destruction as a penance. There
are simply no other explanations for his wishing to
attend the U.S. Open -- of all possible chess tournaments.

So, then, Mr.Nirowill launch his own Charge of
the Light Chess Brigade. "C'est magnifique, mais ce
n'est pas la guerre," said the French military
observer Bosquet while viewing the attack. We imagine
Mr.Niro, like Chesterton's Napoleon of Notting Hill
in the eponymous novel, carrying a pennant -- perhaps
of Oregon City, Oregon -- and expiring even as he
drives its pointed shaft into the left foot of Randy Bauer.

Mr. Bauer will then be hopping about on his
right hoof, holding his left in total agony, screaming
for a doctor. Mr.Niro'sinert form will be lying
face down on the hotel carpet at the Delegates
Meeting. A curious bystander will prod at the corpse
with a foot and eventually turn it over. His eyelids
unclosed, Mr.Nirowill be staring upwards, a subtle
smile on his lips that will eventually, in rigor
mortis, harden into a very wicked grin.

Unnoticed by others, Paul Truong will saunter
past the hopping Mr. Bauer and bring down with
crushing force the elevated heel of his right shoe
onto the toes of Mr. Bauer's uninjured foot. The
latter will then fly through the air onto the floor,
his corpus jerking like a speared fish, with redoubled
cries of agony beyond bearing.

Nearby, Sam Sloan quietly draws a line throughFrankNiro'sname as among the defendants of his lawsuit.

Yours, Larry Parr

I'm going to the U.S. Open for two reasons, and two reasons only:

1) To play the game I love: Chess;
and,
2) To show my new wife the city of Dallas, TX, where I lived from 2000
to 2002.

I'm not afraid of anyone and I have nothing to hide. If the laptop in
question was still alive, I'd bring it with me. Maybe my old back-up
cd-roms will be of interest to someone someday. But certainly not in
the way Mr. Sloan thinks.

All of the financial data for the U.S.C.F. was either on Linda
Legenos' computer, or Barbara Vandermark's computer, or my desktop
computer in the office in New Windsor. I did not remove anything from
any of the office desktop computers, and left them all behind. Not to
mention the audit workpapers that were still in the possession of the
auditors when I resigned. Even my laptop was left in the office (on
purpose), so that my successor(s) could examine the files and take
anything they needed. That's why it was two or three weeks later when
I asked for it.

Everything that was on my website (shut down at the request of my
children for privacy reasons) is in my blog archives (or soon will
be), including the exact text of what I wrote about Susan and Paul on
my web site. The only omission (same reason) are photos of my children
and grandson.

The blog is free while the website costs money. I know how to blog
(thanks to training from pokerpages.com)but I don't know how to
maintain a web site. So switching from a web site to a blog (4 of them
actually) was a simple decision. I did that on July 31, 2007. It had
nothing to do with anything related to Sam Sloan, Susan Polgar or Paul
Truong.

By the way, I hope you are well these days, Larry. Please give my
regards to Dato Tan.

Best wishes,
Frank

If what you write here is true, you still have a chance to recover
your reputation, even though you are just now coming out of hiding
after five years after you disappeared in August, 2003.

Right now, your credibility is zero. Nobody who had any past dealings
with you believes anything you say any more. We have all been burned
by you.

If you want to come clean the first two things you should do is:

1. Make yourself available to your lawyer, Jeremy Brown of Proskauer
Rose and

2. Hand over that laptop to the USCF's Internet lawyer, Karl
Kronenberger

We are not interested in hearing from you that there is nothing on the
laptop. That laptop does not belong to you. It belongs to the USCF.
So, return it.

Do not give that laptop to Bill Hall. He will probably just trash it
and then blame everything on you. We know from experience that Bill
Hall lies constantly. His reputation is the same as yours, zero.

