Doctoring Court Evidence?

The doctored version of the evidence which was submitted to the court by the USCF with the initial of the person who placed that black box.



The actual doctored version which was submitted to the court by the USCF.



What's underneath the true evidence which was purposely hidden from the court.



Notarized affidavit from the third party.

Back in August 2008, the USCF received crucial evidence which showed that I had NOTHING to do with the hacking they claimed. Unbeknown to me, the USCF requested and obtained this information. Even after receiving the notarized affidavit from a third party which completely cleared me, the USCF decided to file a lawsuit anyway claiming that I hacked another board member's email account 111 times. They also did not disclose this evidence to me or my team of attorneys.

No credible evidence was ever shown that I had anything to do with it. The IP did not match and I did not even have an account with this company. In fact, the USCF could not provide any IP matching mine. This doctored USCF evidence was submitted to the court instead. A computer expert was able to discover what was really underneath it. This is a very serious legal matter.

You can now see for yourself step by step. If you click on the images, they will enlarge to make it easier to see.

The USCF spent $180,000 so far this fiscal year (about 6-7 months) on legal fees. They also spent an incredible amount of money last year. There is a strong likelihood that the insurance company will not renew the USCF D&O insurance policy.

Once some of these legal cases in 4 different states get to court, the legal fees may escalate to well over $500,000. I offered the USCF and the board majority a way out to save this federation. They refused and instead went to court with doctored evidence while continuing to defame and libel me.

The USCF lost $419,968 so far this fiscal year

According to the Chief Financial Officer of the USCF Mr. Joe Nanna, the US Chess Federation under the leadership of President Bill Goichberg, Vice President Jim Berry, Vice President of Finance Randy Bauer, and Executive Director Bill Hall, lost $419,968 in the first 6 months of this fiscal year. With the $374,626 bequests, the federation still lost $45,342 year to date! There are still 6 months left in this fiscal year!

11 candidates in the next EB election

11 sets of nominating petitions have been received for candidates in the 2009 EB election.

The filing fees for all of these candidates have been received and all of these individuals have either signed their own petition or otherwise indicated their willingness to be a candidate in the election. The office is still in the process of verifying that all of these petitions have the necessary number of valid signatures, that process should be completed tomorrow.

The candidates in alphabetical order are:

Mike Atkins
Jim Berry
Bill Goichberg
Ruth Haring
Eric Hecht
Mikhail Korenman
Blas Lugo
Mike Nietman, etc.

A few signed petitions were received for Beatriz Marinello and David Quinn. However, no filing fee or statement of intent to run from either of these individuals was received, so these individuals have not met the requirements for being certified as a candidate in the election.

Once the office has completed the process of verifying the signatures, a double-blind random drawing will be held at the office to determine the order the names will be placed on the ballot, which will also be the order that the candidate statements will appear in Chess Life.

Mike Nolan,
Chair, USCF Election Committee

The same old political destruction game

[The following item appeared in the USCF Delegates Newsletter, an independent publication of the Friends of the USCF (Volume 2, number 1, May-June 1993.]

GOICHBERG DEFENDS PERSONAL JUDGMENT -
- PROMISES MORE OF SAME NEW WINDSOR, N.Y., APRIL. 12--In a telephone interview of April 11, 1993

USCF presidential candidate William Goichberg denied using poor judgment when pressuring the USCF Policy Board to allocate up to $1,000 to investigate five-time U.S. chess champion Larry Evans. If elected, Mr. Goichberg pledged to employ the same standards of judgment on other questions.

"The only thing that I would do differently," said Goichberg, "is to investigate suspects at private expense, since we felt obliged to reimburse the USCF for the Pinkerton bills after the findings disproved my theory about Evans."

Questions about Goichberg's judgment have arisen after a USCF-funded Pinkerton investigation concluded that mailing labels on an anti-Semitic hit letter from the Eddis-Schultz campaign were NOT photocopies of labels used by Grandmaster Evans in a mailing of his own.

"What set the whole thing off," said Vice President Frank Camaratta, chairman of the committee that investigated GM Evans, "was Bill Goichberg insisting these were copies.

The way he presented it, it was difficult to turn your back on that."

Poor Judgment?

GM Evans and others have criticized Goichberg's judgment in light not only of Evans' exoneration but also of Goichberg's methodology. States Evans, "I also received a hit letter from San Luis Obispo and simply took the envelope to a photocopy store and asked a clerk if the label was an original or a copy. The clerk answered in about five seconds -- it was an original.

