In today’s story in the Times-Herald Record, NY State Assemblyman Greg Ball continues to downplay his connection to the now infamous White House State Dinner Crashers, Tareq and Michaele Salahi with whom he planned the Courage Cup in 2005. He also threatens legal action, according to the Times-Herald Record:
The Salahi controversy has also forced Ball [...]

According to the Poughkeepsie Journal.com, NY State Assemblyman Greg Ball is now denying he was close to Tareq Salahi. They write that “Ball said he was not a close friend of the Salahis, ‘but anyone in polo circles on the East Coast knows who they are.’”
This was sent to a few people in November 2006
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