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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(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.")
If it does not appear, he will be emailed. His address is at the bottom of his column MStarr@nypost.com. He certainly has responded promptly and pleasantly--now to suit action to word.
Starr had written "charged with murdering" etcetera which is not true. The charge is arson causing the death of two persons. This, too, is not true, as Ted did not set the penthouse on fire; that was done an hour after he was in the hospital. His "fire" was a candle in a wastebasket held up to the smoke detector to summon help when two masked intruders attacked, and the burglar alarm had been disconnected and the police were not responding to emergency calls. Funny how that burglar alarm got disconnected (July 1, 1999) and the police simply lost the tapes of emergency calls for the 3d of December, 1999.
We'll be listening to the excellent Unspun hosted by AnnaZ and Mercuria Thursday night on Radio Free Republic to hear their interview with Heidi Maher.
And we'll be faxing, and that's a natural fact.
Just found these at - monaco.gouv.mc/PortGb (Click Events)
PARADE - Monday 31st December - 12 pm, Place du Palais :
Marching Band Parade by the Wildcats from New Hampshire University.
1 JANVIER PARADE - Tuesday 1st January - 12 pm, Place du Palais :
Marching Band Parade by the Coyotes from South Dakota University.
Uck and sigh.
Prince Rainier: FREE AMERICAN TED MAHER NOW! Hostage in Monaco for 2+ years!
There has to be a reason why they're ignoring Ted's plight & our requests.
We're entitled to hear precisely what their line of reasoning is for their behavior or lack thereof, too.
...this isn't the time for Clintigulan-style silence out of our government, folks.
-BTTT-
Amen,...........More Grace and Mercy,.............In Jesus' Precious Name, Amen!!!
2002 in Maonaco
Michael
Thank you so very much for your prompt and gracious correction appearing today:
This just in . . . Last Wednesday I incorrectly wrote that Ted Maher stands accused of murder in the Edmond Safra case. What I should have said is that Maher has been charged with "arson resulting in the death of two persons." That's a big difference.
In this single act, you have risen head and shoulders above a terra cotta army of columnists serving some other warlord than truth.
Since learning of the plight of Ted Maher, I have researched its anomalies all possible. I am convinced the multiple sources of ignition described in the official fire report--which is a free and easy download at http://www.TedMaher.com --were the work of those two intruders mentioned in the first press reports.
In fact, the fire report mentions in three places a "sudden conflagration at 6 a.m."--an hour after Ted had been rushed to the hospital.
I am likewise sure that Ted put a burning candle in a wastebasket and held this concentrated heat source under a smoke detector to activate the fire alarm and summon firefighters when police failed to respond to emergency calls. You see, this is why it is so damning to them that they have their emergency call tapes for the 2d and the 4th--but not for the 3d. And why did not the intruders activate the burglar alarm? Because-- according to the head of Monaco Securite in his deposition in the fire report-- it was disconnected July 1, 1999.
You may recall --and can check the transcript, for it's there-- that Dominick Dunne remarked to Larry King that Ted's confession was "got out of him". And therein lies a dark, dark tale.
But, now, the best of New Years to you, and thank you for being a truthful voice about Ted Maher.
Phil Dragoo
Your #666..........................'Monaco-666'.
FREE TED MAHER !!!
Amen,.............More Grace and Mercy,.............In Jesus' Precious Name, Amen!!!
Your #666...........................'Monaco-666'.
...about their Clintigulan behavior concerning U.S. military veteran & citizen Ted Maher.
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Subject: TED MAHER, INNOCENT AMERICAN HELD BY MONACO 759 DAYS WITHOUT TRIAL
Dear President Bush:
TED MAHER, an innocent American and honorable Green Beret veteran, has been wrongly held by Monaco for 759 days without trial, on a false confession extorted under extreme duress, threats on his wife and children, and a panoply of suppressed exculpatory evidence.
PLEASE CONTACT U.S. REPRESENTATIVE SUE KELLY (R-NY) Ted's congresswoman who has written Secretary of State Colin Powell (November 13, 2001) on Ted's behalf.
TED HAS BEEN KEPT FROM HIS WIFE AND THREE YOUNG CHILDREN for the third Christmas in a row--as a scapegoat, innocent of all charges.
MONACO EVEN STOLE TED'S WIFE'S U.S. PASSPORT AND KIDNAPPED HER in its extortion of Ted's false confession--in French, which he does not read, write or speak. Ted is muzzled by Monaco, forbidden mail and all but one brief heavily-monitored phone call A WEEK.
YOUR INTERCESSION WILL RIGHT A GREAT WRONG AND FREE AN AMERICAN VET wrongly held in a foreign prison as a pawn in the suspicious death of Edmond Safra, billionaire banker who cooperated with the FBI regarding the laundering through his Republic Bank of $4.8 billion in IMF loans to Russia--The Geneva chief prosecutor says this is why he was killed; and Henry Kissinger called his death "a vindictive act."
THANK YOU FOR YOUR FURTHER EFFORTS ON BEHALF OF VICTIMS OF FOREIGN TERRORISM--for this two year nightmare is nothing less for Ted and his family--who have had to sell their house, and car, and belongings, and now struggle to survive.
God Bless You, and God Bless America
Phil Dragoo
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Amen,.........More Grace and Mercy,........In Jesus' Precious Name, Amen!!!
There is 'evil' influence in Ted's sufferings.
We ask for, "Infinite Justice", please!
Yes, a speedy trial is even mentioned in the law of Monaco, yet it is herein shown to be a bit of puffery. Like Monaco's pretension to being so safe.
Monaco has a very efficient--and very expensive--anti-terror unit, yet at no time during the three hours from the first alarm until the "discovery" of the bodies was it even summoned. Monaco claims its police dared not enter the penthouse for fear of the reported intruders--yet it obviously did not wish to interrupt the work of these intruders, else it would have summoned its special squad.
So much inaction by police and fire would not come cheaply--who could afford the bribes involved?
Monaco now has made a vague promise of "a trial in the spring"--but this is not the first such promise and it's an easy bet it won't be the last delay.
If it's such a slam-dunk case against the tiresome "lone nut", why not a quick trial to save the coin of the realm?
We credit Monaco's pretense to proper jurisprudence while laundering billions just as much as America in the seventies credited Nixon's "I am not a crook" or the gendarme's "I am shocked, shocked" from Casablanca.
Which is to say, not at all.
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