Then, I contacted an eminent police documents examiner and received his opinion that it was an original. The cost was only $50 -- not the $670 billed to the USCF!"

Goichberg critics argue that before pressuring the Policy Board to undertake what turned out to be a baseless and, they say, embarrassing investigation, he ought to have done his homework like Evans did. Says Goichberg in reply, "I acted on the basis of a reasonable theory.

The theory was obviously mistaken, but there was no attempt to manufacture evidence."

One Goichberg supporter says, "Look, Bill got caught up in Jerry Hanken's witch-hunt hysteria. McCarthyism has no place in chess. I know that. But Goichberg is an institution, and he shouldn't be judged by this single lapse any more than we should condemn Denis Barry for once opposing no-smoking rules in tournaments."

-- Larry Parr

Holding back the growth of chess

THIS CRAZY WORLD OF CHESS
by GM Larry Evans (page 129)

Lev Alburt was the first grandmaster elected to the seven member USCF board of directors and soon became the odd man out. In this exclusive interview he pierces the veil of secrecy and begins naming names.

After defecting from the USSR in 1979 he settled in Manhattan, married, and quickly became a fixture in American chess. After capturing our nation’s highest title three times, he retired from tournaments to write books and give lessons.

INTERVIEW WITH GM LEV ALBURT

EVANS: Lev, it’s hard to believe that people who are supposed to promote chess in America are actually holding back its growth.

ALBURT: I couldn’t believe it myself. But I learned that everyone in the business office and above all members of the board were interested primarily in doing almost nothing. Nothing real. Nothing to promote chess. When I get together with Allen Kaufman or Jimmy Sherwin of the American Chess Foundation we usually discuss ways to promote growth and emulate the success of England, which sprang from nowhere to one of the top nations.

EVANS: Didn’t the board discuss these things?

ALBURT: No. I was extremely surprised that such topics were never addressed. Never, ever.

EVANS: What was their goal?

ALBURT: Let me continue. Even when we went to a restaurant I always expected them to bring up the subject of what can be done to make chess grow. But always the topics during our sessions was who should run for the board next year, who should be awarded national tournaments, or how to avoid being attacked by critics.

EVANS: Well, what did they get out of serving on the board?

ALBURT: Perks, of course. Free trips, and so forth. Some old timers look upon the federation as their toy, their plaything. They hang around people they chummed with for years. They love to give each other awards. When I left they offered me a Certificate of Service, but I said I wasn’t interested in such things.

EVANS: The board voted to ban tape recorders from open sessions but had to back down when Friends of the USCF blasted them in its newsletter. Isn’t the board spending more and more time in closed session anyway?

ALBURT: They discuss a lot of things in private which to my mind don’t belong in closed session. They often use these sessions as an excuse to say nasty things they would not dare to repeat in public. Sometimes they knock people I respect and I challenge them to produce evidence or shut up.

EVANS: So didn’t they become more careful around you?

ALBURT: To some extent I think I spoiled the good feeling they shared together—the feeling that the less anyone outside knows, the better. When someone new was elected to the board, they immediately closed ranks and developed a bond. Even reform candidates wanted to become one of the boys as soon as they were elected.

Additional comments by Paul Truong, current USCF Board Member

This is exactly how things work today. It has not changed much since GM Alburt was on the board. And it will never change as long as the same people and their political allies are on the board. Many of the votes will go straight party line regardless of the merit of the motion. Is it a coincidence that the same Bill Goichberg, Randy Hough and Jerry Hanken launched a baseless political investigation against GM Larry Evans some years back using members’ money? You decide.

We asked Bill Goichberg point blank if he was aware of bribe offers (hotel room, airline tickets, free entry fees, etc.) by his friends to bring various people to Dallas to be certified as delegates to skew the votes. He flat out said no when he WAS copied on many of these correspondences. He and Randy Hough also certified these individuals as delegates from their perspective states. In one correspondence, it was stressed specifically that they MUST sign up this non-USCF member before August. Otherwise this person could not become a delegate.

Instead of focusing on how to sustain the membership or how to make chess so much larger with new members, benefits and revenues, the board majority abuses members' fund for their own political motive. It is especially irresponsible in this economy. They will do everything in their power, legal or not, to oust their political opponents. The same board members are using members’ money to defend the wrong doing of non-board members.

