Nurse Gets 10 Years in Fire Fatal to Billionaire
From Times Wire Reports
An American nurse was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison for setting a fire in Monaco that killed his employer, billionaire Edmond Safra.
Testimony said Ted Maher hoped to emerge a hero in the Dec. 3, 1999, blaze at Safra’s luxury penthouse by organizing a rescue. Safra, the 67-year-old founder of Republic National Bank of New York, had Parkinson’s disease.
He and nurse Vivian Torrente died of asphyxiation.
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