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President Bush: Please Bring Ted Maher Home From Banana-Republic Monaco!

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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(You can write in English on the French page and scroll down to read. Please note they have a tendency to delete messages regarding Ted - not "fairytale-correct.")


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To: PhilDragoo
Buuuump!
1,481 posted on 09/07/2002 9:06:57 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: All
Michael Griffith left last night to head for a conference in London then onto Monaco to see Ted. Ted will be updated on the case. He will be back in a couple weeks. I will update you all upon his return.

Heidi

1,482 posted on 09/08/2002 5:50:54 AM PDT by Mrs Maher
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To: Mrs Maher
Monaco,....PLEASE,.......Let TED MAHER come home safely and in good health to HIS FAMILY and COUNTRY.......

Amen,........More Grace and Mercy,..........In Jesus' Precious Name, Amen!!!

1,483 posted on 09/08/2002 12:58:51 PM PDT by maestro
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To: PhilDragoo
"MONACO, RELEASING TED BEFORE TRIAL PREVENTS THE RELEASE OF PANDORA'S FILE CABINET"

Indeed it would.

Will be interesting to see just how desperate *Monoco* & her flying monkee prosecutor(s) are to make themselves look stupid, by taking this shakey case to court?

On behalf of Ted Maher...

-BTTT-

1,484 posted on 09/08/2002 1:14:14 PM PDT by Landru
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To: ForGod'sSake; *Monaco:FreeTedMaher!; PatrioticAmerican; Liberty's Pen; MAD-AS-HELL; ...
Dear FReepers and FRiends, please see posts #1479, #1482, #1483, and #1480. Thank you.

Thank you for the update Mrs. Maher.

MONACO: LET TED COME HOME TO HIS FAMILY NOW!

(If you would like to be added or removed from my ping list, please let me know. FReep-mail is best.)

1,485 posted on 09/08/2002 3:58:23 PM PDT by American Preservative
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To: American Preservative
I was just reading in this month's Vanity Fair that Dominick Dunne wants to cover this trial. Has he intimated anything regarding his perspective on Mr. Maher's guilt or innocence? (The article was rather vague.)
1,486 posted on 09/08/2002 4:31:15 PM PDT by AnnaZ
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To: American Preservative
FREE TED MAHER NOW!
1,487 posted on 09/08/2002 5:04:32 PM PDT by mafree
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To: E.G.C.; Alamo-Girl; Mrs Maher; maestro; Landru; American Preservative; AnnaZ; Mercuria; ...
FREE TED MAHER NOW, MONACO

DAY 1,009 WRONGLY IMPRISONED WITHOUT TRIAL ON EXTORTED FALSE CONFESSION

Dominick Dunne will cover Ted's trial in Monaco

Dunne to King re Safra-Maher June 26, 2001 (fourteen and a half months ago):

KING: You're on a thing now with this Safra case, right?

DUNNE: Yes.

KING: He died of asphyxiation in a fire, right?

DUNNE: In a penthouse in Monte Carlo. This is an amazing story. I mean, there's -- I have no solution to this. I don't know. I don't know what...

KING: He as murdered?

DUNNE: He was -- well, he -- died by asphyxiation. He couldn't get out. He didn't wish to come out of that bathroom. It's a really fascinating story. He was one of the richest men in the world. He had become a citizen of Monaco the day before this happened. He was a man who had 12 guards trained by the Mossad with him at all time, and not one of them was on duty that night.

He had this -- he had a lot of nurses, and he had this one nurse on duty who lit the fire this night -- very confusing thing. A toilet paper fire that was lit by a scented candle, and he held it up to the fire alarm system, because he said that there were two intruders there, and he wanted to attract attention. That guy is called Ted Maher, from Stormville, New York, an American, is in jail now in Monaco, and he's been there for 18, 19 months. No date for a trial has been set. I happen not to believe that he is the sole person response for this. There's just too many strange things.

KING: You think he's involved, but not solely involved.

DUNNE: He certainly admits to having lit the fire. And -- but the story that he -- you've got to remember that they got the confession out of him. He was wounded. Whether he wounded himself or was wounded is a moot point. And he signed the confession in a language he didn't speak. They had his wife's passport and said they wouldn't let her out of Monaco to get back to the kids. It was a very strange thing.

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Dunne to King re Safra-Maher July 24, 2002 (one year after the above interview):

KING: What's the latest on the Safra case?

DUNNE: Well, that's very interesting on the Safra case. You know there's an American lawyer on that case called Michael Griffith. Michael Griffith got famous in the Billy Hayes story, the boy that they made the movie about, "Midnight Express."

KING: Yes.

DUNNE: And he is gathering a bunch of expert witnesses, tops in their field, and the primary one at the moment is Michael Badden (ph), the former medical...

KING: Medical examiner.

DUNNE: Yes, medical examiner from New York, whom I got to know during the O.J. Simpson trial. That's my clock going off, Larry, sorry. And he -- there is something explosive that is going to come out soon. You know...

KING: Really?

