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Posted on 01/22/2003 2:56:30 AM PST by kattracks
MONACO Jan. 22 —An American male nurse convicted in the arson death of billionaire banker Edmond Safra escaped from prison overnight, police said Wednesday.
Ted Maher, originally of Auburn, Maine, was convicted of arson in a 1999 fire in Monaco that also killed one of Safra's other nurses, Vivian Torrente.
Copyright 2003 The Associated Press.
I have been on your ping list for probably a year and this is the first time I have read that Ted confessed to setting the fire.
Will you please just tell me whether or not it is true that Ted confessed to setting the fire?
Caviar's a little stale, and the wine list is SO passe.
France has the most notoriously brutal prison system in the Western World.
The recidivism rate for French criminals is very low due the horror found in France's jails.
Certainly France has an extradition agreement with Monaco.
Maybe he can pull a Spagliari and escape again.
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Secondly, Yes he did confess BUT, it was coerced by the Monaco gestapo which threatened him with not seeing his family again.
This was pointed out time and time again but apparently, some people are too stubborn to accept it. They are choosing to take the word of the Monaco gestapo over some freepers who have done their homework and researched this story.
I have researched this matter and I'm standing by my finding that he is innocent and if you don't like it, tough.
Obviously, you and everyone else detracting againt Ted don't know how to look at things very well like I do.
I have been on your ping list for probably a year and this is the first time I have read that Ted confessed to setting the fire.
Will you please just tell me whether or not it is true that Ted confessed to setting the fire?
I do not know if this man deserves to be in jail or not.
I do know that the total loss of freedom is no picnic.?
And I would hate to see what you consider a 3 star hotel.
Edmond Safra cooperated with the FBI regarding the laundering through Republic of $4.8 billion in IMF loans to Russia.
Safra was one who played his cards close to his vest; the unique transactions of Republic were known only to him, and their trail died with him.
It was considerate of him to schedule his suspicious death after his wife changed his will to her benefit. . . .
. . . and the very day her change of citizenship was finalized. . . .
He was, you know, only in Monaco to meet with John Bond of HSBC to finalize the sale of Republic which netted Lily three billion.
Lily had sent the security team to the palatial estate La Leopolda, making help quite impossible--
And how can we explain the cowardice of the Monaco police?
The first alarm went in at 4:54 a.m., yet the brave gendarmes only found the bodies at 7:45 a.m.--three hours in the heart of Monte Carlo--
And for the premier citizen.
It has been said by those close to the scene, "So much incompetence does not come cheaply."
Just as so much judicial impropriety must have come at a dear price.
Why did security chief Samuel Cohen not have keys? Because Lily had taken them we are told by a writer on the subject.
Why did police put Cohen in handcuffs when he could have saved Edmond and Vivian?
Why was the burglar alarm disconnected July 1, 1999?
Why did Lily's paid agent Sonia pencil in Ted Maher and Vivian Torrente at the last minute?
Ted drafted a letter of resignation and was returning to his family and his Columbian-Presbyterian job--why would he pull a stunt?
Ted tested negatif for drugs so why would Monaco prosecutor Daniel Serdet continue in his slander?
Why did Monaco police need to extort a false confession?
Why did Monaco authorities isolate Ted from communication about the night in question for three years?
Why did Monaco guards awaken Ted every 20 to 40 minutes every night of the ten-day trial, creating a pitiful wreck of a human?
Why did Monaco police "lose" their emergency call tape for the night of the deaths?
Why did they destroy Ted's original clothing and substitute brand-new, uncut, unstained, prohibited athletic wear?
Why did Monaco authorities snatch Ted's wife and her brother off the sidewalk and ransack their room, steal their U.S. Passports?
Why the threats on Ted's wife and children?
How came the sudden conflagration an hour after Ted was taken to the hospital?
Why did Lily pay off Vivian's husband if not simply to avoid the insurance investigation?
Why did Monaco suppress the testimony of world-class forensic DNA expert Dr. Michael J. Baden?
Why would Ted need to do a wacky stunt to get the respect from Safra he already had?
Sonia was a known problem supervisor with a dizzying turnover rate--why was she retained and bought off by Lily?
If Lily had Edmond cremated, why pretend to have a funeral with a coffin?
If Vivian died of strangulation, spattered with Edmond's blood, how came Edmond to be a red fount?
The trial was quick, but answered none of these questions.
He is already caught. The dummy called home from the hotel he was hiding in to talk to his relatives,and the French found him by merely checking phone records to see who had been making calls to certain numbers.
So much for Ted being some sort of Green Beret...he has no idea what "escape and evasion" means...
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