I have been contacted by a friend of Edmond's. The view that Ted Maher is a scapegoat is more widely held than publicly admitted.
Key to an understanding of the case is the extorted false confession. Monaco police held Ted in four-point restraint for three days, catheterized, sleep-deprived, threatened.
Monaco police kidnapped Ted's wife and stole her U.S. Passport, using it to pressure Ted to sign their prepared false confession in French which he does not read, write or speak. The Monaco police threatened to detain Ted's wife indefinitely, told Ted that they were strip-searching and torturing her.
Monaco police showed Ted and his wife photos of their three children, photos taken in the rural New York setting of their home, taken with no one's knowledge. Monaco police played recordings of the children's voices, recorded without anyone's knowledge.
Having thus obtained Ted's signature on their false confession, the baton was passed to the Monaco-appointed defense attorneys, Georges Blot and Donald Manasse. These have (for 1,013 days) insisted Ted stick to the false confession, to reaffirm it at every interrogation by magistrate, every hearing.
Monaco prosecutor Daniel Serdet told Time.com's Thomas Sancton that Ted was using drugs--but, Monaco's Princess Grace Memorial Hospital tested Ted and found him negatif negatif negatif for drugs and alcohol. Ted's wife has a file of 200-plus letters from family, friends, fellow soldiers (Special Forces 1978-81), medical colleagues (Ted was a neonatal nurse at Columbia Presbyterian), patients' parents, neighbors to the point that he has never used drugs.
Sancton used three persons in his initial story (December 20, 1999) who are bogus: the first wife declared by the court to be an unfit mother (Ted has custody of the child), a neighbor known to police as a nuisance, and a landlord who never rented to Ted.
The smear of Ted and scapegoating in a ridiculous fabricated plot conceals the actual details of Safra's death. It is maintained for no other reason.
The Monaco police failed to respond to calls for help--they have since managed to "lose" their emergency call tape for just this day, the 3d of December, 1999. But of course they have the tapes for the 2d and the 4th.
Ted used a scented candle, one which was always burning to mask Safra's diarrhea, to set off a smoke detector to summon help. This alarm was noted in the fire report as having occurred at 4:54 a.m.
Ted was rushed to the hospital immediately thereafter. Yet the fire report describes "a sudden conflagration at 6 a.m." and notes multiple sources of ignition. None of this was done by Ted.
Firemen were not allowed to reach Edmond Safra and Vivian Torrent until 7:45 a.m.--nearly three hours after the first alarm.
The autopsy notes infusion of blood of Vivian's thyroid and other infusions termed "bruising" yet states her cause of death as asphyxiation. She was spattered with Edmond's blood, yet he, too, is said to have died from asphyxiation.
Lily's second husband Alfredo "Freddy" Monteverde shot himself twice in the heart in Brazil in 1976 to leave her 210 million. Lily had changed Edmond's will shortly before his death. She changed their citizenship to Monagasque, finalized that day.
It was Lily who sent the security team to the palatial La Leopolda estate, leaving Edmond unprotected. It was almost certainly Lily who ordered the penthouse burglar alarm disconnected July 1, 1999, per the head of Monaco Securite.
Ted now has the active support of Michael Griffith who was featured in the film Midnight Express. Griffith has brought Dr. Michael Baden the noted forensic and DNA expert into Ted's defense. Dominick Dunne told Larry King in July of this year that he is "working every month on behalf of Ted Maher." Dunne was just proven correct in his conclusions regarding the Moxley-Skakel case.
Lily threw a $150,000 pound Renaissance party for 300 guests who paid $5,000 pounds each to attend--this included Prince Charles and Camilla and Elton John. She uses Howard Rubinstein for her publicity and he does the public relations for the New York Post. Neal Travis used to routinely slander Ted and laud Lily--but he's dead of cancer.
It's gone all Monaco's way as a result of power, not fact. Where fact has been exculpatory, it has been suppressed or altered or ignored.
As I've been researching this for over two years, I can't put everything into an email, and we can't include everything in any single post on the Free Republic threads or on Ted's brother Michael's site.
You will find much material in the Free Republic threads and their links, and archived on the TedMaher.com site.
I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have, insofar as I can. I'm not the one who is closest to it; Ted is closest and muzzled; Heidi is closer than I, but does a limited number of interviews.
Henry Kissinger said at the time of Safra's death that it was done by someone capable of a cruel and vindictive act. The chief prosecutor of Geneva said Safra was killed for cooperating with the FBI regarding the laundering through Republic of $4.8 billion in IMF loans to Russia. Anne Williamson author of Contagion said she knew Ted was a scapegoat. Amy Waters Yarsinske who fought to keep the Scott Speicher case alive is now working on Ted's case.
Contact me by email, regular mail or telephone at any time and I'll be happy to discuss this case. It's really an honorable Green Beret veteran, loyal husband, loving father and caring and compassionate medical professional wrongly imprisoned on an extorted false confession--in his third year, without trial and prohibited mail, phone or visitors.
Phil Dragoo
phildragoo@att.net
505-473-0235 [Fax capable--call first]
310 Airport Road #311
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87507
I realize that hindsight's 20/20; however...
From the very beginning (of my involvement with Ted Maher's situation...) THIS is why I was so adamantly opposed to learn Ted would be pleading "guilty" to ANYTHING, with this flakey bunch in the Monaco legal *system*!
Ted Maher's innocent; &, there was & IS only one true, surefire way to drive that point home: plead innocent.
As it is now, apparently, Ted's sitting in a Monaco jail and regardless of what his plea would've been.
Absent any "plea bargained" guarentees, Ted really didn't have much more to lose by standing his ground.
The troll frquenting this thread, btw, might've been on you-know-whose payroll, eh?
As sweet *Lily* is the only person who'd stand to gain a *thing* with Ted Maher's continued incarceration.
Lily would preferrably *like* seeing Ted Maher tried & found "guilty" just asap so this case would be formally closed once & for all.
As far as her interests are concerned, nothing could be sweeter.
On behalf of Ted Maher, then...
-BTTT-