Posted on 10/08/2001 6:21:17 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)
American Green Beret Vet TED MAHER Held HOSTAGE by Monaco for 629 Days (Thread 6) second thread 6"
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NEW FRENCH LAW REINFORCES INNOCENCE
By Verena Von Derschau
The Associated Press
Paris - (AP) - News photographers working in France will have to change their ways and criminal suspects will be given greater rights under a new law reinforcing the right to be presumed innocent.
The new law, which cleared the Senate in May and took effect Monday, imposes restrictions on the French news media - a measure that gained support following the 1997 death of Princess Diana.
Other sections make sweeping changes to French criminal law, allowing lawyers to be present during initial questioning of suspects and creating a new appeals court for violent crimes.
As part of its design to protect suspects from lengthy pre-trial detention, the law has created a new judicial position - "a judge for detention and liberty" - with the power to end or prolong temporary custody. Criminal suspects cannot be detained for more than four years without being brought to trial, the new law says.
The law was spearheaded by Justice Minister Elisabeth Guigou and passed by a large majority, but France's three main judges unions have criticized it, saying it will put a strain on the nation's already overburdened judiciary.
Strict limits will also be imposed on the media's handling of criminal suspects - a feature that has drawn sharp outcry from France's journalists.
The law prohibits photographers from taking pictures of suspects in handcuffs or of crime victims whose dignity could be violated.
Publications deemed to have violated the law could face a court imposed fine of up to $14,300.
French photographers have decried the law as restrictive and have said it puts them at a disadvantage to their foreign colleagues. Most photographers say they are unlikely to change the way they work, since the final decision to print a picture is made by editors.
Complaints about the conduct of French news media swelled after a series of bombings in France in the early 1990s and gained momentum with Diana's death.
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ROTFLMAO. No I haven't and until I can get the number of threads correct I do not think I will try.
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Armstrong, however, does not think Safra was offed because of his case. He brings up Russian money-laundering and what he describes as a coup to remove Yeltsin from office. According to Congressional testimony by a Republic deputy general counsel, Republic was the bank that tattled on the Bank of New Yorks involvement in Russian money-laundering in 1998. But Armstrong thinks Republic was playing both sides of the law. Republic instigated the Bank of New York deal, he says. That particular money-laundering deal was given to the Bank of New York, and that particular deal led directly to the Kremlin, which caused Yeltsin to resign.
How does all this connect with Armstrong? I would have been, through this civil case and the criminal case, the first person ever to get Safra on the stand, he asserts. I dont think he was killed specifically for anything particular in this case. But Safra had a reputation for being involved in a lot of money-launderingfor CIA stuff, for Iran-Contra...If I got him on the stand, some of this might have come out.
The Safra connection now qualifies as spilt milk. But Armstrong saves his strongest criticism for Republic Bank.
Republic, he says, was worried about losing its banking license in Japan. The Financial Supervisory Authority, Japans regulator, had begun cracking down on so-called tobashi deals. Throughout the 1990s, Japanese pension fund managers and corporates were underwater on their investment performance as the Nikkei fell. But according to Japanese accounting rules, the losses didnt have to be shown until realized. Instead of simply taking their lumps, Japanese managers scrambled after products they could swap for their crippled portfolios. Credit Suisse First Boston and a dozen other Wall Street firms answered their cries with complicated fixed-income instruments that carried short-term embedded optionsinstruments that were deemed acceptable at the time but that eventually led the FSA to accuse CSFB of illegal activities and yank its licence to do business in Japan. Cresvale International, a Hong Kong-based brokerage subsidiary of PEI (and the entity through which the Princeton Notes were sold), was among the firms doing these tobashi deals in Tokyo.
The funds for Armstrongs Japanese note-holders were supposed to be held in segregated accounts at Republic New York Securities. But federal authorities believe that when Armstrong started running into trouble, he dumped everything into one pool in order to conceal losses. According to documents, this was by William Rogers, head of the futures unit at the Republic broker-dealer, who oversaw Armstrongs accounts, at his clients behest. For his part, Armstrong says that Republic collapsed the accounts, perhaps to confuse or mislead Japanese regulators clamping down on activity it no longer wanted to tolerate.
The family sends Ted cards so he may send birthday cards to his kids and romantic ones to Heidi and also goofy ones for anyone. The family also sends videos and books (new ones bought just for him). Yesterday the family received the last package back from Monaco with a refusal note on it. (At least they sent it back this time instead of throwing them out in front of Ted.)
The family tells the Consulate and Sue Kelly and no one even comments back. Monaco will not give Ted anything the family sends. All he gets is letters as long as they don't have some statement that they don't want him to get.
The family has not heard from Ted's priest and is hoping that they still have that line open. Monaco is trying to close everything for Ted and is trying its hardest to break Ted down. Our government is doing nothing to help Ted in this situation. All we have is Free Republic, Tedmaher.com, the magazines and English papers.
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