Posted by: Chessmaster at Aug. 10, 2009 at 10:17:54 am
It appears Pual Truong forgot to mention that the revocation of Suan's and his memberships were upheld by the USCF Board of Delegates the next day.
Paul and Susan were given approx 75 minutes to talk present their side of the matter and they chose to bring in their attorney Mr. Leigh who is representing them in some of the lawsuits.
An overwhelming majority of the almost 80 delgates in attendance voted to upheld the the Executive Board's revocation of their memberships.
Paul new exactly why the USCF took this action in Inidanapolis. The Board of Delegates meet only once a year at the US Open Chess Tournament and the timing of the action allowed Paul and Susan to appeal the revocation to the Board of Delegates the next day.
Posted by: Vidmar at Aug. 10, 2009 at 1:33:20 pm
Susan Polgar and Paul Truong had their memberships revoked for just cause. She was represented by counsel at the Executive Board hearing on revocation on Friday evening and again during her appeal that was heard the following day by the full USCF House of Delegates. Also on Saturday, the USCF House of Delegates ratified all Executive Board actions taken during the past year. With great specificity, the Delegates ratified the commencement of legal actions against Polgar and Truong in California (in which Ms. Polgar's chessdiscussion.com webmaster, Gregory Alexander, was indicted on 34 counts of email hacking and one count of aggravated identity theft. Mr. Alaexander was arrested last month by the US Secret Service during the second day of court ordered mediation in San Francisco. He was arraigned and released on $100,000 bail.)Texas and Illinois.
Ms. Polgar has charged me and 13 other defendants with defaming her, and yet, at her deposition taken under oath at the end of June, she could not produce even one false statement made about her by any of the defendants despite being given two days to produce same. Her litigation is nothing more than a sham designed to silence her USCF critics. The delegates saw through all of Polgar and Truong's posturing and acted properly in revoking thir memberships for just cause.
Posted by: n-weymouth at Aug. 11, 2009 at 3:46:17 am
Perhaps this fiasco could have been avoided if Mr. Truong had been willing to testify under oath whether he had posted obscene Usenet messages under the name of Sam Sloan, whom Mr. Truong defeated in election to the USCF Executive Board. (Mr. Sloan has stated the he was subsequently expelled from the Marshall Chess Club in New York City.) It is unfortunate that Ms. Polgar raised the stakes by making unsupported allegations in a suit at law.
It has been suggested in a USCF forum that Ms. Polgar's initials, in the SPICE program, might support instead a name change to South Plains Institute for Chess Excellence.