Sam Sloan

samsloan wrote:

Posted to:
rec.games.chess.politics,
rec.games.chess.misc,
alt.chess

Excellent! Suddenly I am motivated to pay attention to the
substance of your posts, now that you aren't harassing
the computer chess newsgroups.


On Feb 28, 9:02 pm, wrote:

I'm not afraid of anyone and I have nothing to hide. If the laptop in
question was still alive, I'd bring it with me. Maybe my old back-up
cd-roms will be of interest to someone someday. But certainly not in
the way Mr. Sloan thinks.

I see no reason not to turn it over to a USCF lawyer, broken or not.

--
Guy Macon
http://www.guymacon.com/

On Feb 28, 10:58 pm, Guy Macon http://www.guymacon.com/ wrote:
samsloan wrote:

Posted to:
rec.games.chess.politics,
rec.games.chess.misc,
alt.chess

Excellent! Suddenly I am motivated to pay attention to the
substance of your posts, now that you aren't harassing
the computer chess newsgroups.

On Feb 28, 9:02 pm, wrote:
I'm not afraid of anyone and I have nothing to hide. If the laptop in
question was still alive, I'd bring it with me. Maybe my old back-up
cd-roms will be of interest to someone someday. But certainly not in
the way Mr. Sloan thinks.

I see no reason not to turn it over to a USCF lawyer, broken or not.

--
Guy Macon
http://www.guymacon.com/

Thank you. Mr. Frank Niro faces jail time for the theft of that
laptop. It will certainly be much easier for him if he simply returns
it. He can of course copy the pictures of his children off of that
laptop. He did not have to take the laptop to do that.

On the morning of August 20, 2003, Mike Nolan learned that lighting
had hit his home in Omaha, Nebraska and he had to resign his position
with the USCF and return there on an emergency basis. As he was
leaving the USCF offices in New Windsor New York, he saw Paul Truong
and Frank Niro entering the offices. He had checked to make sure that
the laptop was sitting on the Executive Director's desk just before he
left.

A few minutes later, the newly elected USCF officials, Beatriz
Marinello, the new president, and Tim Hanke, the new VP of Finance,
arrived. The first thing they did was go to look at that laptop to see
what information it contained, only to discover that the laptop was
missing. By that time, Paul Truong and Susan Polgar had left the
building.

Marinello and Hanke quickly found out that the USCF was hundreds of
thousands of dollars overdrawn at the bank and deeply in debt, whereas
Frank Niro had been telling them that the USCF was in good financial
condition and operating at a big surplus. The USCF was virtually
bankrupt. Marinello and Hanke had no choice but to fire 17 employees,
which they did that same day.

Naturally, there were many people who could have taken the missing
laptop. Certainly the 17 terminated employees were likely suspects.
Nobody really thought about the possibility that Susan Polgar and Paul
Truong might have taken it, especially since they had only been in the
office for a few minutes and only Mike Nolan had seen them there.

Four years later, in 2007, on his website at chesssafari.com, Frank
Niro "thanked" Susan Polgar and Paul Truong for bringing him the
laptop, which he needed to write his memoirs. That was the first hint
or clue that Polgar and Truong had taken the laptop.

There is absolutely no doubt, none whatever, that the laptop belongs
to the USCF and the data and information on that laptop belongs to the
USCF too. There is also the question of the missing $2 million in USCF
funds. Information at to what happened to that money should be on that
laptop. Frank Niro is facing time serious time in jail if he does not
return the laptop.

Sam Sloan

On Feb 29, 5:04 am, samsloan wrote:

Thank you. Mr. Frank Niro faces jail time for the theft of that
laptop. It will certainly be much easier for him if he simply returns
it. He can of course copy the pictures of his children off of that
laptop. He did not have to take the laptop to do that.

On the morning of August 20, 2003, Mike Nolan learned that lighting
had hit his home in Omaha, Nebraska and he had to resign his position
with the USCF and return there on an emergency basis. As he was
leaving the USCF offices in New Windsor New York, he saw Paul Truong
and Frank Niro entering the offices. He had checked to make sure that
the laptop was sitting on the Executive Director's desk just before he
left.

