Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old previous Ivy Leaguer that purportedly deserted an occupation in computer technology to execute UnitedHealthcare CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Brian Thompson, is encountering boosting lawful problems as state and government district attorneys remain to up the fees versus him and disclose brand-new proof.
A brand-new government criminal grievance declaring fees of tracking, murder with use a weapon and government weapons offenses charges Mangione of maintaining a journal in which he detailed the dangerous story, mused concerning picking a sufferer and patted himself on the back for remaining to look into the target.
The brand-new government instance brings the capacity for the execution back right into the formula, ought to Mangione be founded guilty.
“This investor conference is a true windfall,” among the access reviews, according to the sworn statement. “And – most importantly – the message becomes self-evident.”
UNITEDHEALTHCARE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER MURDER SUSPICIOUS LUIGI MANGIONE DEALING WITH NEW CHARGES IN NEW YORK CITY
Luigi Mangioni is accompanied from an NYPD helicopter in New York City, NY, Thursday,Dec 19, 2024. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)
Mangione purportedly covered intending to “wack” an insurance coverage chief executive officer which he was “glad – in a way – that I’ve procrastinated, [because] it allowed me to learn more about UHC.”
He purportedly composed that he selected to target the insurance policy sector due to the fact that “it checks every box.”
Then he purportedly fired Thompson in the back outside a Hilton resort in Manhattan, where UnitedHealthcare was slated to organize its yearly investor seminar later on that early morning onDec 4.
“The radicalization that is taking place across our country, we cannot ignore,” NEW YORK CITY Mayor Eric Adams stated Thursday after Mangione landed in Manhattan after being flown in fromPennsylvania “When you see an incident that took place on our streets, when you witnessed the shooting that took place on a school campus, by now, a young girl that is the continuation of our young people are crying out for help. We have an obligation not only to make apprehensions after an incident of this magnitude, but to do far more to prevent.”
The CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER of UnitedHealthcare’s moms and dad firm grieved the murder of Brian Thompson and implored individuals to see that sector execs are attempting their finest with a mistaken system. ( AP Photo/UnitedHe alth Group)
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Assistant FBI Director James Dennehy likewise banged Mangione’s purportedly twisted principles.
“Luigi Mangione allegedly conducted the carefully premeditated and targeted execution of Brian Thompson to incite national debates,” he stated in a declaration. “This alleged plot demonstrates a cavalier attitude towards humanity – deeming murder an appropriate recourse to satiate personal grievances
The document includes surveillance images that purport to show the suspect approaching and fleeing the scene, the moment of the murder, and the suspected murder weapon and 3D-printed suppressor.
Read the federal criminal complaint
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The affidavit also alleges that Mangione wrote a letter addressed ” to the Feds.”
” I had not been collaborating with anybody,” the journal reads. “This was relatively insignificant: Some primary social design, fundamental CAD, a great deal of perseverance.”
CAD is an acronym for computer-aided design. Social engineering is a technique that hackers use to trick people into divulging information to someone who isn’t authorized to receive it.
Mangione obtained both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania at the same time, then went on to work as a computer programmer before sources say he fell out of touch with his parents over the summer and resurfaced in New York City earlier this month in connection with the Thompson slaying.
Luigi Mangione is led into an NYPD vehicle following his extradition hearing at Blair County Courthouse in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024. (David Dee Delgado for Fox News Digital)
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“P.S. you can check serial numbers to verify this is all self-funded,” the Feds letter continued. “My own ATM withdrawals.”
Investigators allegedly recovered about $10,000 in cash during Mangione’s arrest by police in Altoona, Pennsylvania. He denied it was his in court.
His defense team, however, argued that New York’s first-degree murder charge, which includes an allegation of terrorism, is an overreach. The federal charges go even further.
“The federal government’s reported decision to pile on top of an already overcharged first-degree murder and state terror case is highly unusual and raises serious constitutional and statutory double jeopardy concerns,” his New York defense attorney, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, told Fox News. “We are ready to fight these charges in whatever court they are brought.”
The federal complaint repeats some details stated by Manhattan prosecutors and the NYPD and lays out a clear timeline.
A photo of the fake ID police allege Luigi Mangione used to check into a Manhattan hostel before the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. (FBI)
Mangione allegedly came to New York from Atlanta, Georgia, arriving at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan around 10 p.m. on Nov. 24. The first place he went from there was to the Midtown Hilton hotel where the murder would take place, according to authorities. Then he took a cab to a hostel on the Upper West Side.
He checked in under the fake name “Mark Rosario
The suspected gunman in UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s murder, believed to be Luigi Mangione, is seen flirting with a hostel employee on surveillance footage before the Dec. 4 shooting. (NYPD)
The entire rest of the time he spent in New York, the suspect ” was depicted using a cellphone,”
On the day of the murder, Dec. 4, Mangione allegedly left the hostel carrying a gray backpack and riding an electric bike around 5:35 a.m. Police used multiple surveillance cameras to track his route from the Upper West Side to the Midtown Hilton.
Around 5:41 a.m., Mangione was allegedly seen walking near the crime scene and making a purchase at a nearby coffee shop.
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At around 6:45 a.m., Thompson arrived outside the hotel. Mangione had allegedly been waiting for nearly an hour. He allegedly gunned down the victim, fled on foot to West 55th Street, got on the electric bike and rode north. He disappeared into Central Park for an unspecified time period and emerged near West 77th Street and Central Park West, riding the bike but without the gray backpack.
Just before 7 a.m., he ditched the bike, and within minutes hailed a taxi that drove him to the George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal in Upper Manhattan. A surveillance camera in the taxi took a picture of his masked face.
The suspect in the UnitedHealthcare CEO assassination, later identified as Luigi Mangione, pictured by a taxi cab’s security camera looking into the front from the passenger seat in the rear. (FBI)