I believe the USCF is losing more than $330,000 this year so far. This number will escalate dramatically by the time this fiscal year ends. The same people are doing everything they can to hide the facts from the members. The USCF just received $400,000 bequests. How much of it will be left by the time they are done playing politics?

Susan and I have repeatedly offered to open up all confidential BINFO and closed session recordings. We requested to have our experts examine the USCF database. The same board majority rejected these ideas. They also purposely hide critical evidence from everyone, including the court.

A lot of the facts will come out shortly in the proper venue. I do not believe they can continue withholding information.

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USCF Finances

	Current Qtr This Year	%	Current Qtr Last Year	%	Year to Date This Year	%	Year to Date Last Year	%
Membership Revenue
Regular Membership	$ 128,225	21.29	$ 195,136	26.75	$ 270,936	22.93	$ 342,655	26.46
Senior	24,723	4.10	31,101	4.26	51,287	4.34	49,225	3.80
Family	27,843	4.62	22,425	3.07	38,886	3.29	35,210	2.72
Young Adult	30,941	5.14	34,354	4.71	44,699	3.78	47,754	3.69
Youth	46,220	7.67	44,632	6.12	64,735	5.48	62,253	4.81
Scholastic	119,516	19.84	125,792	17.25	147,613	12.49	153,001	11.81
Sustaining	6,569	1.09	5,855	0.80	14,443	1.22	14,576	1.13
Life	6,000	1.00	4,500	0.62	13,000	1.10	11,000	0.85
Trial Memberships	372	0.06	1,004	0.14	1,102	0.09	2,264	0.17
Tournament Memberships	1,591	0.26	(47)	(0.01)	1,567	0.13	(77)	(0.01)
Affiliate memberships	11,142	1.85	10,520	1.44	18,972	1.61	18,160	1.40
Misc. Memberships	1,245	0.21	2,060	0.28	3,003	0.25	4,249	0.33
Total Membership Revenues	404,387	67.14	477,332	65.45	670,243	56.71	740,270	57.15
Sales
Warehouse	136	0.02	535	0.07	139	0.01	1,126	0.09
Chess Cafe	25,185	4.18	34,857	4.78	49,483	4.19	68,993	5.33
Total Sales	25,321	4.20	35,392	4.85	49,622	4.20	70,119	5.41
Magazine Revenue
C/L Newsstand	3,171	0.53	(170)	(0.02)	7,018	0.59	926	0.07
C/L Advertising	24,120	4.00	25,744	3.53	48,448	4.10	53,623	4.14
C/L Subscriptions	11,577	1.92	12,528	1.72	16,940	1.43	18,846	1.46
TLA's	11,721	1.95	10,564	1.45	22,509	1.90	22,840	1.76
Total Magazine Revenue	50,589	8.40	48,666	6.67	94,915	8.03	96,235	7.43
Other Services
USCF Rating Fees	30,251	5.02	22,224	3.05	53,702	4.54	38,501	2.97
Crosstable Fees	162	0.03	224	0.03	302	0.03	386	0.03
Mailing List	1,568	0.26	2,462	0.34	3,315	0.28	3,902	0.30
FIDE Fees	3,260	0.54	0	0.00	8,094	0.68	0	0.00
Total Other Services	35,241	5.85	24,910	3.42	65,413	5.54	42,789	3.30
Tournament Revenues
Tournaments - USCF	81,229	13.49	50,107	6.87	159,267	13.48	226,741	17.51
Tournaments - Other	504	0.08	0	0.00	11,272	0.95	0	0.00
Correspondence Chess	3,557	0.59	2,295	0.31	7,300	0.62	4,173	0.32
Tournaments - FIDE	(1,961)	(0.33)	67,360	9.24	87,034	7.36	68,457	5.29
Total Tournament Revenues	83,329	13.84	119,762	16.42	264,873	22.41	299,371	23.11
Other Misc. Income
