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President Bush: Please Bring Ted Maher Home From Banana-Republic Monaco!

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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To: PhilDragoo
"Monaco has no shame, no tourists, no case, no clue."

Get caught-up in Monaco's *idea* of "justice" & you'll find the last word to be, "No Hope."

The place is hopeless spider's web; moreover, I dare say if Mr. Ted Maher had known Monaco was the "Land of Nos" beforehand?
They could've just as well have offered him the crown jewels to go there, and he'd have politely declined.
But he didn't have foresight.
Rather Ted Maher thought Monaco a nation of civilized peoples embracing law & order.
For that mistake he now sits in a jail cell rotting due to a lousy, flimsy frame designed to save this smallish, cheap prickapality face.

Nice thing to be known for, eh Monaco?
No nothing.

On behalf of Ted Maher...

-BTTT-

1,381 posted on 08/24/2002 11:36:27 AM PDT by Landru
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To: PhilDragoo
Bump for TED and Family!!

Via the BLOOD of Jesus,......More Grace and Mercy,......In Jesus' Precious Name, Amen!!!

1,382 posted on 08/24/2002 5:11:37 PM PDT by maestro
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To: maestro; All
Bump for TED and Family!!

Via the BLOOD of Jesus,......More Grace and Mercy,......In Jesus' Precious Name, Amen!!!

1,383 posted on 08/25/2002 3:04:18 PM PDT by maestro
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To: Landru; maestro; American Preservative; E.G.C.; 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub; Snow Bunny; ...
FREE TED MAHER NOW, MONACO

DAY 995 WRONGLY IMPRISONED WITHOUT TRIAL ON EXTORTED FALSE CONFESSION

Monaco prosecutor Daniel Serdet has two faces, reported two fires.

Monaco Prosecutor Daniel Serdet in the days following Safra's death told the press there were two fires.

Yet Monaco gestapo forced Ted to sign their prepared false confession of one fire.

Obviously the plotters' left hand didn't know what their right was doing.

And Daniel Slanderet has his head wedged so far he can't see the contradiction.

To further disintegrate Monaco's credibility, its fire report states "multiple sources of ignition"

The principals keep changing their stories:

Two years eight months three weeks five days after the fact Sonia now remembers telling Edmond and Vivian to open windows and breathe through wet towels and to lie on the floor.

[Of course she must've known the windows were bulletproof and the steel blinds locked down.]

[And she must've known no wet towels were found.]

[And she must've known Edmond was sitting upright.]

Is Sonia lying now, was she lying then, or is she not and always has been a chronic, habitual, inveterate liar?

Serdet being such a king sh!t must know Princess Grace Hospital tested Ted for drugs with negatif negatif negatif results--but being a psychopath, Serdet simply ignores facts.

Lily sent the security team away: so reported Israeli journalist Boaz Bismuth to DatelineNBC Sara James November 21, 2000, "Who Killed The Billionaire?"

As for no exterior video tape showing the intruders--they didn't have to be on the exterior:

Monaco authorities detained and questioned two men of Arab descent in the parking garage under La Belle Epoque--and released them.

Monaco can't explain what two men of Arab descent were doing in the parking garage at that ungodly hour,

--coincidentally just as the penthouse was torched to cover the murder of one of the world's wealthiest bankers--

--coincidentally after his wife/widow changed his will to her benefit--

--coincidentally after she sent his security team away--

--coincidentally after she paid the sole free and living witness $100,000--

--coincidentally after she changed the couple's citizenship to Monagasque to control the investigation--

Add that the sale of Republic was approved that day

That Sonia pencilled in Ted and Vivian at the last moment

That Monaco police conveniently lost their emergency call tapes for just that one day

And Monaco's pre-tend de-fenders never bothered to subpoena the cell phone records

--never bothered to question the contradictory and confused (but well-paid) Sonia--

--never bothered to protest that Ted was bound and bullied for three days straight to get the false confession--

It's a tale of evil powerful people destroying an American family to cover international crime--

MONACO, RELEASE TED MAHER--HE'S NOT YOUR PARACHUTE AND CAN'T SLOW YOUR DESCENT TO HELL

1,384 posted on 08/25/2002 4:27:40 PM PDT by PhilDragoo
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To: PhilDragoo
What a powerful message, Phil.

