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)
This is to let you in Washington know that there is a large and growing circle of family and friends of TED MAHER becoming ever more concerned that you act on his behalf.
While Monaco's Director of Juridical Affairs Patrice Davost attempted a royal snow job with his recent--and very tardy--response to the previous queries of Sue Kelly and Ben Gilman, it's clear that M. Davost is full of compost.
It is a fact that innocent American citizen TED MAHER is spending his 644th day without trial in a foreign prison, and continues to be deprived of access to incoming mail, freedom to write letters, even the ONE phone call per week has been suspended.
While Monaco claims Ted kicked a door, I say, please, will you on the front line of this government not act on behalf of this honorable veteran, caring and compassionate nursing professional, loyal husband and loving father AGAINST THE TOTALITARIAN REGIME WHICH EXTORTED HIS FALSE CONFESSION BY MEANS OF THREATS AGAINST HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN?
How much longer will you observe this obscene Kabuki ritual, bowing and smiling to the oily Medusa fronting for the premier money launderer of the Mediterranean?
Do you acknowledge what you have been told repeatedly: that the judge l'instruction Patricia Richet tore up letters to Ted written by his children right in front of Ted as she screamed "I know you are guilty!"?
I submit it's time for a resolute response on behalf of our outraged American brother TED MAHER.
It is time for a bipartisan, congressional resolution, a State Department protest, and the groundwork laid for a Presidential intercession on behalf of our fellow citizen whose every right under every convention has been trampled by an arrogant foreign power.
Is there at last any D.C. in decency?
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