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.")
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Per capita GDP: Estimated at $25,000.
Agriculture: None.
Industry: Types -- tourism, construction, chemicals, food products, plastics, precision instruments, cosmetics, ceramics.
Trade: Imports -- about $415,272. Exports -- about $415,272.
Currency: Monaco used the French franc as its currency until January 1999, when Monaco switched to the Euro with others of the European Union. As in the past, special Monegasque coins will continue to circulate
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(Monaco's "funny" "scents of humor" to it's clientele?)
Judging by the six-page letter to Sue Kelly from Monaco director of juridical affairs Patrice Davost, it is accurate to say Monaco exports compost, the overflowing effluent from the jewelled sewage pit of the cote d'azur.
Yesterday at FoxNews.com:
State Department Investigates Jailing of Christian Man in China
WASHINGTON — President Bush has asked the State Department to look into reports that the Chinese government has jailed a Hong Kong man for bringing Bibles to Christians in China.
The president is "deeply concerned" about the report, said State Department spokesman Richard Boucher, who added that diplomats in Beijing and Washington brought the issue to Bush's attention after the man's family notified the security bureau of his status.
The State Department has registered its concerns with the Chinese Embassy in Washington as well as with Chinese authorities in Beijing, Boucher said.
Hey, President Bush and State Department:
What's the deal?
What about Ted Maher?!??
Subject: TED MAHER: INNOCENT AMERICAN WRONGLY HELD BY MONACO 767 DAYS WITHOUT TRIAL
Dear President Bush:
While we read of your concern over a Hong Kong man held by China over importing Bibles, we are concerned you haven't yet protested Monaco holding our innocent American Green Beret veteran TED MAHER 767 days without trial, incommunicado on an extorted false confession.
Please contact Ted's congresswoman REP. SUE W. KELLY (R-19-NY) at 202-225-5441 for the full details of this outrage committed against an innocent American citizen by an autocratic foreign power. Congresswoman Kelly has written Prince Rainier III on Ted's behalf in concert with REP. BEN GILMAN (R-20-NY) then-chairman of the House Committee on International Relations. Congresswoman Kelly has written SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN POWELL (November 13, 2001) who has not deigned to reply.
Well and good that the President of the United States call to account the atheistic dictatorship about to execute a Hong Kong Christian, but please protest the TWO-YEAR-AND-COUNTING OUTRAGE of Monaco's vile false imprisonment of our fellow American TED MAHER.
Monaco threw Ted into four-point restraint and deprived him of sleep for three days, beating and threatening him in order to extort his signature on their prepared false confession in French which he does not read, write or speak.
Monaco kidnapped Ted's wife, stole her passport, threatened to strip search and torture her, threatened her with indefinite detainment, and with secretly-taken photos of the couple's three young children--as well as secretly-taped recordings of the children's voices--this police state threatened the lives of three American children.
This American family have lost their child's father, their home and car, and still their nightmare continues.
Mr. President, this attack on an American family must not stand.
God Bless You and God Bless America
Phil Dragoo
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That this POTUS has dropped everything (apparently/allegedly) to tend to the matter of the bible guy held in the PRC; all the while seemingly ignoring Ted's predicament?
Doesn't bode well for my opin of this man's administration.
I'm NOT saying he HAS to do anything; however, IF he doesn't?
He must RESPOND to our pleas one way or the other with something resembling a valid reason?
...silence we have plenty of already, concerning this man's fate; courtesy of Monaco.
-BTTT-
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