Only Ted has been questioned and accused of the fire that supposedly caused the deaths of Vivian Torrente and Mr. Safra.

Mrs. Safra is waging a huge fight against Ted to get him convicted and imprisoned. Why? Why did she pay off so many people? Why is she paying so much money to Monaco to keep Ted imprisoned? Why is her lawyers fighting and winning in the courts decisions on not allowing Sonia to testify, not allowing the hospital reports shown, not having the night security guard testify, not having the fire report or autopsy read at the trial? She has her lawyers at every court hearing that Ted goes to and makes sure the court does what she wants them to do.

WHAT IS SHE HIDING? The truth!! The truth is that she knows that Mr. Safra was shot, Vivian was strangled and the fire only was started after their deaths. There were no calls from Safra and Torrente to Sonia. If anything Sonia was talking to the ones that were doing the killing and told her when it was completed. In the autopsy, it states that Vivian was lying on the floor on her side and only the one side of her was blackened. In the same report, it states that all smoke was gone at 6:45 a.m. The last call, according to Sonia, the liar, was at 6:30 when Vivian Torrente told her she felt faint and there was smoke.

This cannot be true, Sonia. Maybe you should go back and give a new deposition. If only one side is blackened, it must mean that she was already laying on the floor when smoke got to her. SHE WAS STRANGLED, SONIA, and you know it. It had to happen before 6:30 a.m. to have her one side blackened in fifteen minutes. Why wasn't she telling you about the person strangling her? Why wasn't she screaming for help?

What about the blood on her that was Safra's? It is in the report. But also in the report (it has been stated in the European reports that Mr. Safra was shot) it states that Mr. Safra had no blood. Now miracle of miracles, how did this happen? Only in Monaco!!!!!! You know how, Sonia -let me tell you - they shot Mr. Safra and his blood spattered on Vivian.

Mrs. Safra, you know this too. You stated you helped clean up your husband. You all cleaned him up,covered his bullet wounds and then took a picture of him to show the world he was not shot. Easy, wasn't it?

Serdet, you have changed your statements several times just like Sonia HerkRATh. You have lied about Ted's wounds, you have lied about the fire - first it was in two places, then it was only the wastebasket (that radiated to the walls and became an 800 degree fire), and lied about the autopsies.
Yet you forced Ted to change his story by showing him his wife's picture on her passport and telling him what you would do to her and their family. Then when he signed the confession, you, the defense lawyers, and the courts made sure that Ted had to stick to that confession.

He still only admits to starting a fire in a wastebasket to get the alarms to go off. Nothing else. He knows nothing about the other fires or what happened after he was taken to the hospital. You wouldn't let him read about it or talk about it. Now you are telling the world that this little fire was the only one and it became an 800 degree fire.

In the autopsy it states that Vivian was strangled but since Ted already confessed to the fire, we are not investigating this. The blood on Vivian is from Mr. Safra but we are not investigating it because Ted already confessed to the fire.

Only in Monaco could a court be so corrupt. All the evidence from the hospital reports, fire reports, autopsy reports (we all know that Mr. Safra's has been falsified), and the court statements prove WITHOUT A DOUBT THAT TED MAHER IS INNOCENT.

It may not be today or tomorrow but in the future people will read a book about Monaco and their Scapegoat. They will read about the courts, the lawyers, Mrs. Safra, Sonia, Anthony, Marcos etc. and people will know the truth. We can prove it by the reports straight from Monaco.

MONACO CLEAN UP YOUR COURTS AND THE PEOPLE THAT RUN THEM. FREE TED MAHER - HE IS AN INNOCENT MAN FRAMED BY THE PEOPLE THAT WERE INVOLVED IN THE MURDER OF MR. SAFRA.
1,385 posted on 08/25/2002 6:29:37 PM PDT by jahw
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To: jahw; PhilDragoo
#1384 and #1385)......................Bump....................BTTT

Amen,.........More Grace and Mercy,..........In Jesus' Precious Name, Amen!!!

