Posted on 09/06/2001 5:49:39 AM PDT by harpseal
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)
BEIJING -- After 18 anxious months, the family of an American electrical engineer detained by Chinese security agents is hoping that President Bush's upcoming visit to China will help win his release.
Fong Fuming of West Orange, N.J., was detained in February 2000 and accused of bribing officials for secret documents.
His family had previously kept silent about his detention, hoping that quiet appeals might win his release, said Jerome A. Cohen, a New York University expert in Chinese law who is advising the family.
After meetings with State Department officials and congressional staff in recent weeks, the family decided to go public. They believe Bush's visit next month offers "a narrow window of opportunity" to bring Fong's case to the atention of senior Chinese leaders, Cohen said.
Fong worked as a power official in eastern China before he moved to the United States in 1989. He became a U.S. citizen in 1994 and worked as a consultant to foreign firms interested in power projects in China and elsewhere in Asia.
Fong had come back to China to help an American power company bid for a contract when he was detained on Feb. 28, 2000.
The family also is upset at Chinese authorities' treatment of Fong, Cohen said in a telephone interview from New York. The 66-year-old is hard of hearing and nearsighted, but officials have taken away his hearing aid and, most of the time, his glasses, too.
Fong's two sons, both American citizens, "have gone from an attitude of being patient and trying to be understanding to an attitude of being really angered," Cohen said.
MONACO: FREE TED NOW!
Ted suffered life-threatening stab and slash wounds defending Edmond Safra from two masked intruders--
Yet Monaco's gestapo presents a pristine jumpsuit as the clothes he was wearing that night. . .
The gestapo didn't get the memo:
Safra staff wore dress shirts and slacks--
Le gestapo c'est "busted"!
. . .not lily-white. . .
HAND OVER TED MAHER
Stay well - Yorktown
Stay well - Yorktown
Phil - "Monaco presents a pristine jumpsuit.
Safra's staff wore dress shirts and slacks."
Phil, brilliant! Lt. Columbo would be proud!
MONACO: You can't wash the truth away!
FREE TED NOW!
MONACO: FREE AMERICAN TED MAHER NOW!!!
Did you read you read #318 on the previous thread VI (link at the top of this thread) where Monaco put Ted into solitary confinement for 10 days and is not even allowing visits from his priest?!
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