Royalties	1,604	0.27	2,544	0.35	7,825	0.66	9,720	0.75
Fundraising	50	0.01	444	0.06	50	0.00	444	0.03
Donations - General	312	0.05	1,485	0.20	24,715	2.09	14,028	1.08
Donations - GM Benefits	0	0.00	789	0.11	0	0.00	1,502	0.12
Interest Income	7,035	1.17	11,977	1.64	7,061	0.60	14,574	1.13
Other Misc. Income	18	0.00	6,981	0.96	3,249	0.27	7,076	0.55
Dividend Income	1,201	0.20	377	0.05	2,407	0.20	377	0.03
Gain/(Loss) on LMA Investments	(6,783)	(1.13)	(1,300)	(0.18)	(8,582)	(0.73)	(1,300)	(0.10)
Total Other Misc Income	3,437	0.57	23,297	3.19	36,725	3.11	46,421	3.58
Total Revenue	602,304	100.00	729,359	100.00	1,181,791	100.00	1,295,205	100.00
Magazine Expenses
Printing Expenses	77,530	12.87	80,276	11.01	158,440	13.41	163,877	12.65
Mailing Expenses	85,568	14.21	78,408	10.75	148,905	12.60	150,657	11.63
Contributor Fees - Publication	24,471	4.06	24,060	3.30	46,499	3.93	52,494	4.05
C/L Newstand Expenses	2,531	0.42	0	0.00	4,125	0.35	0	0.00
Total Magazine Expenses	190,100	31.56	182,744	25.06	357,969	30.29	367,028	28.34
Books & Equipment
Catalog Mailing - Publications	316	0.05	387	0.05	479	0.04	584	0.05
Total Books & Equipment	316	0.05	387	0.05	479	0.04	584	0.05
Web Services
Web Site Design & Maint-Memb	2,000	0.33	0	0.00	6,000	0.51	0	0.00
Total Web Services	2,000	0.33	0	0.00	6,000	0.51	0	0.00
Promotional
Gift Certificates	14	0.00	0	0.00	116	0.01	0	0.00
Rating Supplements	0	0.00	(5)	(0.00)	0	0.00	(12)	(0.00)
Renewals & Promotions	15,536	2.58	6,392	0.88	19,649	1.66	18,841	1.45
Fundraising Expense	0	0.00	160	0.02	0	0.00	110	0.01
Advertising	162	0.03	1,746	0.24	274	0.02	2,186	0.17
Total Promotional	15,712	2.61	8,293	1.14	20,039	1.70	21,125	1.63
Tournament
Tour. Exp. - USCF	29,170	4.84	(14,311)	(1.96)	110,264	9.33	164,810	12.72
Tour. Exp. - FIDE	75,738	12.57	89,364	12.25	189,827	16.06	91,867	7.09
Correspondence Chess Expense	1,375	0.23	0	0.00	4,862	0.41	0	0.00
Total Tournament	106,283	17.65	75,053	10.29	304,953	25.80	256,677	19.82
Personnel
Payroll	186,623	30.98	184,980	25.36	349,244	29.55	378,978	29.26
Fringe Benefits	23,616	3.92	23,764	3.26	46,842	3.96	46,531	3.59
Workmens' Comp. Insurance	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00	165	0.01
Payroll Taxes	13,891	2.31	13,704	1.88	26,311	2.23	28,740	2.22
Profit Sharing	41,267	6.85	0	0.00	41,267	3.49	0	0.00
Employee Incentives	398	0.07	574	0.08	883	0.07	1,114	0.09
Total Personnel	265,795	44.13	223,022	30.58	464,547	39.31	455,528	35.17
General and Administrative
Airfare Expenses	0	0.00	(1,301)	(0.18)	0	0.00	2,478	0.19
Food & Lodging Expenses	0	0.00	295	0.04	250	0.02	2,461	0.19
Mileage/Parking/Car Rental	336	0.06	4,388	0.60	410	0.03	7,073	0.55
Per Diem Expenses	652	0.11	3,100	0.43	1,302	0.11	6,230	0.48
Miscellaneous Travel	2,831	0.47	2,098	0.29	4,047	0.34	3,262	0.25
Contract Employee	42,338	7.03	0	0.00	80,704	6.83	0	0.00
General Postage	9,290	1.54	30,759	4.22	20,392	1.73	35,703	2.76
Office Supplies	2,383	0.40	3,744	0.51	5,948	0.50	9,467	0.73
Professional Fees	96,977	16.10	67,236	9.22	119,994	10.15	119,278	9.21
