Luigi Mangione latest: Top New York attorney tapped by defense as new details emerge on how suspect fled to Pennsylvania
Karen Friedman Agnifilo to represent suspect as he faces second-degree murder charge while donations pour into GiveSendGo fundraiser and GoFundMe reportedly takes down another
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A top New York City attorney has been hired to represent Luigi Mangione in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Karen Friedman Agnifilo will be representing Mangione in New York. The suspect is also facing charges in Pennsylvania and is currently fighting extradition to New York, CNN reported. Police sources believe Mangione took a train to Pennsylvania, where he was captured on Monday.
Agnifilo has worked in private practice since 2021 and has experience in New York City’s criminal justice system. She spent seven years as the chief assistant district attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
Mangione’s supporters are donating thousands of dollars for “defense funds” that have been established for him. Amid fears the shooting suspect is being turned into a martyr, several fundraisers have been set up for him online, with one created by anonymous group ‘The December 4th Legal Committee’ surpassing more than $90,000 in donations on the crowdfunding website GiveSendGo by Saturday.
The group’s name is an apparent reference to the day the 26-year-old allegedly gunned down Mr Thompson in Midtown Manhattan.
Other campaigns soliciting donations for Mangione’s defense have been taken down by sites, such as GoFundMe, reported ABC News.
What you should know about Luigi Mangione
Luigi Mangione has been charged with murder in connection to the death of the UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside his Manhattan hotel on December 4.
Mangione, 26, was spotted eating a meal inside a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on Monday morning, with an employee calling the tip into police.
He is currently being held in a Pennsylvania jail without bond as he awaits extradition to New York where he faces a murder charge. He also faces charges for gun law violations in Pennsylvania.
Read the full piece below.
Who is Luigi Mangione? What to know about murder suspect in CEO shooting
Mangione has been denied bail and is fighting extradition after being charged with murder in New York in connection with Brian Thompson’s death
‘ONE LESS CEO’ road sign spotted on busy highway
A disturbing sign was spotted on Highway 99 near Dexter Avenue North in Seattle, Washington, on Thursday.
The sign, which was captured by a KOMO News photographer, flashed between “one less CEO” and “many more to go,” in an apparent jibe at Brian Thompson, the slain UnitedHealthcare chief executive.
It does not belong to a government entity such as the Seattle Department of Transportation, the outlet says.
Life inside Luigi Mangione’s maximum security prison
Luigi Mangione is being held under maximum security conditions at the State Correctional Institution Huntingdon in Pennsylvania, according to correction officials.
Mangione, 26, does not get to interact with any other inmates and is in a cell by himself, however, he is not in solitary confinement, officials told CBS News. They said that he has not yet had outside time, before adding that he will eventually.
He has not been violent and is not under suicide watch or any psychological order, the officials said.
Mangione’s fellow prison inmates have called for his release claiming his “conditions suck”. The outlet spoke exclusively to those incarcerated along with the shooting suspect at his prison.
Mangione doesn’t have a TV in his cell and is forced to eat the prison’s “terrible” food, which includes fruit, grits, scrambled eggs and “porcupine meatballs” for lunch – which are actually made from beef, according to the NewsNation.
“Luigi’s conditions suck,” inmates shouted to correspondent Alex Caprariello from their cells in a segment aired on Thursday. “Free Luigi.”
Watch: McDonald’s tightens security at Pennsylvania restaurant where Mangione was arrested
Woman charged after threatening health insurer with ‘delay, deny, depose’
A Florida woman was charged after threatening a health insurer with the phrase “Delay, Deny, Depose” – which was carved onto the spent rounds at the scene were UnitedHealthcare CEO, Brian Thompson, was shot dead.
Briana Boston, 42, was arrested at her Lakeland home on Tuesday after allegedly making threats on a call to BlueCross BlueShield regarding the denial of a recent medical insurance claim, according to WFLA.
She was charged with one count of written threat to kill or injure in connection to conducting a mass shooting or an act of terrorism.”
“Delay, deny, depose. You people are next,” the mom-of-three said in a recorded conversation to a telephone operator, according to Lakeland police.
When officers arrived at her home, she told them that “healthcare companies played games and deserved karma from the world because they are evil”.
According to the news station, Boston said she does not own any firearms and told cops “was not a danger to anyone”.
The gunman who murdered Thompson in a horror early morning shooting a week ago left behind the cryptic message at the scene, carving the three words “depose,” “deny,” and “defend” into the live rounds and shell casings near the scene.
The three words bear a striking resemblance to a professor of law at Rutgers Law School Jay Feinman’s 2010 book: Delay, Deny, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don’t Pay Claim and What You Can Do About It.
‘Free Luigi’ poster hangs outside Brian Thompson’s murder scene
California police had identified Luigi Mangione four days before arrest
California police had identified the UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting suspect as Luigi Mangione and alerted the FBI four days before he was eventually arrested in Pennsylvania, according to a report.
An officer in the San Francisco Police Department’s Special Victims Unit is said to have tipped off the bureau on December 5 after recognizing Mangione in images circulated by the NYPD, sources told the San Francisco Chronicle.
Mangione had actually been on the radar of San Francisco authorities two weeks prior to the December 4 shooting of Brian Thompson.
Mangione’s mother, Kathleen Mangione, had reported her son missing on November 18 after the family had been unable to contact him since July 1, the sources told the Chronicle.
An acquaintance told The New York Times the suspect had lost touch with friends and family after undergoing major surgery for debilitating, chronic back pain in July 2023.
James Liddell has the details.
California police identified CEO shooting suspect Luigi Mangione days before arrest
Luigi Mangione’s mother had reported her son missing to California police two weeks before the shooting of Brian Thompson
Luigi Mangione to attend court hearing in two weeks
Luigi Mangione is due to appear in court in just over two weeks time.
The hearing is scheduled at the Blair County Courthouse in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, at 1 p.m. on December 30.
It is to consider Mangione’s petitions for writ of habeas corpus – an inquiry concerning his detention – and imposition at the Blair County Courthouse in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania.
It comes as Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and Blair County District Attorney Peter Weeks are working to get Mangione to New York as he fights extradition.
Polymarket starts taking bets on Luigi Mangione’s future
Betting platform Polymarket started taking bets on Luigi Mangione’s future after the 26-year-old was charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
The bets started appearing on the website on Monday shortly after Mangione was arrested in a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on gun charges, according to Forbes.
The betting platform surged in popularity during the 2024 presidential election, when gamblers spent more than $3.3 billion guessing the results.
Rhian Lubin has the full story.
Polymarket starts taking bets on Luigi Mangione’s future
The bets started appearing on the website shortly after Mangione was arrested in a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania
Mangione’s defense fund surpasses $70k
More than $70,000 has been raised to pay for Luigi Mangione’s legal bills as he faces charges in both Pennsylvania and New York.
The December 4th Legal Committee launched the public appeal on Christian fundraising site GiveSendGo, which garnered the vast sum after the 26-year-old was changed in Altoona, Pennsylvania on Monday. The fundraiser has a goal of $200,000.
“We are dedicated to ensuring that he gets a fair trial with competent legal counsel,” said Carol Sherman, an organizer with the December 4th Legal Committee.
The group says that proceeds will go to “other political prisoners in the US” if Mangione’s charges are dropped, or he rejects the funds.