DUNNE: Yes because the autopsy report on Edmond Safra and on the nurse who died with him, who was called Vivian Torrente -- she's from New Jersey -- and the autopsy report has been in French only and now, there's a translation of it and Michael Badden (ph) is going over it. And I think there's something very explosive -- which I am not at liberty to say at this moment, but I think it's going to change the little bit of the thinking on this case.

You know I still am so -- you know me. I'm a victim's advocate, but this is the time I am absolutely fighting every month for Ted Maher...

KING: Yes.

DUNNE: ... this -- the American nurse, the lowest ranking nurse in the -- who wasn't even supposed to be on duty that night -- and he's spent two-and-a-half years in the Monte Carlo prison, the Monaco Prison. And I think this guy's getting a raw deal and I think that Michael Griffith is going to shake up things in Monaco.

DOMINICK DUNNE: "I am absolutely fighting every month for Ted Maher."

"Michael Griffith is going to shake up things in Monaco"

1,488 posted on 09/08/2002 5:10:36 PM PDT by PhilDragoo
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To: PhilDragoo
Thank you so much for that info and PRAISE GOD!!!
 
Dunne is the kind of person who can ratchet up the attention, something Mr. Maher needs right now.
 
Again, praise God. Finally, someone big.

1,489 posted on 09/08/2002 5:33:07 PM PDT by AnnaZ
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To: AnnaZ
And here is the link for the second of the two excerpts of Dunne-King interviews re Safra-Maher:

CNN LARRY KING LIVE Interview with Dominick Dunne Aired July 24, 2002 - 21:00 ET

1,490 posted on 09/08/2002 5:43:12 PM PDT by PhilDragoo
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To: American Preservative
Thanks so very much for the ping.

Pray pray pray
1,491 posted on 09/08/2002 7:58:14 PM PDT by amom
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To: PhilDragoo
Bump!
1,492 posted on 09/08/2002 8:10:41 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: PhilDragoo
MONACO, FREE TED MAHER NOW!!!!!
1,493 posted on 09/09/2002 3:15:26 AM PDT by E.G.C.
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To: American Preservative
MONACO, FREE TED MAHER NOW!!!!!
1,494 posted on 09/09/2002 3:17:08 AM PDT by E.G.C.
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To: PhilDragoo
"DOMINICK DUNNE: 'I am absolutely fighting every month for Ted Maher.'"
"'Michael Griffith is going to shake up things in Monaco'"

Something we can finally focus our prayers on.

On behalf of Ted Maher...

-BTTT-

1,495 posted on 09/09/2002 6:39:09 AM PDT by Landru
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To: Landru
Monaco,....PLEASE,.......Let TED MAHER come home safely and in good health to HIS FAMILY and COUNTRY.......

Amen,........More Grace and Mercy,..........In Jesus' Precious Name, Amen!!!

1,496 posted on 09/09/2002 6:52:44 AM PDT by maestro
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To: AnnaZ; amom; Alamo-Girl; E.G.C.; Landru; maestro; American Preservative
FREE TED MAHER NOW, MONACO

DAY 1,010 WRONGLY IMPRISONED WITHOUT TRIAL ON EXTORTED FALSE CONFESSION

Monaco thinks it can conceal its guilt. So did Skakel.

Arrogantly, Monaco prosecutor slandered Ted Maher with lies.

Outrageously, Monaco judge Patricia Richet tore up his children's letters.

Insufferably, Monaco director of juridical services Patrice Davost lied to Ted's congresswoman Sue Kelly.

RICO-like, the Prince, who snuffed a judge's investigation which touched Princess Stephanie, turns a blind eye to Ted's wrongful imprisonment.

Unbelievably, Lily's second husband shot himself twice in the heart to leave her $210 million in 1976 in Brazil, and her fourth husband "asphyxiates" to leave her billions.

Appallingly, the Monaco police kidnapped Heidi and stole her passport and threatened her and the couple's children.

Happily, Dominick Dunne is going to deal with the Safra-Maher case as he did with the Moxley-Skakel case.

Which is to say, the powerful who prey on the innocent will be brought to justice.

It's shooting ducks in a barrel for Inspector Olivier Jude (FBI National Academy graduate) to fool the leftist press--

Not so easily is Dr. Michael Baden, noted forensic authority and DNA expert, convinced that sh!t is Shinola.

While Donald Manasse may be deferential to his master Rainier, Michael Griffith serves a higher master: justice.

And masterfully, Dunne will illuminate it all, in the pages of Vanity Fair, the national interviews with Larry King, and perhaps a book.

It has gone all Monaco's way for way too long.

Ted's Dream Team is ready to rumble.

MONACO, YOUR SAFRA-MAHER COVERUP WILL COME UNDONE--

RELEASE TED NOW: DON'T WALK, RUN!

1,497 posted on 09/09/2002 11:28:23 AM PDT by PhilDragoo
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To: PhilDragoo
MONACO, FREE TED MAHER NOW!!!!!
1,498 posted on 09/09/2002 11:47:46 AM PDT by E.G.C.
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To: PhilDragoo
Bump!
1,499 posted on 09/09/2002 11:50:35 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: PhilDragoo
BUMP!
1,500 posted on 09/09/2002 1:00:09 PM PDT by TigersEye
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