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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This has gone far beyond absurd. I understand the differences in legal systems and the fact that Maher doesn't have a constitutional right to a speedy trial like we enjoy here.
But this is completely unfair under any reasonable analysis.
Raise that point in another 800 days or so, and you're talking apples to apples.
One of my dear friends is a very good friend (20+ yrs) with one of your lifelong buddies. My dear friend has even talked to you on the phone. For this reason, I feel like I 'know you,' at least in some small, indirect way. But more importantly, because of these above relationships, I know beyond a doubt, proof positive that you are genuinely a trustworthy, kind-hearted, and honorable man. I know that you are a man of honor who loves his fellow man. Please do what you can to bring Ted home. Thank you.
I'm sure this entire thing must be embarrassing for Monaco; they've dug quite a hole for themselves, haven't they? It's not exactly like they can just let him go and still save face, but at least they could give the man a trial and stop stalling. His kids need him home.
;^)
-BTTT-
Tres classy, Nita. Monaco only gets positive press from the American media. Think there are any former despots and tinpot dictators lounging on the expensive shores? Maybe some terrorist supporters? We need to hold Monaco's feet to the fire (Ack, sorry). Funny how the big leftist lawyers aren't interested in Ted's case...mistreated American medical worker in the clutches of the powerful and wealthy...where's Dershowitz?
>Videotape from the penthouse security camera(s) "missing"
>The police emergency tape from December 3, 1999 "missing"
>The cell phone records for Edmond and Vivian suppressed
>Sonia's three accounts in the fire report contradictory
>The first official Monaco press report stated two intruders
>Initial reports said Mr. Safra was shot twice as was Lily's second husband Alfredo Monteverde who left her two hundred million dollars shooting himself twice in the heart
>Lily changed Edmond's will shortly before his death
>Lily changed their citizenship to Monagasque before his death
>Boaz Bismuth said "the lady" sent the security team away
>"Someone" disconnected the burglar alarm July 1, 1999
>No autopsy report has been released
>Multiple ignition sources reported in the fire report
>"Sudden conflagration" at 6:00 a.m.--an hour after Ted was rushed to Princess Grace Hospital with knife wounds
>False ceilings, a trap door to the attic, special air handling equipment for independent ventilation to Edmond and Lily
>Steel roller blinds controlled separately for Edmond from an electric panel which "failed" during the attack, the blinds made manually inoperable by covering the hand crank access with "decoration"--yet Lily's remained open allowing her "escape"
>Lily had Edmond buried in Switzerland despite his lifelong wish to be buried in Israel--thwarting exhumation?
>Lily wouldn't allow the brothers near the coffin at the funeral
>The police claim Ted knifed himself--yet no medical professional would risk deadly infection by cutting himself over the intestines, and the wound locations made them extremely awkward for Ted to have caused, and the wounds required one hundred staples to close and multiple transfusions--making them far more likely to have been defensive wounds suffered in an attack than self-inflicted, and the police had TWO knives
>The police suppressed and destroyed Ted's original clothing which was slashed and bloody from the attack, provided instead brand-new undamaged and unstained sportswear, clothing Ted did not own and which would have been forbidden to be worn on shift tending Mr. Safra
>The prosecutor claimed Ted was using drugs, but the hospital tests showed Ted negatif negatif negatif for drugs and alcohol
>Lily paid her medical supervisor Sonia Casiano-Herkrath one hundred thousand dollars in a "confidentiality agreement"--
and it was Sonia's [contradictory] testimony that is the sole account of Edmond and Vivian's calls and condition
>False confession in French--Ted does not read/write/speak
>Three days in four-point restraint, catheterized, sleep-deprived
>Police kidnap Heidi, steal passport, use to threaten Ted
>Photos and tapes of children used to threaten Ted >Ted's mail and telephone communication suppressed Consular visits must be prompted by repeated complaint Even his priest's visits have been prevented on flimsy pretext
>Judge D'Instruction Patricia Richet hugged Lily, screamed at Ted, "I know that you are guilty!" tore up children's letters
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