A.D.2002/5762

1,386 posted on 08/25/2002 9:51:30 PM PDT by maestro
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To: ForGod'sSake; PresidentBush; *Monaco:FreeTedMaher!; PatrioticAmerican; Liberty's Pen; ...
Dear FReepers and FRiends, please see posts #1339 - #1386, noting #1350, #1356, and, #1357. Thank you. The 1000th day! of Ted's captivity by Monaco is this Friday.

Monaco: Let Ted come home to his family NOW!

1,387 posted on 08/25/2002 10:35:48 PM PDT by American Preservative
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To: American Preservative
Bump!
1,388 posted on 08/25/2002 10:41:00 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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And #1345. : )

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#1370 - Best wishes Nita. : )

1,389 posted on 08/25/2002 10:43:33 PM PDT by American Preservative
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To: All
And #1345. : )

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#1370 - Best wishes Nita. : )

1,390 posted on 08/25/2002 10:46:04 PM PDT by American Preservative
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To: Michael Maher

1,391 posted on 08/25/2002 11:13:43 PM PDT by philman_36
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To: philman_36
free Ted bump
1,392 posted on 08/25/2002 11:19:43 PM PDT by amom
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To: PhilDragoo
"It's a tale of evil powerful people destroying an American family to cover international crime--"

When everything's been said & done, and one boils it right down?
That's all it is, too.
What a shameless, gutless act by this pompous, very "little," place.

On behalf of Ted Maher...

-BTTT-

1,393 posted on 08/26/2002 5:53:42 AM PDT by Landru
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To: Landru
Amen,........More Grace and Mercy,.........In Jesus' Precious Name, Amen!!!
1,394 posted on 08/26/2002 8:06:11 AM PDT by maestro
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To: Nita Nupress; Senator Pardek; MizSterious; OKCSubmariner; thinden; Askel5; Registered
I'll miss you Nitz. Best wishes in all that you do and thanks for your valuable contributions over the years.
1,395 posted on 08/26/2002 9:12:32 AM PDT by Fred Mertz
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To: jahw; maestro; American Preservative; Alamo-Girl; philman_36; amom; Landru; Fred Mertz
FREE TED MAHER NOW, MONACO

DAY 996 WRONGLY IMPRISONED WITHOUT TRIAL ON EXTORTED FALSE CONFESSION

Monaco suppresses a vast panoply of exculpatory evidence, rigs hearings, muzzles Ted.

The groundwork for the murder of Edmond Safra was laid in the earlier part of 1999, culminating in Show Time December 3.

Recall that two sources including the Russian Journal cite the chief prosecutor of Geneva saying Safra was killed for cooperating with the FBI regarding the laundering of $4.8 billion in IMF loans to Russia through Safra's Republic.

Monaco's chief inspector Olivier Jude is then put through the FBI National Academy ten-week course at Quantico:

The FBI Academy is located on the United States Marine Corps Base at Quantico, Virginia. The Facility, which opened in the Summer of 1972, is situated on 385 wooded acres of land providing the security, privacy, and safe environment necessary to carry out the diverse training and operations functions for which the FBI is responsible. The Drug Enforcement Administration also has their training academy at Quantico, Virginia.

The main training complex has three dormitory buildings, a dining hall, library, a classroom building, a Forensic Science Research and Training Center, a 1,000-seat Auditorium, a chapel, administrative offices, a large gymnasium and outside track, along with a fully equipped garage. In addition to the main complex, there is a mock city known as Hogans Alley, which consists of facades replicating a typical small town. The Hogans Alley facades are primarily used for FBI and DEA New Agent Training, while behind the facades are fully functioning classrooms, audiovisual facilities, storage areas, and administrative and maintenance offices. Just beyond Hogans Alley is a 1.1 mile pursuit/defensive driving training track. The extensive firearms training provided to all FBI/DEA and other law enforcement officers is conducted at the indoor firing range, the eight outdoor firing ranges, four skeet ranges, or the 200-yard rifle range.

