The Return of Ted Maher: Billionaire Edmond Safra’s Killer Accused of Plotting Yet Another Murder

The Murder Sheet has an exclusive report touching upon an infamous international case.

In 1999, an American nurse named Ted Maher was accused of setting fire to a Monte Carlo penthouse and murdering billionaire Edmond Safra and a colleague named Vivian Torrente.

In 2023, under the new name Jon Green, the same man was charged with criminal solicitation to commit murder.

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Reporting on Edmond Safra:

The Los Angeles Times’s reporting on American Express:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-04-28-fi-1108-story.html

Coverage from Forbes on the Russia-related scandal: https://www.forbes.com/2007/05/17/bony-russia-lawsuit-biz-services-cx_lm_0517suit.html?sh=4dcae2bd21c1

The Jewish Week’s feature on Safra: https://www.hsje.org/Whoswho/Edmund_Safra/we_have_lost_our_crown.html

The New York Post’s coverage of Safra’s reputation: https://nypost.com/1999/12/14/safras-sleuth-pi-joe-mullen-saved-the-reputation-of-the-late-edmond-safra-and-has-cracked-many-a-case-for-this-decades-famous-and-infamous/

The Washington Post’s coverage of the American Express incident involving Safra: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1989/07/29/american-express-offers-4-million-and-apology/aafa682c-f909-420a-8cba-64c1171b8754/

Coverage from The Times of Israel on Edmond Safra: https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-biography-probes-into-mysterious-backstory-of-billionaire-banker-edmond-j-safra/

“A Banker's Journey: How Edmond J. Safra Built a Global Financial Empire” by Daniel Gross: https://www.amazon.com/Bankers-Journey-Edmond-Global-Financial/dp/1635767857?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=murdersheet-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=e421f9aad81731bd8c533450c2d33219&camp=1789&creative=9325

"Vendetta: American Express and the Smearing of Edmond Safra" by Bryan Burrough: https://www.amazon.com/Vendetta-American-Express-Smearing-Edmond/dp/0060167599?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=murdersheet-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=daa163a4a68a59e1be75830f6856bef4&camp=1789&creative=9325

“Gilded Lily: Lily Safra: The Making of One of the World's Wealthiest Widows” by Isabel Vincent: https://www.amazon.com/GILDED-LILY-Isabel-Vincent/dp/0061133949?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=murdersheet-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=703a51336f36524e9ccc1178740241e4&camp=1789&creative=9325

Reporting on Ted Maher:

The New York Times’s story on the 1999 nursing strike: https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/05/nyregion/nurses-plan-strike-monday-at-columbia-presbyterian.html

The New York Times’s story on how the 1999 nursing strike was called off: https: