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

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.

To read the "BASIC TIMELINE" that describes the events surrounding the night of December 3, 1999, click here:

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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.")

Sunday November 24, 2002 Current events nicematin.fr > Safra Lawsuit

Ted Maher arrived yesterday morning at the audience with the features even drawn than the day before.

Maher complains about its conditions of detention

Wouldn't the prison of Monaco justify any more its reputation of "prison five stars"? Always it is that yesterday morning with the resumption of the audience, the defendant Ted Maher, the features drawn and paler still than the day before, made a point of making a statement to denounce his conditions of detention.

"When I returned from the audience yesterday evening, it affirmed, I found my cell without top below, all had been excavated and me had been confiscated my pillow. After that, I was awaked every twenty minutes by the visit of a guard and I could not close the eye of the night. Under these conditions, how can I defend myself correctly?

Does one seek to lead me to the suicide? "

Ensuring that it of it was nothing, the Attorney General Daniel Serdet indicated not to know from which this initiative came and affirmed that "all the provisions will be taken so that the safety and the serenity of the defendant are assured".

Information taken, it would seem that the rumour ran to the prison which a depressed prisoner would be ready to make an attempt on his days.

The guards would have then logically thought that it could be a question of Maher and would have accentuated their monitoring.

PH. D. Saturday November 23, 2002

The above article appeared in the Nice-Matin paper. Ted has been in prison almost three years and he had no intention of committing suicide these past three years or now. He wants all the evidence to come out about this case.

In another paper from France it states the lawyers for the brothers want --

"The videotapes of interior monitoring seized, partly unobtrusive, would hardly be exploitable just as the traces of male ADN not identified found under the nails of Edmond Safra."

THE DNA OF A MALE EXCLUDES TED. WHO'S DNA IS IT? STRANGE THAT NO ONE HAS CHECKED THIS OUT. THREE YEARS AND STILL QUESTIONS NOT ANSWERED.

BLOOD FROM MR. SAFRA ON VIVIAN BUT NONE ON MR. SAFRA. HOW CAN THIS HAPPEN?

WHERE IS THE CHAIR MR. SAFRA WAS FOUND IN? WAS THERE DNA ON IT?

FREE TED MAHER NOW, MONACO

DAY 1,086 WRONGLY IMPRISONED ON EXTORTED FALSE CONFESSION

European press reports "rest of the story"--fatal to coverup.

Fairy tales are easily remembered: they're simple and repetitive.

But with so few moving parts, the loss of even one is fatal to the morality play.

Take for example, Vivian's "death from asphyxiation".

Didn't happen. Autopsy shows she was strangled.

". . .very pronounced blood infiltration of almost the entire thyroid area. . . ."

DNA under Vivian's nails which was not Ted's. Ditto Edmond Safra.

Various combat bruises on Vivian, and her panties, bra and barrette spattered with Edmond's blood.

So, the official tale that Edmond and Vivian died of "asphyxiation" is not true.

It's been said videotapes showed no intruders. Actually that's half true and half a lie.

The street cams showed nothing, but entry to La Belle Epoque is simple from the adjacent Hotel Hermitage.

Interior security cams (fire report notes one on landing) produced videotape which was taken and not released.

What was on these tapes?

Lily claimed the cameras were not operative--but extensive renovations resulted in a Certificate of Occupancy July 1, 1999.

Police seized two men of Middle Eastern descent in the parking garage under the penthouse--

These men were allegedly questioned and released--

But what was their business under the building at that hour?

What were they doing in Monaco?

The chair in which Edmond Safra died has been destroyed. He has been cremated.

Vivian's husband has been paid $2,000,000.

The fire report notes multiple sources of ignition. Ted is alleged to have been involved with a single wastebasket--

A wastebasket deemed inconsequential to the major conflagration--

A conflagration which occured one hour after Ted was rushed to the hospital.

So, Monaco has never had anything but the original extorted false confession, continually enforced by its paid agents Blot and Manasse.

While the world awaits an explanation from Lily as to why she sent Edmond's security away that night--

Yet travels with a security team of her own.

The official coverup is a fairy tale with fatal exceptions.

Monaco itself has little confidence in it, and must continue to awaken Ted Maher every twenty minutes.

Monaco, stop and think about it: Even Lily moved away.

MONACO: SO DANGEROUS EVEN THE SHARKS WON'T SWIM THERE

FREE TED MAHER NOW, MONACO

DAY 1,087 WRONGLY IMPRISONED ON EXTORTED FALSE CONFESSION

A strange show of affection for "a person I adored"--The Lady revises and extends her remarks

From the Australian press:

Sonia Herkrath, another former nurse, last Friday testified that on the day after the blaze in December 1999, she had heard the Uruguayan-born Lily complain that "it was the Monaco police that killed my husband".

Lily, a neatly groomed figure in a black trouser suit, fixed her dark, mascara-lined eyes on the judge. "I was desperately upset after the death of someone I adored," she said, explaining her criticism of the police.

From the public record, we know this about her "adoration":

"Someone" had the burglar alarm disconnected July 1, 1999, per the head of Monaco Securite in his fire report depositon;

"Someone" being either Edmond who was very afraid for his safety, or Lily.

Lily changed Edmond's will to her benefit shortly before his death;

Hence she was sued by Edmond's sisters who said she'd cut them out;

Lily sent the dozen members of the security team away from the penthouse that night;

This was told to DatelineNBC's Sara James by Israeli journalist Boaz Bismuth November 21, 2000, in "Who Killed the Billionaire?"

Lily's paid agent Sonia Casiano-Herkrath (in addition to salary, Lily paid her $100,000 "confidentiality fee") pencilled in Vivian and Ted at the last minute;

So "desperately upset" over the death of someone she "adored" was Lily, that she cremated Edmond and buried him in Switzerland--rather than Israel as he'd wished his entire life;

She arranged for their citizenship to change to Monagasque the day of his death, the day of the approval of the sale of his bank;

Netting her enough billions to be touted as the richest woman in the world (by some reports).

She paid Vivian's husband $2,000,000 to avoid an insurance investigation--

Insurance investigators are thorough and can't be bought--

Unlike Monaco.

Connections.

But of course, connections.

Lily's attorney Brendan Sullivan defended Oliver North in Iran Contra.

Her attorney Stanley Arkin defended CIA Central American Task Force chief Alan Fiers in Iran Contra;

Arkin sued American Express for accusing Edmond Safra's Republic Bank of involvement in Iran Contra and won eight million;

Arkin's clients have included Prince Albert Grimaldi of Monaco.

So why does Monaco have to awaken Ted Maher every twenty minutes?

This type of "special treatment" was given to KGB defector Yuri I. Nosenko by the CIA;

The old sleep-deprivation technique--why is it necessary?

Why would Henry Kissinger say of Edmond's death that it was "a cruel, vindictive act"?

HK's presence on the board of American Express demonstrates he means to be taken seriously by the world of business--

"cruel and vindictive" suggest the now-denied line of the chief prosecutor of Geneva that Safra was killed for cooperating with the FBI in the laundering through Republic of $4.8 billion in IMF loans to Russia;

Anne Williamson author of Contagion said among the beneficiaries of such laundering was Rubin--

Of Goldman Sachs fame--

A firm numbered among the clients of Lily's Stanley Arkin.

Ted had drafted a letter of resignation from Edmond Safra's staff, and was returning to his nursing position at Columbia Presbyterian in New York;

And to his wife and children: it was to pay the legal bills to adopt his child by a previous marriage that he took the job offer generated by his patients' parents, the Slatkins;

Laura Slatkin made Lily's scented candles; husband Harry's brother Howard Slatkin is a favorite designer of Lily;

[Part of the extensive renovations completed July 1, 1999 were the steel roller blinds and bulletproof glass that kept out the firemen--

--and the separate air handling units which failed to prevent the asphyxiation of Edmond and Vivian, and kept Lily's air clean]

That the Director of Operations of the CIA under John Deutch was Nora Slatkin is probably the merest coincidence--

Too much of coincidence is confusing:

Arkin defended Goldman Sachs which spawned Rubin whom Williamson said profited from laundering through Republic whom Arkin defended against Iran-Contra charges by American Express on whose board sits Henry Kissinger who said Edmond's death was a "cruel vindictive act"--

While Rubin went to Citigroup (chief debtor Enron) as Deutch went to Citibank and took along Slatkin who was "investigating" Deutch for putting 17,000 classified CIA files on his unsecured home computer logged onto Russian sites--

No, it's much simpler to have a "designated lone nut"--even if you have to keep giving him the third degree three years later--

Because when you bring in Russians and banking you have Lily's Stanley Arkin defending Bank of New York's Natasha Kagalovsky (husband Konstantin Kagalovsky of Russia's Menatep, formerly) in the money laundering scandal--

And frankly, it's as difficult to swallow as Lily's second husband shooting himself twice in the heart to leave her $200,000,000--

Monaco, you've had your three years, you get a failing grade--

Let Ted return to his family--he's innocent--

MONACO, 30,000 RESIDENTS AND 340,000 BANK ACCOUNTS

The math doesn't wash; does the money launder?

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