Dear USA Boxing Member:
As your newly appointed member to the BOD of USA Boxing in the capacity of the LBC representative, my responsibility is to you and to keep you fully informed about the state of amateur boxing. I was originally going to write an "I told you so letter" for that dreadful day in Chicago when the USOC and Tom Virgets coerced you into signing all your rights away. However, the situation is too grave to look back, we are now placed in the position of trying to save USA Boxing. I attended my first BOD meeting in March 2009 and within the first 5 minutes I found myself apologizing to the Board for blaming them on not watching your money. I found out a short time latter that they didn't event know that our money was not being spent properly. Naturally this was all blamed on the new governance which you voted on in Chicago, which prohibited interference by the Board with the Executive Director. At least that was the excuse. The USOC saw it differently.

Fact:   
USOC audited USA Boxing and blame the Board of Directors for failure to oversee your funds and accuse the BOD of misappropriation 

Truth:   
The BOD did not misappropriate d funds they just failed to put the breaks on with an Executive Director that went on a spending spree with our money. Nothing illegal just an abdication of responsibility by your Board.   

Fact:
USA Boxing Foundation sues and wins settlement of $1.8 Million from USA Boxing 

Truth:   
This is like the money you have been saving for your child's education suddenly being needed and you use it and he sues you. However, what went wrong here is that you Board of Directors with the advice of the Executive Directors thought they found a way of getting more money out of the Foundation by stacking the Board of the Foundation with extra votes. Naturally the Foundation members who have been protecting your money all these years did not like it and the courts agreed. Now there is very little money left to continue the wonderful scholarship program we had and money to support the women's program.   

Fact:   
USA Boxing hired an expert marketer in Jim Millman as their Executive Director. 

Truth:   
Mr. Millman's expertise was hiring marketing companies and individuals to do the job he was hire to do. He spent hundreds of thousands of dollars with not a penny to show in return. He stated, "you have to spend money to make money" I say, if it were his money would he be spending it so lavishly? At last c ount there were 2 marketing companies and 3 outside individuals that received over $50,000. also marketing people he had on staff collecting salaries on a weekly basis, all supported by your membership dollars because he was not able to raise a dime. You BOD let this go on and on and on.   

Fact:   
There were 18 full time employees as of June 1,2009 

Truth:
Mr. Millman was told in March when we passed the annual budget that he needed to get the employee count down to 12. This was Gross insubordination   

Fact:
The Board of Directors approved an expense of $250,000 for the National Championships 

Truth:   
Staff and Mr. Millman spent $500,000 seriously jeopardizing our financial well being.   

Fact:
Membership sent $830,000 to Colorado Spring from January to March. This number represents about 70% of membership revenue 

Truth:   
Mr. Millman spent all our money in the first 3 months of the year rather than stay on budget.   

Fact:   
Rule book jeopardizes safety 

Truth:   
Our Chief of Officials Mr. Orci was caught and embarrassed at an arbitration because he could not defend the rules of USA Boxing because Mr. Millman and staff took out of our rules the whole=2 0Grievance process. Because of this our rules are basically useless.   

Fact:   
National Coach selection has been an exercise in frustration for members. Mr. Millman and his wannabe heir would not relinquish the process to the coaches that understand what was needed. 

Truth:   
Mr. Millman solely selected the 2 finalists. Are we getting the best person?   

Fact:   
Newark NJ J will be hosting the Pan Am women's boxing 

Truth:   
We may not even send a team because there is no money. Hopefully this will be rectified. This will be an embarrassment not to send a team when the tournament is on US Soil.   

Fact:   
The USOC has violated our autonomy and if it continues, should be brought up on charges for violation of the Amateur Sports Act 

Truth:   
That's the way thing were with despots like Warwick and Shear. USOC has individuals in place now that are truly concerned about our welfare. Individuals that will allow us to function. Our problem now are within and we need changes.   

Fact:   
Board of Directors failed to manage our money 

Truth:   
Treasurer of the Board before me was appointed by the USOC and he did not exercise due diligence.       

In conclusion:   

The list goes on and on but you can all see that because of the governance change that you voted on, your money, your rules and the boxing program itself is not being taken care of. We need oversight, we need a board that answers to us, we need a say on how our money is being spent and more importantly we need leadership that will stand up to anyone that tries to interfere in our business. 

We, as members created this problem by voting away our rights in Chicago , we are the only ones that can take it back.   

I am proposing a telephone conference of all the LBC presidents to work out the details. The lifeblood of USA Boxing are the LBC's and together we can bring USA Boxing back home where it belongs.   

Those of you that are interested in a telephone conference, please notify me within one week and I will arrange it. Naturally anyone can participate, however I believe any taking back should be by the LBC representatives. Once we get things back we will work on restoring all our rights and restoring our Constitution and Bylaws.   

We don't have much time left, act now if we are going to act.