From chessdiscussion today:
by PaulTruong on Mon Mar 10, 2008 3:40 pm
I have the highest respect for Mark Nibbelin, Sevan Muradian and Bill
Brock. They are good and honest people and they have done quite a bit
for chess. I am sorry to hear that their reputations are being challenged.

Best regards,
PT
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Regarding Mr. Muradian, the victim of a false post under her name in the
erotic section of Craig's List on 12/29/2006 inviting men to join her
for a party of a sexual nature ringing in the New Year detailed this
occurrence to me a few days ago. After receiving several calls from
men seeking to attend the "party," one of them alerted her to the
Craig's List post. That post was pulled from Craig's List by the
poster, but the text and other information for it was subsequently
obtained. Relative to that post, the victim has shown me a copy of a
Grand Jury Subpoena issued for the Circuit Court of Cook County,
Illinois, filed on January 17, 2007 directing Comcast to provide all
data regarding the Craig's List post made via Comcast as the poster's
internet service provider. The victim has shown me a written response
from Comcast to that Grand Jury Subpoena dated January 24, 2007
identifying the subscriber so posting to Craig's list as Sevan Muradian,
with a specific street address in Chicago, Illinois. The victim and her
husband, a uniformed police officer, advise that the State's Attorney
did not prosecute because he believed that the laws as then written did
not give him grounds for acting under Illinois law.

Mr. Brock quite rightly noted his disgust with this occurance in a post
to the ICA discussion forum on March 2, 2007 stating, "And today I heard
about someone else in the Illinois chess community who was the victim of
an unspeakably vile posting on craigslist.... Very depressing: who could
be so petty as to inflict such pointless pain on another person?"

Interestingly, a similar defense to the hijacking of Truong's computer
surfaces today in this matter. Apparently, some would have us believe
that the victim framed Mr. Muradian by driving past his house where Mr.
Muradian (an expert in computer security) used a non-encrypted wifi
connection that allow the victim to hijack his computer and make the
post in question to Craig's List thereby framing him.

I have only seen copies of the documents noted above. I suppose they
could be spurious, but I tend to think they are genuine and will
provisionally assume so until shown otherwise. If I were Mr. Brock or
Mr. Nibbelin I think I would consider denying knowing Mr. Truong.

A reprint for Google Groups users:

Regarding Mr. Muradian, the victim of a false post under her name in the
erotic section of Craig's List on 12/29/2006 inviting men to join her
for a party of a sexual nature ringing in the New Year detailed this
occurrence to me a few days ago. After receiving several calls from
men seeking to attend the "party," one of them alerted her to the
Craig's List post. That post was pulled from Craig's List by the
poster, but the text and other information for it was subsequently
obtained. Relative to that post, the victim has shown me a copy of a
Grand Jury Subpoena issued for the Circuit Court of Cook County,
Illinois, filed on January 17, 2007 directing Comcast to provide all
data regarding the Craig's List post made via Comcast as the poster's
internet service provider. The victim has shown me a written response
from Comcast to that Grand Jury Subpoena dated January 24, 2007
identifying the subscriber so posting to Craig's list as Sevan Muradian,
with a specific street address in Chicago, Illinois. The victim and her
husband, a uniformed police officer, advise that the State's Attorney
did not prosecute because he believed that the laws as then written did
not give him grounds for acting under Illinois law.

Mr. Brock quite rightly noted his disgust with this occurance in a post
to the ICA discussion forum on March 2, 2007 stating, "And today I heard
about someone else in the Illinois chess community who was the victim of
an unspeakably vile posting on craigslist.... Very depressing: who could
be so petty as to inflict such pointless pain on another person?"

Interestingly, a similar defense to the hijacking of Truong's computer
surfaces today in this matter. Apparently, some would have us believe
that the victim framed Mr. Muradian by driving past his house where Mr.
Muradian (an expert in computer security) used a non-encrypted wifi
connection that allow the victim to hijack his computer and make the
post in question to Craig's List thereby framing him.
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Mr. Truong wrote on chessdiscussion:
From chessdiscussion today:
by PaulTruong on Mon Mar 10, 2008 3:40 pm
I have the highest respect for Mark Nibbelin, Sevan Muradian and Bill
Brock. They are good and honest people and they have done quite a bit
for chess. I am sorry to hear that their reputations are being challenged.

Best regards,
PT
--------------------------------------------------------------

I have only seen copies of the documents noted above. I suppose they
could be spurious, but I tend to think they are genuine and will
provisionally assume so until shown otherwise. If I were Mr. Brock or
Mr. Nibbelin I think I would consider denying knowing Mr. Truong.