Well, I see once again the media doesn’t get something quite right, referring to him as a ‘former master’. Although we have no record of his having played in a USCF rated game since late 1991, his USCF rating is still 2306.
No doubt Snyder will ponder that while organizing prison chess tournaments to get his rating up. 
Snyder is not currently a certified TD.
Was Bloodgood a TD?
I don’t know, the USCF records I have access to don’t go back that far.
I think the USCF’s TD certification procedures have changed quite a bit since then, and I know tournament validation procedures have changed quite a bit since then.
We’ll just have to be ready for Snyder Tournaments with Snyder or another inmate friend as the TD. 
Not sure, but it wouldn’t have mattered. TD certification didn’t start until around 1973, when Bloodgood had already pumped up his rating.
Let’s try to put ourselves into Snyder’s position. He’s in prison and wants to pump his rating. Does he get another inmate to join the USCF and become a TD? If they do, I assume we (the USCF) has to keep tabs on who is playing in these tournaments and what Snyder’s relationship to them is.
Nolan wrote:
Perhaps it’s just interpretation. I took the article to mean formerly of Fort Collins.
The exact quote is: “A judge Tuesday sentenced former Fort Collins chess master Robert Snyder to at least 12 years and possibly life in the custody of the Department of Corrections after fleeing the country following a pedophilia conviction.”
But the headline is
You’re right. I was so focused on the article, I didn’t read the headline.
Possibly a reporter wrote the story and an editor wrote the headline.
My journalist friends tell me that the headline writers are considered to be the weirdest employees at their papers. They seem to be big fans of puns, too. But at least they’re not poets. (Puns are bad, but poetry is verse.)
I suspect both the reporter and the headline writer made similar errors here.
Regarding Snyder and any potential tournaments he might organize or participate in while he is in prison, why should he be treated differently from any other USCF members in prison?
However, his TD certification was suspended by the office when he became a fugitive.