Sorry. This is a serious typo. Nolan saw Paul Truong and Susan Polgar
enter the offices. Frank Niro had left the USCF offices during the
first week of August 2003 supposedly on his way to the USCF Delegates
meeting in Los Angeles. The last thing he did was write himself a
check for $3,000 for his supposed travel expenses. Frank Niro never
made it to Los Angeles. Instead, he disappeared and is just emerging
now.

Sam Sloan

On Feb 29, 5:27 am, samsloan wrote:
On Feb 29, 5:04 am, samsloan wrote:

Thank you. Mr. Frank Niro faces jail time for the theft of that
laptop. It will certainly be much easier for him if he simply returns
it. He can of course copy the pictures of his children off of that
laptop. He did not have to take the laptop to do that.

On the morning of August 20, 2003, Mike Nolan learned that lighting
had hit his home in Omaha, Nebraska and he had to resign his position
with the USCF and return there on an emergency basis. As he was
leaving the USCF offices in New Windsor New York, he saw Paul Truong
and Frank Niro entering the offices. He had checked to make sure that
the laptop was sitting on the Executive Director's desk just before he
left.

Sorry. This is a serious typo. Nolan saw Paul Truong and Susan Polgar
enter the offices. Frank Niro had left the USCF offices during the
first week of August 2003 supposedly on his way to the USCF Delegates
meeting in Los Angeles. The last thing he did was write himself a
check for $3,000 for his supposed travel expenses. Frank Niro never
made it to Los Angeles. Instead, he disappeared and is just emerging
now.

Sam Sloan

The General Ledges shows:

Check number 48907 for $1150.00 paid to Frank Niro on August 7, 2003
Check number 60170 for $2618.85 paid to Frank Niro on August 1, 2003

I would like to know what those checks were for, since Frank Niro's
regular salary was being paid out of another account.

(Let us not forget Check number 60168 paid to John Hillary for
$1500 !!!)

Sam Sloan

"samsloan" wrote in message
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On Feb 28, 9:02 pm, wrote:
On Feb 20, 11:15 pm, " wrote:

If what you write here is true, you still have a chance to recover
your reputation, even though you are just now coming out of hiding
after five years after you disappeared in August, 2003.

Since this is written into what is in effect, a public record, then a few
comments seem necessary to, ah... balance the view.

Right now, your credibility is zero. Nobody who had any past dealings
with you believes anything you say any more. We have all been burned
by you.

I am not nobody, and that does not reflect my opinion. In fact, I have not
surveyed anyone else in order to speak of 'nobody' or 'everybody', so cannot
even state if that paragraph is generally true - but then again, neither has
Sam Sloan conducted any survey.

He is back on his usual MacCarthy-ite hobby-horse of mixing up questions
with accusations, AS IF he were empowered to represent the public interest
by these means, rather than his own more than somewhat occulted opinions - a
factor darkened by his own ambitions which throw a great cast of shadow o'er
all.

In more general terms I rather feel for any Executive Director of USCF as I
feel about Obama and the presidency. While he seems to be overall a most
decent candidate, do I wish the presidency on him and his family - who has
survived it well?

If you want to come clean the first two things you should do is:

1. Make yourself available to your lawyer, Jeremy Brown of Proskauer
Rose and

2. Hand over that laptop to the USCF's Internet lawyer, Karl
Kronenberger

We are not interested in hearing from you that there is nothing on the
laptop. That laptop does not belong to you. It belongs to the USCF.
So, return it.

Who is we?

Do not give that laptop to Bill Hall. He will probably just trash it
and then blame everything on you.

"Everything"? What specific thing? Whose voice does Sam Sloan now speak in -
was "we", now Halls.

