{"id":43128,"date":"2025-06-05T01:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T06:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=43128"},"modified":"2025-06-05T04:28:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T09:28:19","slug":"suspect-in-unitedhealthcare-ceo-killing-said-he-had-it-coming-prosecutors-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=43128","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO killing said he ‘had it coming,’ prosecutors say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

NEW YORK — Six weeks before UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson<\/a> was gunned down outside a Manhattan hotel in December, suspect Luigi Mangione mused about rebelling against \u201cthe deadly, greed fueled health insurance cartel\u201d and said killing the executive \u201cconveys a greedy bastard that had it coming,\u201d prosecutors revealed Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Manhattan district attorney\u2019s office quoted extensively from Mangione\u2019s handwritten diary \u2014 highlighting his desire to kill an insurance honcho and praise for Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber \u2014 as they fight to uphold his state murder charges. They also cited a confession they say he penned \u201cTo the feds,\u201d in which he wrote that \u201cit had to be done.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mangione\u2019s lawyers want the state case thrown out, arguing in court papers that those charges and a parallel federal death penalty case amount to double jeopardy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They also want state terrorism charges dismissed, have asked for the federal case to go first and say prosecutors should be barred from using evidence collected during Mangione\u2019s arrest, including a 9mm handgun<\/a>, statements to police and the diary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manhattan prosecutors contend that there are no double jeopardy issues because neither case has gone to trial and because the state and federal prosecutions involve different legal theories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His lawyers say that has created a \u201clegal quagmire\u201d that makes it \u201clegally and logistically impossible to defend against them simultaneously.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The state charges, which carry a maximum of life in prison, allege that Mangione wanted to \u201cintimidate or coerce a civilian population,\u201d that is, insurance employees and investors. The federal charges allege that Mangione stalked an individual, Thompson, and do not involve terror allegations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mangione, 27, has pleaded not guilty in both cases. No trial dates have been set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mangione\u2019s \u201cintentions were obvious from his acts, but his writings serve to make those intentions explicit,\u201d prosecutors said in Wednesday\u2019s filing. The writings, which they sometimes described as a manifesto, \u201cconvey one clear message: that the murder of Brian Thompson was intended to bring about revolutionary change to the healthcare industry.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They quoted excerpts in which Mangione discussed options for the attack, such as bombing UnitedHealthcare\u2019s headquarters, before deciding to target the company’s investor conference in Manhattan. He wrote about plans to \u201cwack the CEO at the annual parasitic bean-counter convention\u201d because it was \u201ctargeted, precise and doesn\u2019t risk innocents.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UnitedHealthcare, the largest U.S. health insurer, \u201cliterally extracts human life force for money,\u201d Mangione wrote, envisioning the news headline, \u201cInsurance CEO killed at annual investors conference.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company has said he was never a client.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mangione is due back in state court June 26, when Judge Gregory Carro is expected to rule on his request for dismissal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His lawyers asked Tuesday for his handcuffs and bulletproof vest to be removed during the hearing. They called him a \u201ca model prisoner, a model defendant\u201d and said the security measures would suggest to potential jurors that he is dangerous. Carro has not ruled on that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mangione\u2019s next federal court date is Dec. 5, a day after the one-year anniversary of Thompson\u2019s death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Surveillance video showed a masked gunman shooting Thompson from behind as he arrived for the conference Dec. 4 at the New York Hilton Midtown. Police say \u201cdelay,\u201d \u201cdeny\u201d and \u201cdepose\u201d were scrawled on the ammunition, mimicking a phrase commonly used to describe how insurers avoid paying claims<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mangione was arrested Dec. 9 at a McDonald\u2019s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, 230 miles (about 370 kilometers) to the west, and he is being held in a federal jail in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has called the ambush \u201ca killing that was intended to evoke terror.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced in April that she was directing federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty for \u201can act of political violence\u201d and a \u201cpremeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The killing and ensuing search for Mangione rattled the business community while galvanizing health insurance critics who rallied around him as a stand-in<\/a> for frustrations over coverage denials and hefty bills. Supporters have flocked to his court appearances and flooded him with mail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mangione \u201cdemonstrated in his manifesto that he was a revolutionary anarchist who would usher in a better healthcare system by killing the CEO\u201d of one of the biggest U.S. companies, prosecutors wrote. \u201cThis brutal, cowardly murder was the mechanism that defendant chose to bring on that revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NEW YORK — Six weeks before UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down outside a Manhattan hotel in December, suspect Luigi Mangione mused about rebelling against \u201cthe deadly, greed fueled health insurance cartel\u201d and said killing the executive \u201cconveys a greedy bastard that had it coming,\u201d prosecutors revealed Wednesday. The Manhattan district attorney\u2019s office quoted extensively from Mangione\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":43129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[2307,1303,31524],"class_list":["post-43128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-ceo","tag-suspect","tag-unitedhealthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43130,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43128\/revisions\/43130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}