Rent - Warehouse-Admin.	0	0.00	1,725	0.24	0	0.00	3,450	0.27
Utilities - Telephone	6,298	1.05	6,415	0.88	12,402	1.05	12,706	0.98
Utilities - Elect/Gas/Water	4,034	0.67	2,632	0.36	6,838	0.58	4,176	0.32
Gen. Liability Insurance	4,350	0.72	8,215	1.13	8,700	0.74	15,285	1.18
Repairs & Maint.	4,218	0.70	4,738	0.65	13,806	1.17	9,931	0.77
Property Taxes	1,204	0.20	3,788	0.52	1,204	0.10	3,788	0.29
Computer Software	0	0.00	0	0.00	557	0.05	0	0.00
Office Equipment	0	0.00	33	0.00	109	0.01	33	0.00
Rent - Equipt.	2,559	0.42	4,662	0.64	7,317	0.62	8,465	0.65
Commissions-Memberships	222	0.04	80	0.01	1,191	0.10	80	0.01
Interest Expense	10,561	1.75	7,872	1.08	17,877	1.51	15,473	1.19
LMA Investment Fees	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00	20	0.00
Bank Charges	803	0.13	148	0.02	1,683	0.14	256	0.02
Credit Card Charges	12,700	2.11	13,693	1.88	25,793	2.18	26,014	2.01
Miscellaneous Expenses	503	0.08	987	0.14	1,980	0.17	4,059	0.31
Total General and Administrative	202,259	33.58	165,307	22.66	332,504	28.14	289,688	22.37
Governance
Executive Board Expenses	0	0.00	621	0.09	0	0.00	621	0.05
FIDE Governance	0	0.00	5,102	0.70	0	0.00	5,102	0.39
Election Expense	0	0.00	0	0.00	6,701	0.57	6,409	0.49
US Open Governance	11,671	1.94	4,668	0.64	16,067	1.36	16,378	1.26
Travel - Executive Board	449	0.07	888	0.12	1,265	0.11	2,214	0.17
Misc. - Executive Board	2,330	0.39	919	0.13	3,050	0.26	1,968	0.15
Total Governance	14,450	2.40	12,198	1.67	27,083	2.29	32,692	2.52
Total Expenses	(796,915)	(132.31)	(667,004)	(91.45)	(1,513,574)	(128.07)	(1,423,322)	(109.89)
Net Cash Income (Loss)	(194,611)	(32.31)	62,355	8.55	(331,783)	(28.07)	(128,117)	(9.89)
		0.00		0.00		0.00		0.00
Noncash (Income) and Expenses		0.00		0.00		0.00		0.00
Curr. Def.- Reg. Adult	27,797	4.62	75,847	10.40	56,179	4.75	123,178	9.51
Prior Year Deferred	(32,300)	(5.36)	(42,600)	(5.84)	(64,600)	(5.47)	(85,200)	(6.58)
Curr. Def.- Senior	6,411	1.06	13,258	1.82	13,253	1.12	17,969	1.39
Prior Years Deferred	(5,174)	(0.86)	0	0.00	(10,349)	(0.88)	0	0.00
Curr.Def.-Young Adult	5,185	0.86	10,203	1.40	8,086	0.68	13,621	1.05
Prior Years Deferred	(4,808)	(0.80)	0	0.00	(9,615)	(0.81)	0	0.00
Curr. Def. - Youth	6,127	1.02	9,935	1.36	9,103	0.77	14,748	1.14
Prior Years Deferred	(3,128)	(0.52)	0	0.00	(6,255)	(0.53)	0	0.00
Curr. Def.- Scholastic	12,312	2.04	21,152	2.90	15,906	1.35	26,513	2.05
Prior Years Deferred	(8,485)	(1.41)	0	0.00	(16,969)	(1.44)	0	0.00
Curr. Def.- Sustaining	5,906	0.98	620	0.09	11,479	0.97	3,201	0.25
Prior Years Deferred	(1,397)	(0.23)	(568)	(0.08)	(2,704)	(0.23)	(1,960)	(0.15)
Curr. Def.- Life Member	5,906	0.98	4,275	0.59	12,556	1.06	10,350	0.80
Prior Years Deferred	(24,955)	(4.14)	(10,794)	(1.48)	(48,366)	(4.09)	(37,431)	(2.89)
Depr. & Amortization	15,193	2.52	14,193	1.95	29,441	2.49	28,560	2.21
Net Noncash (Income)/Expenses	4,590	0.76	95,521	13.10	(2,855)	(0.24)	113,549	8.77
Net Income (Loss)	($ 199,201)	(33.07)	($ 33,166)	(4.55)	($ 328,928)	(27.83)	($ 241,666)	(18.66)