Posted on 03/20/2002 7:52:49 AM PST by Nita Nupress
Ted Maher -- former Special Forces; Neonatal Intensive Care nurse
American Green Beret veteran and accomplished neonatal nurse Ted Maher has now been held 537 days without trial in Monaco's prison on trumped-up and false charges -- charges of causing the deaths of billionaire banker Edmond Safra and Ted's fellow nurse, Vivian Torrente on December 3, 1999. In truth, Ted fought valiantly against two armed, masked intruders to defend Edmond and Vivian and save their lives. During the struggle, Ted suffered severe knife wounds that required one hundred staples to close.
Billionaire banker Edmond Safra was cooperating with the FBI, who was investigating the IMF/Russian loans. Needing a convenient scapegoat for the murder of Safra, Monaco police subjected Ted to three days of grueling torture designed to extort a false confession from him. (see description in "BASIC TIMELINE" in Thread 1 - http://206.112.97.70/forum/a3ad8b097272d.htm ).
Monaco continues to hold Ted incommunicado, preventing him from sending or receiving mail. In fact, they restrict his communication with his family to one telephone call a week. This call is only allowed to last a few minutes and is always monitored closely to prevent any discussion of the case. Ted is forced by his jailers to take a psychotropic medication and is regularly "interrogated" by the Monaco judge -- Patricia Richet. Reports have been received that Judge Richet is a violent person who has displayed unstable behavior in the past. She allegedly has a history of assaulting a fellow judge, putting him in the hospital for a week. She also tears up letters from Ted's children in front of Ted rather than let him read them.
Hundreds of family, friends, work associates, parents of patients, and Army veterans who served with Ted have vouched for him as being a loyal husband, loving father, and an exemplary professional of great skill and compassion. Ted has also been defended by then-chairman of the House International Relations Committee Ben Gilman and Ted's congresswoman Sue Kelly, who have written Prince Rainier III of Monaco on Ted's behalf. Monaco has no evidence of any crime by Ted; they have no witnesses and no credible case against him. Even worse, Monaco has planted false evidence and suppressed vast amounts of exculpatory evidence -- even passing a special Monaco law that enables them to hold Ted four years without trial.
The Geneva prosecutor has said that Safra was killed for his cooperation with the FBI regarding the laundering through Safra's Republic National Bank of $4.8 billion in IMF loans to Russia.
Regardless of the reason "why," it is obvious that Ted Maher is a scapegoat for a murder by others. We are working to obtain his release and to correct the grave injustice being done to an American Green beret veteran and medical professional.
Ted Maher -- a giver of life, not a taker -- needs our help.
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To read the "BASIC TIMELINE" that describes the events surrounding the night of December 3, 1999, click here:
American Green Beret Veteran TED MAHER Held Hostage by Monaco for 498 Days and Counting... (Thread I)
To read the "BASIC TIMELINE
American Green Beret Veteran TED MAHER Held Hostage by Monaco for 537 Days and Counting... (Thread II)
American Green Beret Veteran TED MAHER Held Hostage by Monaco for 544 Days and Counting... (Thread III)
American Green Beret Veteran TED MAHER Held Hostage by Monaco for 544 Days and Counting... (Thread IV)
American Green Beret Veteran TED MAHER Held Hostage by Monaco for 615 Days and Counting... (second Thread IV)
American Green Beret Veteran TED MAHER Held Hostage by Monaco for 629 Days and Counting... (Thread VI)
American Green Beret Vet TED MAHER Held HOSTAGE by Monaco for 629 Days (Thread 6) second thread 6"
American Green Beret Vet TED MAHER Held HOSTAGE by Monaco for 629 Days (Thread 10)
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Amen,......More Grace and Mercy,.......In Jesus' Precious Name, Amen!!!
Two masked intruders entered the penthouse armed with knives.
Emergency calls failed to bring Monaco police.
Ted put a Laura Slatkin scented candle (always burning to mask Safra's diarrhea; Slatkin is the Safra friend who recommended Ted) in a waste basket to concentrate its smoke, and held it up to a smoke detector to summon help.
The first alarm was received at 4:54 a.m. per the official fire report.
Within minutes Ted had staggered down to the Concierge and was rushed to Princess Grace Hospital.
There, Ted received approximately one hundred staples and numerous transfusions--not the "superficial self-inflicted wounds" Serdet said at all.
The hospital tested Ted for drugs and alcohol and its results were "negatif. . .negatif. . .negatif".
This was shown on NBC Dateline November 21, 2000, "Who Killed the Billionaire?"
This alone refutes the preposterous and slanderous lie of Monaco prosecutor Daniel Serdet.
Serdet poisoned the world press with his mammoth fraud lapped up eagerly by Time's Thomas Sancton.
Monaco put Ted in four-point restraint, catheterized, sleep-deprived, interrogating and threatening him for three days.
Monaco concurrently kidnapped Ted's wife Heidi and her brother Todd and stole their U.S. Passports, using hers to threaten Ted.
Monaco told Ted that they were strip-searching and torturing his wife, and that they would detain her indefinitely unless he signed their prepared false confession in French which Ted does not read, write or speak.
To further threaten Ted and Heidi, Monaco showed photos of the couple's three children--at home in New York. And played tapes of the children's voices.
Having thus been FORCED TO SIGN A FALSE CONFESSION (which fact Dominick Dunne repeatedly writes in Vanity Fair and tells to Larry King and his audience), Ted was not permitted to correct this slanderous fraud by his Monaco-appointed "defense" attorneys.
Ted's mail, visits, phone calls for 976 days have been blocked, choked to a trickle: a single call a week, and most of his mail never gets in or out.
Thus wrongly imprisoned, framed, muzzled and betrayed, Ted is now ignored by his representative, Senators, State Department.
Perhaps these are more concerned with staying in the good graces of the Prince, the wealthy widow, the voters ignorant of Ted's plight.
Perhaps they've found the coverup simplest, the conspiracy too complicated, and the path of least resistance to be inertia.
Is it too much to ask that this government actually BE "for the people"?
No, the government of, by and for the people should be outraged by the multiple crimes committed against an innocent and honorable citizen, and should work tirelessly to attain his release.
Washington, it is just this simple:
Amen,........More Grace and Mercy,.........In JESUS' Precious Name, Amen!!!
Amen,........More Grace and Mercy,.........In JESUS' Precious Name, Amen!!!
Amen,........More Grace and Mercy,.........In JESUS' Precious Name, Amen!!!
Amen,........More Grace and Mercy,.........In JESUS' Precious Name, Amen!!!
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