Originally Posted by
Victor Itkin
Vlad, govern yourself accordingly. The question about Les Bunning's status with the CFC was asked by me personally. I never ever went against CMA, or FQE, or Les Bunning whom I respect a lot. Maybe I was lightly criticizing FIDE in one of my posts, which is what many do. If Les Bunning is not the official lawyer of the CFC, then he obviously could give you free friendly advice. So, one more time: this is not about CMA or FIDE or FQE or Les Bunning. This is about you, and we are going against you.
With the episode related to Les Bunning's advice, you have misled (and not for the first time) the CFC Voting Members. It was you who informed us that based on the long term CFC lawyer advice, you single-handedly cancelled the unanimous decision of the CFC Board of Directors to dismiss the CFC Officer for inappropriate behaviour. Perhaps, you had the right to do this, if you received the legal advice from the official CFC lawyer. That's exactly how your statement sounded. And now it appears, that you did this just because one of the CFC Voting Members, who is a lawyer, gave you such informal friendly advice. Based on such an informal advise, you did not have any right to overturn the unanimous decision of the Board of Directors. This is violation of your fiduciary duty to the CFC.
Les Bunning could give any friendly advise. He hasn't done anything wrong. You've done it.