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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How did Edmond's blood spatter Vivian?
For that matter, how did Lily's second husband Alfredo "Freddy" Monteverde shoot himself twice in the heart?
Edmond's blood spattered Vivian's bra, panties and hair barrette.
Is this a Foster's Beer commercial?
Is "asphyxiation" Monaco-ese for "badda-bing, badda-boom, y'moe-ron"?
Perhaps Vivian strangled herself--
Ask Monaco prosecutor Daniel Serdet--
Serdet's thesis is, "When you remove fact, whatever remains is our story--and we're sticking to it."
So, Serdet says Ted was using drugs--Princess Grace Memorial tested Ted with results: negatif negatif negatif.
Remove that fact--facts are not allowed in Monaco.
The world is flat, the sun revolves around the judge d'instruction Patricia Richet who physically attacked the current judge Hullin--
After a week in hospital, Hullin returns--hopefully cured of any respect for fact.
So, after Vivian strangled herself, and before Edmond was asphyxiated, he simply sweat blood at his predicament, and soiled Vivian's undergarments.
Is it any wonder that Mike Maher and I each have a UK cite from a reputable source quoting the Geneva chief prosecutor:
Safra was killed for cooperating with the FBI regarding the laundering of $4.8 billion in IMF loans to Russia through Republic.
And that Lucy Komisar now reports he says he didn't say it.
People who attempt to do the right thing seem to wind up "asphyxiated" or beaten and hospitalized or imprisoned for three years.
The New York Post is represented by Howard Rubinstein who represents Lily.
Lily's attorney is Stanley Arkin who successfully defended Natasha Kagalovsky in the Bank of New York (BONY) money laundering case.
Natasha's husband was Konstantin Kagalovsky of Russia's huge Menatep Bank.
Lily, back all the twistings and turnings, is Russian, according to NYP's Brad Hunter ("A Briton of Russian extraction who grew up in Brazil").
But the cover-up is a cockamamie delirium tremens hallucination cooked up by the Monaco alcoholics:
Ted arranged to create a scenario to win Edmond's trust and respect--
Ted already had Edmond's trust and respect.
He'd already saved Edmond's life by noting the medications administered by the previous shifts--when others on the staff intentionally did not note them.
Ted got caught doing the right thing at the wrong time--he defended Edmond and Vivian from the attackers.
After all, it was Lily who:
Changed Edmond's will at the last minute to her benefit;
Sent the entire personal security team away from the penthouse to the estate La Leopolda;
Changed the couple's citizenship to Monagasque effective the day of Edmond's death;
Paid nursing head Sonia Casiano-Herkrath $100,000 "confidentiality fee"--
It will be remembered that Sonia pencilled in Vivian and Ted at the last minute--
It is only Sonia's contradictory, uncorroborated depositions which "establish" Edmond and Vivian's last moments--
And what of the hasty buy-off of Vivian's husband Ireneo with $2,000,000 of Lily's personal funds--
Why couldn't she wait for an insurance investigation?
Why did she have to cremate Edmond and bury him in Geneva when all his life he'd wanted to be buried in Israel?
And the fire report says there were multiple sources of ignition with the major conflagration occuring an hour after Ted was rushed to the hospital--
You mean, in three days of beating and sleep deprivation and threats on Ted's wife and children, Monaco police couldn't get him to confess to the multiple sources of ignition?
Oh, they didn't know what their wet team had done--
Don't you just hate that when that happens?
The police commander gave the order that no one was to enter until his command--not even if the Prince himself said to--
A fireman encountered the inconsequential candle in the wastebasket and was ordered to ignore it--
The penthouse was stripped of furniture and Edmond was cremated--
The planted sealed bottle of lidocaine was not checked for prints and provenance as Ted requested--
The police emergency call tape for just the death night is missing--
So much laundering--yet it still stinks.
Amen,........More Grace and Mercy,........In Jesus' Precious Name, Amen!!!
-BTTT-
Amen,.......More Grace and Mercy,.......In Jesus' Precious Name, Amen!!!
In today's Nice Matin:
Tuesday November 19, 2002 12:46 You are here: Current events nicematin.fr:
Safra Lawsuit
67 years old, Edmond Safra was the founder of national Republic bank of New York and one of the richest men of the world. He died on December 3, 1999 in the fire of his apartment Monegasque.
44 years an American male nurse, Theodore Maher will answer on November 21 in front of the criminal court of Monaco of died of the banker billionaire and his nurse Vivian Torrente. Epilogue of an instruction which lasted three years and did not raise all the zones of shade of the Imprimer file the article. To send.
When the financial world learns, flabbergasted, the death of the libano-Brazilian banker Edmond Safra, December 3, 1999 in Monaco, no one cannot imagine by which aberrant combination of circumstances one of the richest men of planet died.
