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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(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.")
Monaco will try to muzzle Griffith as well as Ted,
It will try to exclude the experts who would destroy the coverup.
Increased media exposure, world-class lawyering, congressional attention--all will aid Ted.
This Kafkaesque police state threatened the wife and children of an innocent American,
--took three days of beat-down to make a case that three years later won't stand up to a trial--
--would be destroyed by three hours of legitimate evidence and testimony.
Monaco knows this, and will try a Stalinesque show trial--
--but Ted has the truth on his side, merely awaiting a forum.
PRINCESS GRACE AWARDS GALA ~ OCTOBER 22, 2002 ~ NEW YORK CITY
Dear Maher family, FYI - Prince Albert will be in town October 22.
Dear NY FReepers whom I have pinged, if you don't know the plight of American Ted Maher, there is much info here if you care to peruse.
Ted is an American, Green Beret veteran, professional neonatal nurse, husband, father of 3 young children, son, and brother, who is being held hostage by Monaco. It has been nearly 3 years that Ted has been denied his freedom and family!
If, after reading about what Monaco has done to Ted and his family, you are moved by this injustice, perhaps some of you New York FReepers might consider "FReeper greeting" Prince Albert when he comes to the Waldorf-Astoria on Tuesday, October 22 for the Princess Grace Awards.
Prince Albert will be freely partying in New York, while New Yorker Ted Maher will most likely be spending another night confined in a prison cell in Monaco dreaming of his family and home in New York.
MONACO: LET TED COME HOME NOW!
How 'bout these for signs if you decide to have a FReepin' party in front of the hotel -
MONACO IS GRACELESS! FREE TED MAHER!
MONACO'S "ROYAL TREATMENT" OF AMERICANS - WWW.TEDMAHER.COM
AN AMERICAN IN MONACO - TED MAHER - HOSTAGE DAY 1,___!
MONACO GETS THE NY RASPBERRY AWARD!
MONACO: HOSTAGE-TAKING ISN'T GOOD FOR TOURISM! FREE AMERICAN TED MAHER NOW!
PRINCESS GRACE WOULD BE ASHAMED! MONACO: FREE AMERICAN TED MAHER NOW!
IF PRINCE ALBERT TRULY (HEART) NY, LET AMERICAN TED MAHER COME HOME!
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NY FReepers - Mrs Maher, Michael Maher; Mimibru and jahw are Ted's family and fellow FReepers. If you have any questions, please direct them to them. Thanks.
Ted fought for America's freedom as a Green Beret. Please help (if you can) American Ted Maher regain his freedom now.
Thank you NY FReepers. : )
MONACO, FREE TED MAHER NOW!!!!!!!
Amen,.....More Grace and Mercy,.......In Jesus' Precious Name, Amen!!!
Here is the first bulletin from jahw:
Also an hour after Ted was in hospital, a fireman saw the fire in the wastebasket and he was going to go and put it out (it was minor) and the police would not let him. This proves that Ted's fire did not burn the place down.
Here is the second bulletin from jahw:
We just learned today that it has been said that Mr. Safra had been cremated and that is why the closed casket and the brothers not allowed at the funeral.
Obviously that fireman must be deposed at trial.
And we know why the Black Widow had Edmond cremated.
Monaco director of juridical services Patrice Davost thinks he can lead Griffith on with assurances he'll be allowed to participate in Ted's defense--then exclude him as per the appellate proceedings.
It's certain that Monaco doesn't want Griffith's fire expert to tear apart the official coverup and expose the multiple sources of ignition.
Monaco cannot even explain how the fire report states firemen were not able to break through the bulletproof glass--but the videotape on Dateline NBC for November 21, 2000, "Who Killed The Billionaire?" shows a hole in the glass, and the fire report contradicts itself with a description by the investigators of a hole of 20cm (8in) in diameter. After the intruders set the multiple points of ignition, they ventilated the blaze with a hole in the glass--but how. Contemporary European sites spoke of a missile fired from the Hermitage, the hotel across Avenue d'Ostende from La Belle Epoque.
Just in
jahw reports:
Ted recently saved a man in prison by giving him mouth to mouth. He has a reaction to a pill. He called the guards and they would not come. Ted kept calling and calling and they would not respond. After about 30 minutes they came and then rushed the man to the hospital. Ted saved his life. The man is now back in prison and is with Ted.
More to come on this.
As Prince Albert will discover, this isn't going away.
Amen,.....More Grace and Mercy,.......In Jesus' Precious Name, Amen!!!
Why the US doesn't release him by them selfs?
Amen,.....More Grace and Mercy,.......In Jesus' Precious Name, Amen!!!
Though Monaco seeks to make its law even more draconian,
it has to deal with existing law--
which it has repeatedly broken in Ted's case.
The false confession Monaco police spent three days beating out of Ted
(in conjunction with rat-bastard threats on his wife and children)
and the three years Monaco has shamefully delayed trial
(a de facto admission it has no case)
would be thrown out of (a legitimate) court in a three hour trial.
Monaco is a police state run by lying swine employing gestapo-wannabes and kangaroos in robes with gavels.
Send out the clowns to get Ted a cab--he's innocent, Prince Bozo, as you well know.
-BTTT-
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