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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...MONACO:....Please, Let Ted Maher come HOME to HIS Country and HIS Family.
Amen,......More Grace and Mercy,......In Jesus Precious Name, Amen!!!
5763
Amen,.......More Grace and MERCY,.......In Jesus' Precious Name, Amen!!!
PLEASE........
Those chances range all the way from nill, down to none.
But I'm [beginning to] suspect Monaco's punky, gawd-awful corrupt judiciary will have by then also accomplished what they set-out to do in the first place: to, permit the trail of Edmund's real murderers to become ice cold over these past three years.
The whole sordid atrocity of Ted Maher, spanning those agonizing years, will have become -PAID IN FULL-.
Paid with the missing years of his very life.
We shall all soon see.
Media'll be present to see.
Powerful personalities interested in justice will also be in that "court room" *just* to see.
Ultimately, the world too, shall see.
See through Monaco's shameless ruse.
Of this I have the utmost faith.
On behalf of Ted Maher...
-BTTT-
No, not just, "the" defense lawyers.
The MONACO-APPOINTED DEFENSE LAWYERS.
As I recall; &, correct me if I'm wrong, here; but, hasn't Monaco prohibited Griffith -- Ted Maher's chosen counsel -- from representing Maher??
Prohibited Griffith on the *flimsiest* of reasons, at that?
Isn't that correct??
Which is to say -- & in no uncertain terms -- Ted Maher's going to be going to trial without any legal representation, a'tall.
*So* reminiscent of the US POW's trials in good 'ol Hanoi, don'tcha think?
Nevertheless the world still watches intently, listening for the ring of truth; and, they'll not hear so much as the slightest *ding* coming from this *court*.
Unless Monaco moves to have this a "closed to the public" trial, they'll quickly reveal themselves for the fruads they are.
Then watch the fecal matter hit the impeller visa vi films, books, & the deafening roar of whispers.
Frankly, the pinhead-elite have really put themselves between a rock & a hard place.
Stupid-stupid-stupid.
"This is not true. But then it is from Monaco and it seems that no one can tell the truth there."
This is what the world will come to learn, rather quickly.
There're simply too many holes for Monaco to succeed plugging 'em all with their lies & get away scott-free.
Ain't gonna happen.
*Faith*.
On behalf of Ted Maher...
-BTTT-
In today's accounts the prosecution claims Edmond sent his own security away.
Why, after three years, does the liar Daniel Serdet now lie again on this point?
Israeli journalist Boaz Bismuth told NBC producer Sara James November 21, 2000, on DatelineNBC "Who Killed the Billionaire?":
It was the lady [Lily] who did not want them [the security team] around.
The DatelineNBC transcript is up at Mike Maher's site for Ted: www.TedMaher.com--
--although Dateline pulled it from its site soon after the air date, pleading "lack of interest"--
LACK OF INTEREST IN THE TRUTH
And so it goes with the kangaroo court which has suppressed the truth, the real evidence which is exulpatory,
Substituting incriminating lies: Edmond feared for his safety--
Who disconnected the penthouse burgalar alarm July 1, 1999?
Who destroyed the police emergency call tapes?
Why did the police destroy Ted's original clothes (with cuts and bloodstaining) and substitute new sports clothes which had never been worn--
--and could never have been worn as they weren't allowed on Safra's staff due to the dress code.
Touch it where you will, the prosecution is squishy with rotten lies--
And what's more rotten than Monaco's stooges Manasse and Blot?
They would not even get the police to check the planted lidocaine for fingerprints and provenance--
A sealed bottle, with label in French, which was ordered by Sonia (who else had authority?)--planted.
The candle in the wastebasket was to summon help--and was in no way connected to the multiple sources of ignition--
--just as Ted was not responsible for the sudden conflagration at 6 a.m., an hour after he was rushed to the hospital.
The kangaroo court and its monkey trial relying on manufactured incriminating evidence and suppressed exculpatory evidence--
Three years after the intruders entered the penthouse--unimpeded because the burglar alarm was disconnected--
--because Lily sent the security away--
--because the security camera on the landing (see fire report) was disabled--
How convenient that Lily had just changed the will to her advantage--
--had just changed their citizenship to Monagasque (effective that day)--
--had paid Sonia $100,000 to stay dummied up--
--has paid Vivian's husband $2,000,000 to shut up about Vivian dying by strangulation--
--and so it goes, money talks, truth spends three years in solitary--
--on a false confession extorted by beating, sleep deprivation, threats, kidnapping, passport theft.
...MONACO:..................please,...Please,....PLEASE.......!
Mercy,.......MERCY,.........
5763
.........................In Jesus' Precious Name, Amen!!!
Not *everything*.
"This trial is a Monaco scam."
Uh-huh, that it is.
"Some 60 people were on tedmaher site today."
So don'tcha wonder who at least *some* of those people who visited, really are??
(Just close your eyes & use your imagination...)
"They are reading what we are writing."
Yup.
That's what they're doing, alright; reading what y'all have wrote.
"Here they will read the truth - not in Monaco."
I suspect you're correct concerning their *motives* for investing their time at tedmaher.com.
Because isn't it obvious the truth's what some of 'em have come seeking; after, they first heard Monaco's story?
Oh yea...
They're not going to get; nor, have they recieved the truth from Monaco.
Not any more than they recieved the truth from that shameless shill from, "Court TV." {~spit}
Neither Monaco or their mediot arm have passed the proverbial, smell test; so, they now come seeking answers.
The little snowball now gathers mass & momentum and quietly becomes a large, noisy avalanche.
We all must now permit higher powers to be generous.
Faith.
On behalf of Ted Maher...
-BTTT-
American nurse on trial in billionaire's death says it was an accident
Reports are out that Ted Maher has confessed to setting a fire to yada yada yada.
Hel-lo-lo.
Ted "confessed" three years ago.
The police held Ted in four-point restraint, catheterized, sleep-deprived for three days while they kidnapped his wife;
They stole his wife's passport and threatened to detain her indefinitely;
They said they were strip-searching and torturing her;
They displayed secretly-taken photos of the couple's children;
They played secretly-recorded tapes of the children's voices;
They extorted Ted's signature on their prepared false confession in French which Ted does not read, write or speak;
In Monaco, no confession is ever recanted.
Ted's Monaco-paid pre-tend de-fense attorneys, Georges Blot and Donald A. Manasse, told Ted he must adhere to his extorted false confession.
He has never been allowed to refute it--he is told if he attempts to tell the truth, he will be sentenced for life.
So we see him obedient to Blot and Manasse and the Monaco game.
Three years of isolation, three years of pressure, with the constant threat that telling the truth is at best a life sentence.
Involuntary manslaughter is six years reduced to three for good behavior releasing him for time served--
This is what Blot and Manasse say.
The lying Serdet says it's arson resulting in death which is a life sentence--
Of course, Serdet cannot show the required intent.
The assembled audience knows Monaco's rules, knows Ted was forced to confess, knows he could not have cut himself.
There is sympathy and understanding beneath the facade of the extorted false confession and the fabricated coverup.
It is not pretty to see what Monaco's thugs have produced, but there may be an end sooner rather than later.
Be that as it may, this will not end until Ted is freed.
The trial is as false as the original extorted confession.
From the Reuters story, the link posted above.
Looks like your boy admitted everything he is accused of.
Ted's going to prison, for a very long time.
Or is Ted lying too?
You guys are absolutely hilarious in your denial.
It's how the game is played in Monaco.
When the police beat a confession out of you, you carry that through trial.
When the Monaco police beat you into confessing, that's it.
Game over.
What's hilarious about that?
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