Even most delirious of the scenarios considered then (attacks terrorist, revenge on the Russian Maffia, family plot on bottom of fabulous heritage) appears more credible than the version given, two days later, by the Attorney General Daniel Serdet: a male nurse of the billionaire, Theodore Maher, would have simulated an attack and put fire at the apartment with an only aim of saving his owner and of passing in his eyes for a hero!
Not, definitely, it was too absurd, it was inevitably y to have another thing. Three years after, per hour when will open the lawsuit of the male nurse in front of the criminal court of Monaco, one is however always there.
Tens of journalists dispatched in Principality to inquire into "the Safra Business", two examining magistrates consecutively charged with the file, Patricia Richet and Jean Christophe Hullin, and of tens of expertises did not open other tracks, nor not found indices making it possible to call into question the version of the male nurse. All the debates of the lawsuit, which opens on November 21 in Monaco, will thus consist in defining the exact degree of responsibility for the male nurse in the death of the two victims.
However, taking into account the personality of the principal victim and the particular climate in which the instruction proceeded, this lawsuit is announced well like most media that ever knew the Principality. With this occasion, "Nice-Morning" reopens the file of the Safra business. Philippe DUPUY. Tuesday November 19, 2002
Judge Richet physically attacked Judge Hullin, putting him in the hospital for a week. Profonde Gorge had advised that Richet was "neurotic, incompetent, reappointed due to her obedience to the police". We know that Richet screamed at Ted, "I know that you will be found guilty!" as she tore up letters from his children.
As for Danile Serdet, prosecutor, his slanderous lies that Ted was on drugs were exploded by Princess Grace Memorial Hospital toxicology tests showing negatif negatif negatif for drugs and alcohol.
Monaco proceeds to l'corte d'kangaroo on the backs of such judges and prosecutors as these--relying on the extorted false confession obtained after their three-day beating of the innocent American Ted Maher, and their vile threats upon his wife and children.
...MONACO:...Please,...Let Ted Maher come home to HIS country and HIS family!
Amen,........More Grace and Mercy,......In Jesus' Precious Name, Amen!!!
Amen,........More Grace and Mercy,.......In Jesus' Precious Name, Amen!!!
This thing's just started to get cranked up.
On behalf of Ted Maher...
-BTTT-
What are the odds Lily's second husband Alfredo "Freddy" Monteverde would shoot himself TWICE IN THE HEART--
--and leave Lily over TWO HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS?
What are the odds Lily would disconnect the burglar alarm July 1, 1999?
[Source: The head of Monaco Securite's deposition in the official fire report.]
What are the odds Lily would send ALL ELEVEN of Edmond's security team from the penthouse in La Belle Epoque to the chateau La Leopolda?
[Source: Israeli journalist Boaz Bismuth to DatelineNBC producer Sara James November 21, 2000, "Who Killed the Billionaire?"]
What are the odds it would take THREE HOURS for Monaco to "find" Edmond and Vivian?
[First alarm: 4:54 a.m. Edmond and Vivian "found": 7:45 a.m. Source: Monaco fire report.]
What are the odds the major conflagration would occur AN HOUR AFTER TED WAS RUSHED TO PRINCESS GRACE MEMORIAL?
[Source: Monaco fire report.]
What are the odds Monaco prosecutor Daniel Serdet would continue his lie that Ted was on drugs after the hospital proved Serdet a liar?
[Source: Princess Grace Memorial toxicology report shown on DatelineNBC show cited above.]
What are the odds Monaco would hold Ted THREE YEARS ISOLATED AND GAGGED?
Here's where it gets interesting--December 3 will be three years--Monaco scheduled its "trial" to end December 2!
Monaco violated its law against interrogation of defendants without attorney present--yet refuses to release Ted.
Monaco violated its law against interfering with client-attorney correspondence.
Monaco violates its law allowing defendants to select their own attorneys.
Monaco police have no satisfactory explanation for having destroyed only the police emergency call tape for the date in question.
No records corroborate the contradictory depositions of Lily's paid agent--the only "witness" to the last moments of the deceased.
Vivian bore marks of "combat wounding" and strangulation--not asphyxiation.
Edmond's blood spattered Vivian's undergarments.
The penthouse security camera was "not functional" despite major renovations and a Certificate of Occupancy dated July 1, 1999.
Only the three days of four-point restraint, catheterization, beating, sleep deprivation and threats obtained Ted's false confession.
Monaco must still answer for kidnapping Ted's wife, stealing her U.S. Passport, and threatening the couple's children.
A Kafkaesque kangaroo court and Stalinesque show trial are not justice.
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