Sam Sloan has already admitted that he only suspects there might be
something - but what something? some 2 million somethings no-one else has
seen? When challenged on this before he said something to the effect that it
was cash and other materials. Maybe a $7. 25 tax deductible lunch receit,
and $1,999,992. and 75 cents of 'intangibles' ??

And as usual turns his suspicion into a public question and proceeds to a
public prosecution - which becomes a persecution - is "not interested" in
hearing anything else.

We know from experience that Bill
Hall lies constantly. His reputation is the same as yours, zero.

If Sam Sloan wants to parade his paranoia in newsgroups, let him do so in
his own voice, and not claim this is on behalf of other people. His interest
in the truth seems only paralleled by those who want to investigate Paul
Truong as the FSS, since they too are "not interested" in hearing anything
else, and they, from partial reports, ignore wanting all information and
opinion, and make a public prosecution into a persecution.

Qui stat, caveat ne cadat: Let him that standeth take heed lest he fall;
//Vulgate (1 Corinthians x.12)

though that is rather high commentary for something so low, and better may
be "quid non opus est, asse carum est" which means "what is not necessary is
dear at a penny.

Hunc tu, MacCarthy, caveto [after Horace] )

Phil Innes

Sam Sloan

Sam,

What I have written is true. I have not been in hiding for any part of
the past 5 years. I was sick and recovering for a while through the
end of 2004. I played some chess tournaments in 2005 and 2006. And
wasn't it you who announced here on this forum in August 2006 that I
was living in Seattle on radio personality Delilah's farm writing my
memoirs? A search will refresh your memory.

In the past two years I have been contacted by current USCF delegates
and former employees about the pension and some other minor matters,
but no mention of the laptop was ever made. The USCF has consistently
had my mailing address as a life member and I have received every
issue of Chess life in the mail. Some USCF members even attended my
wedding in Oregon on April 28, 2007. Just because I haven't posted on
rec.games doesn't mean that I have been in hiding.

I have not been served regarding your legal action and I have not been
contacted by Jeremy Brown of Proskauer Rose, but would be happy to
talk to you, him, or anyone else about anything USCF related. In the
past I have offered to attend USCF EB meetings and took a trip to NY
for that purpose in October 2003. That's the problem, Sam. Nobody has
been interested in hearing what I have to say. They certainly will
when my book is published, backed by Delilah who will likely promote
it to her 9 million listeners. So far, you are not mentioned in the
book, Sam. But if you continue to make slanderous statements, I will
be required to defend myself fully,

As for checks written to me, they were obviously reimbursement for my
trips to Tennessee, Florida, NYC and elsewhere to represent the USCF
as its ED. Proper documentation is most certainly attached. Linda
would never have paid anything without it. I still have $8,000 of
expense receipts that I never submitted and, as I explained
previously, I resigned in the way I did so that the USCF would not
have to pay me $35,000 in severance pay.

The laptop is gone since June 2005, but I will gladly turn over my
back-up disquettes and CDs. These are unedited (the back-up dates are
there), but will not show anything that isn't already in possession of
the USCF, except maybe 2,000 of my games and John Curdo's games on
ChessBase, and some pictures of my family.

Sam, I admire your feistiness in trying to get your seat back on the
board. However, your disingenuous nature is appalling. How anyone can
listen to a convicted felon on these things is beyond my ability to
comprehend, especially when, in your case, you never seem to hear what
anyone else has to say.

Nevertheless, I will do my best to share the facts as I know them. I
will be able to do that best from the outside. Once I am legally a
part of the suit, then I will be required to go silent. Be assured,
however, that I won't be in hiding.

May God Bless,
Frank


On Feb 28, 6:48*pm, samsloan wrote:
On Feb 28, 9:02 pm, wrote:





On Feb 20, 11:15 pm, " wrote:

THINGS TO COME?

* * *Susan Polgar's call for full transparency is more
than an exercise in good USCF citizenship. *It is also
an unmistakable threat to the Board majority. And
almost certainly a substantive threat.