The FBI Academy is a secured facility and, as such, is not open to the public for tours.

Monaco Chief Inspector Olivier Jude later figures prominently in the seizing, binding, sleep-deprivation and threat-induced coercion of Ted's signature on the police-prepared French-language false confession.

Monaco Chief Inspector Olivier Jude is also complicit in the kidnapping of U.S. citizens Heidi Maher (Ted's wife) and Heidi's brother Todd Wustrau, and the theft of their U.S. passports--in the absence of any legitimate investigation and for the sole purpose of threatening Ted into signing.

Perhaps Jude learned at the academy about planting evidence: Monaco police "found" a bottle of lidocaine--which had been ordered by Sonia Casiano-Herkrath, Lily's nursing supervisor whom she paid $100,000 in "confidentiality fee". Jude did not check the bottle for prints. But the pre-tend de-fenders do not pursue this breech of procedure.

Ted had as patients the twins of Harry and Laura Slatkin. (Laura runs the scented candle business of interior decorator Howard Slatkin, her husband's brother and Lily's favorite designer per Dominick Dunne, "Mystery and Death in Monaco", Vanity Fair, December 2000.) The Slatkins leave an expensive camera which Ted returns and the Slatkins then recommend Ted to Lily for hiring.

Though Howard denies working on the penthouse renovation in 1999, it can't be denied that his and Laura's candles were there (ads say he makes them and names them for clients). And the decorating is noted in the fire report as having prevented any manual opening of the steel roller blinds.

Renovations are complete July 1, 1999, the day the burglar alarm is disconnected per the head of the firm Monaco Securite. No one but the Safra's could have ordered this, and Edmond was deathly afraid, leaving Lily as the likely one, but it could be cleared up if Ted had any real defense attorneys to investigate.

Ted is hired in August. He was planning on going back to his wife and children and job at Columbia Presbyterian in January (making Monaco Chief Prosecutor Daniel Slanderet's fraud even more preposterous). He was pencilled into the fatal shift at the last minute by Lily's paid agent Sonia.

A trap door was installed from the nurses' room to the attic where the new separate air handling equipment was installed. Hence Edmond "asphyxiated" while Lily did not.

She had been busy changing his will to her benefit--for which Edmond's brothers and sisters lawyered up and fought her--unsuccessfully it seems, as all the Monaco rulings seem to have gone her way. My, how lucky.

(As lucky as having her second husband shoot himself TWICE IN THE HEART to leave her two hundred ten million.)

Lily sent the security away.

Lily changed their citizenship to Monagasque to make Monaco in charge.

Monaco's fire report notes a sudden conflagration at 6:00 a.m.--an hour after Ted was rushed to the hospital.

Monaco police find and question--but release--two men of Arab descent in the parking garage below the penthouse.

Henry Kissinger said Safra's death was "a cruel and vindictive act".

And so is Monaco's frame-up of Ted Maher to cover their own asses.

MONACO, YOU LAUNDER, KIDNAP, MURDER, AND LIE: FULL-SERVICE BANANA REPUBLIC

1,396 posted on 08/26/2002 10:16:18 AM PDT by PhilDragoo
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To: PhilDragoo
Bump!
1,397 posted on 08/26/2002 11:11:15 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: American Preservative
Although every day is sad that they keep "our" Teddy, Friday is especially going to be mournful. May God give peace to him, his family, and his friends. May his sweet little wife, his diligent brother, and his wonderful mama be fortified with the strength to carry on the fight. And may God give the wisdom needed to Bring Ted Maher Home! Amen.
1,398 posted on 08/26/2002 1:34:12 PM PDT by JudyB1938
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To: JudyB1938
Amen,........More Grace and Mercy,.........In Jesus' Precious Name, Amen!!!
1,399 posted on 08/26/2002 3:37:59 PM PDT by maestro
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To: American Preservative
Your#1387).....................BTTT

Amen,........More Grace and Mercy,.........In Jesus' Precious Name, Amen!!!

1,400 posted on 08/27/2002 4:23:07 AM PDT by maestro
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