On Feb 20, 11:20=A0am, samsloan <samhsl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Feb 20, 1:57 pm, ChessSaf...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
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> > This is my first time back to rcgp since 2003. I reluctantly came here
> > to do some research for my book.
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> > Among other things, I found this:
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> > 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>
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> > 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.
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> > I'm not hiding from anything or anyone. I can be reached at:
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> > Frank Niro
> > 1114 Wa****ngton Street
> > Oregon City, Oregon 97045
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> > Chess Saf...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Recently I published my resignation letter (that supposedly doesn't
> > exist) in my Archives Blog.
> > Go here to see
it--->http://csarchives.blogspot.com/2008/01/my-resignati=
on-letter.html
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> > Also, please visit my regular blog at:
> > http:www.twchesssafari.blogspot.com
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > Best wishes,
> > Frank Niro
>
> Great.
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> Now just return the laptop computer (which you state is worthless
> anyway) and our Internet experts will try to recover it.
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> 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.
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> You should be sure to contact your assigned counsel, Jeremy Brown at
> Proskauer Rose, right away, as he has been searching for you.
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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
leader****p 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
do***entation. 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 air****t 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 member****p 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 fi****ng 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
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