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StanB

2004-11-29, 5:47 pm


"Sam Sloan" <sloan@ishipress.com> wrote in message
news:41ab2da6.28091437@ca.news.verio.net...
quote:

> Tony Cottell last attended a USCF Delegate's meeting in Framingham,
> Massachusetts in 2001. Before that, he was a regular and served two
> three year terms as USCF Treasurer. It was while Cottell was treasurer
> that the USCF build up a reserve in the LMA of $2 million.


Mutually exclusive. He did nothing to make the reserve. That credit goes to
Al Lawrence.
quote:

> Cottell did not come to the 2002 meeting in Cherry Hill NJ even though
> he lives nearby in New Jersey. At this meting, motions were passed
> weakening the LMA and Cottell would have been screaming had he been
> there.


Cottell, a CPA, was the principal architect of the non-GAAP system of
accounting for the LMA.
quote:

> It it true that Cottell was disliked and unpopular. It it also true
> that had not Cottell done some unpopular things, the USCF would have
> been out of business years ago. Had Cottell not been defeated when he
> ran again for treasurer, the USCF would still have $2 million in the
> bank and would still own the building in New Windsor.


Nonsense. Ibid above. Tony was another one of those crackpots that gravitate
to chess. History will him place amid the Sloans, Bibulds, and Parrs that
haunt chess.




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