* * Namely: a bunch of podunk chess politicians, who
were feeling their power-oats, committed countless
arrogant acts that make no legal sense whatsoever and
have likely empowered Truong-Polgar in this legal case.

* * *If one understands the true nature and, more
importantly, the manifestations of the political beast
that is a USCF politician, one understands that
irresponsible, self-defeating arrogance has been and
continues to be the modus operandi.

* * *The self-confident and very detailed demands by
Susan Polgar for full disclosure leads me to alter an
earlier conclusion. *I wrote that were Sam's legal
action dismissed tomorrow, GM Polgar would still rue
the day she ever became involved in USCF politics.

* * *The glimmer of a different outcome peaks through
the curtain of events yet to come. *Sam's legal action,
whatever its objective merits, will likely fail because
because the legal talent arrayed against our caped
crusader will outmatch his legal savvy and resources.
But there is another legal action that suggests itself:
Polgar-Truong v USCF. *And that could turn out to be
*the final chapter for the USCF as we know it.

* * *What would better serve chess promotion in the
United States? *The semi-public USCF that we have now
or a privately held USCF, owned and run by
Polgar-Truong?

* * * * But none of the above answers the question that
stays with me: *why did Susan and Paul court Nemesis
in the form of Sam Sloan? *Whether he is in the right
or the wrong, Sam's essential characteristic is constant:
he is a slavering-at-the-chops bulldog. *He gets a grip on a
person's ankle -- before, perhaps, moving upwards into more
vulnerable bodily and legal areas -- and hangs on forever.
Or, at least, the number of years is large enough to make it
seem like forever.

* * *Then there isFrankNiro. *He had serious health
problems, and now this fated human moth is heading
south into the U.S. Open flame. *The man must have
been driven mad by illness and his stint as USCF
executive director. *Or, in a fit of penitential
maundering, he has settled upon painful,
chest-pounding self-destruction as a penance. *There
are simply no other explanations for his wishing to
attend the U.S. Open -- of all possible chess tournaments.

* * * So, then, Mr.Nirowill launch his own Charge of
the Light Chess Brigade. *"C'est magnifique, mais ce
n'est pas la guerre," said the French military
observer Bosquet while viewing the attack. *We imagine
Mr.Niro, like Chesterton's Napoleon of Notting Hill
in the eponymous novel, carrying a pennant -- perhaps
of Oregon City, Oregon -- and expiring even as he
drives its pointed shaft into the left foot of Randy Bauer.

* * * Mr. Bauer will then be hopping about on his
right hoof, holding his left in total agony, screaming
for a doctor. *Mr.Niro'sinert form will be lying
face down on the hotel carpet at the Delegates
Meeting. *A curious bystander will prod at the corpse
with a foot and eventually turn it over. *His eyelids
unclosed, Mr.Nirowill be staring upwards, a subtle
smile on his lips that will eventually, in rigor
mortis, harden into a very wicked grin.

* * * Unnoticed by others, Paul Truong will saunter
past the hopping Mr. Bauer and bring down with
crushing force the elevated heel of his right shoe
onto the toes of Mr. Bauer's uninjured foot. *The
latter will then fly through the air onto the floor,
his corpus jerking like a speared fish, with redoubled
cries of agony beyond bearing.

* * * Nearby, Sam Sloan quietly draws a line throughFrankNiro'sname as among the defendants of his lawsuit.

Yours, Larry Parr

I'm going to the U.S. Open for two reasons, and two reasons only:

1) To play the game I love: Chess;
*and,
2) To show my new wife the city of Dallas, TX, where I lived from 2000
to 2002.

I'm not afraid of anyone and I have nothing to hide. If the laptop in
question was still alive, I'd bring it with me. Maybe my old back-up
cd-roms will be of interest to someone someday. But certainly not in
the way Mr. Sloan thinks.

