Subject: TED MAHER--INNOCENT AMERICAN GREEN BERET VETERAN WRONGLY HELD BY MONACO 766 DAYS WITHOUT TRIAL--IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT
Dear Congresswoman Kelly: Please redouble your efforts on behalf of TED MAHER innocent American Green Beret veteran wrongly held by Monaco 766 DAYS WITHOUT TRIAL -- IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT.
Your writing Prince Rainier III (with then-House International Relations Committee Chairman Ben Gilman) was a much-needed prod. The very-tardy response of Monaco director of juridical services Patrice Davost was a lie. As you well know, TED MAHER was forced into four-point restraint, deprived of sleep and beaten for three days, his wife kidnapped and her passport stolen, and vile threats made on her and their three children. Thus did Monaco extort Ted's signature on their prepared false confession--in French, which he does not read, write or speak.
Your letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell of November 13, 2001 was a good first effort in that direction which should be followed up. Now-chairman of HIRC Henry Hyde should be notified of Ted's plight; his innate sense of justice will make him a powerful advocate on Ted's behalf.
Please initiate entreaties to President Bush to intervene on Ted's behalf, just as the intervention of then-President Clinton with Russian President Vladimir Putin helped free Ed Pope.
The H. Con. Res. 444-106 of Rep. John Peterson on behalf of Ed Pope might serve as an outline for a similar effort on behalf of Ted Maher.
There is a further outrage in this already outrageous miscarriage of justice, and that is the sudden, unexplained departure of investigating magistrate (judge d'instruction) Patricia Richet. This must not be allowed as an excuse for Monaco to keep our innocent fellow American Ted Maher yet another two years while it continues its charade of "investigating".
Please waste no time in pursuing all avenues to mobilize our government to come to the aid of one our own. This act of state-sponsored terror is vile and cowardly and demands setting right.
Thank you for your efforts on behalf of TED MAHER
Phil Dragoo
310 Airport Road #311
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87507
Phone/Fax 505-473-0235
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