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.")
-BTTT-
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!!!
Monaco's presiding judge has said he will bar Michael Griffith from representing Ted.
This despite Article 286 of the Monegasque Code of Criminal Procedure.
The State Department case officer confirms that this article gives Ted Maher the right to choose his lawyer.
I have often said Monaco would seek to bar Michael Griffith because he is not a Monaco resident or Monagasque attorney.
Monaco residents are subject to all the pressures of a police state--this after corresponding with a goodly number thereof.
Monagasque attorneys practice at the pleasure of the Prince.
Ted's Monagasque attorneys are paid agents of the government, not advocates for their client.
This I stipulate on fact and belief: no one can point to a single gain for their client in three years.
Au contraire, in three years they have forced Ted to adhere to the false confession and refused to investigate exculpatory evidence.
Despite this latest outrage, Monaco shall not prevent Ted's lawfully selecting the lawyer of his own choosing.
The State Department has established methods of handling such obstacles.
The Congressional committees are looking into matters.
And there is the exposure of its Stalinesque tactics that the putzipality fears most.
Monaco would beat a dog to confess he's a cat--but ultimate truth is not altered--
Only Monaco's criminal and racketeering influenced organization is revealed.
Amen,........More Grace and Mercy,..........In Jesus' Precious Name, Amen!!!
Monaco,....PLEASE,.......Let TED MAHER come home safely and in good health to HIS FAMILY and COUNTRY.......
At this late 11th hour you're saying Ted's been denied representation by Griffith??
What the hell's going on over there anyway, this is beyond outrageous.
The US gov must get involved at this point, I'd have to say.
Even if there'd once been some pretense of a trial (up to this point), we can forget it as that too has now been removed.
The thing's degraded into a blantantly bad joke.
On behalf of Ted Maher.
...-BTTT-
I asked a friend who had done a case in Monaco the year before they snatched Ted to comment on the latest outrage.
He replied:
Monaco can do what it wants because it's a police state--but you knew that.
In America there is the law and the tiered court system.
In Monaco there is the presiding judge telling Ted and Manasse and Griffith one week that Griffith can appear--
And the next week saying no no no, he is not fluent in French.
Monaco is fluent in bullshit--
It will make an ugly picture in Vanity Fair.
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!!!
So tonight Prince Albert of Monaco will be freely partying in New York - post #1644.
Ted should be home in New York with his family and friends. Monaco: Let American Ted Maher come home!
-BTTT-
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!!!
And the news magazines will tell it.
An American veteran and neonatal nurse framed by a foreign government.
An American family torn apart by the unlawful detention of the father, and the kidnapping of the mother.
A story of greed to make Enron look like the ice cream truck.
A tale of three years of fascist isolation to make even the bleaters about X-Ray shut up, sit up and listen.
The black widow whose second husband shot himself TWICE IN THE HEART to leave her $210 million--
Arranged her fourth husband's will to get three billion.
No wonder it resonates with producers from Nightline to Oprah--
While the boring black hole of the Beltway business drives viewers mad with its lack of content--
And who at this late date, five years after Diana's death, cares about her bodyguard having her letters?
It's too soon to watch the video of the bombing of Baghdad--
But here's an episode of CSI Monte Carlo to fascinate.
And the recurring question, what good is a State Department which lets North Korea build nukes and Monaco hold Americans?
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!!!
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