All of the financial data for the U.S.C.F. was either on Linda
Legenos' computer, or Barbara Vandermark's computer, or my desktop
computer in the office in New Windsor. I did not remove anything from
any of the office desktop computers, and left them all behind. Not to
mention the audit workpapers that were still in the possession of the
auditors when I resigned. Even my laptop was left in the office (on
purpose), so that my successor(s) could examine the files and take
anything they needed. That's why it was two or three weeks later when
I asked for it.

Everything that was on my website (shut down at the request of my
children for privacy reasons) is in my blog archives (or soon will
be), including the exact text of what I wrote about Susan and Paul on
my web site. The only omission (same reason) are photos of my children
and grandson.

The blog is free while the website costs money. I know how to blog
(thanks to training from pokerpages.com)but I don't know how to
maintain a web site. So switching from a web site to a blog (4 of them
actually) was a simple decision. I did that on July 31, 2007. It had
nothing to do with anything related to Sam Sloan, Susan Polgar or Paul
Truong.

By the way, I hope you are well these days, Larry. Please give my
regards to Dato Tan.

Best wishes,
Frank

If what you write here is true, you still have a chance to recover
your reputation, even though you are just now coming out of hiding
after five years after you disappeared in August, 2003.

Right now, your credibility is zero. Nobody who had any past dealings
with you believes anything you say any more. We have all been burned
by you.

If you want to come clean the first two things you should do is:

1. Make yourself available to your lawyer, Jeremy Brown of Proskauer
Rose and

2. Hand over that laptop to the USCF's Internet lawyer, Karl
Kronenberger

We are not interested in hearing from you that there is nothing on the
laptop. That laptop does not belong to you. It belongs to the USCF.
So, return it.

Do not give that laptop to Bill Hall. He will probably just trash it
and then blame everything on you. We know from experience that Bill
Hall lies constantly. His reputation is the same as yours, zero.

Sam Sloan- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Mr. Niro,

You fail to understand:

You are part of the suit:

Your lawyer, Jeremy Brown, filed a pleading in federal court before
Judge Chin stating that he is unable to locate you.

That means that you are in.

Also, when the summons was served on the USCF during a board meeting
in Crossville Tennessee, a member of the board stated "Good luck in
finding Frank Niro". That statement can be heard on the video tape
posted online by Terry Vibbert.

Since you were the Executive Director of the USCF and the USCF has
been served, that means that you have been served. Evading service of
process as you have been trying to do accomplishes nothing especially
since the judge has been told by your lawyer that you cannot be
located.

Sam Sloan

Let's try this once again to make sure that you understand.

Frank Niro has an attorney. His name as Jeremy Brown.

Mr. Brown has informed the court that he represents Frank Niro but
that he has been unable to locate Mr. Niro.

Mr. Brown is a highly respected attorney and the courts will believe
him.

You are fooling yourself if you think that you can get out of this
case just by hiding and evading service of process.

Sam Sloan

samsloan wrote:

Guy Macon wrote:

samsloan wrote:

Posted to:
rec.games.chess.politics,
rec.games.chess.misc,
alt.chess

Excellent! Suddenly I am motivated to pay attention to the
substance of your posts, now that you aren't harassing
the computer chess newsgroups.

On Feb 28, 9:02 pm, wrote:
I'm not afraid of anyone and I have nothing to hide. If the laptop in
question was still alive, I'd bring it with me. Maybe my old back-up
cd-roms will be of interest to someone someday. But certainly not in
the way Mr. Sloan thinks.

I see no reason not to turn it over to a USCF lawyer, broken or not.

--
Guy Macon
http://www.guymacon.com/

Thank you.

You could have thanked me by not posting to rec.games.chess.computer.
But you did, and so I onvce again have no interest in whether you
have a case or are blowing smoke. Clearly, you put being an asshole
at a higher priority than having someone unbiased examine and possibly
verifying yur claims.

I deleted the rest of your post and you followup poists unread.