Luigi Mangione was accused on Thursday of the federal allegation of murder in the murder of the general director of Unitedhealthare Brian Thompson, the required step, when prosecutors are working on the order of Trump's administration to look for the death penalty for what he calls “the premeditation, a cool murder that shocked America.”
The indictment of Mangione, returned by a large federal jury in Manhattan, covers the murder of a firearm with a firearm, which has the possibility of death penalty. The indictment, which reflects the criminal complaint brought after the arrest of Mangione in December last year, will also accuse him of persecution and crime with weapons.
His lawyers argued that the announcement of the US prosecutor Pam Bondi this month to order prosecutors to apply for the death penalty was a “political feat”, which ruined the trial of the great jury and deprived him of his constitutional right to a proper trial.
The 26-year-old graduate of Ivy League from the outstanding family Maryland Real Estate stands in the face of separate federal and state allegations of murder after the authorities claim that he shot Thompson, 50, in front of the Hotel in Manhattan December 4, when the director arrived at the annual Unitedhealthare investor conference.
Video from supervision showed a masked gunslinger shooting Thompson from behind. The police say that the words “delay”, “refusal” and “depose” were thrown into ammunition, imitating the sentence commonly used to describe how insurers avoid paying claims.
The murder and the following five -day search leading to the arrest of Mangione shaken the business community, and some health insurers removed the photos of the management from their websites and the transition to meetings of online shareholders. At the same time, some health insurance critics gathered around Mangione as a position of frustration related to denying insurance and high medical accounts.
Rapid date
The federal indictment of Mangione took place just before the date on Friday for prosecutors to either submit one or look for delays. It was not clear when he was taken to a federal court in Manhattan to accuse.
A crowd of people, many supporters, came to the court in New York, where Luigi Mangione did not plead guilty of the murder and first degree terrorism after the death of the general director of Unitedhealthcare Brian Thompson.
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Bondi Announced on April 1 that he manages the Federal Prosecutors in Manhattan to apply for the death penalty against Mangione. For the first time, the Department of Justice stated that he was implementing the death penalty, because President Donald Trump returned to the office on January 20 with a swore of resumption of federal executions after they were suspended under the previous administration.
In her announcement, Bondi described the murder of Thompson as a “act of political violence.”
Mangione lawyer, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, replied in a later court that “the United States government intends to kill Mr. Mangione as a political feat.” He wants prosecutors to block themselves from looking for a death penalty.
Friedman Agnifilo and her joint factor argued that the announcement of Bondi-after which there were posts on her Instagram account and a television performance-the abundant protocols of the Department of Justice and the “unjustified” trial of the great jury, which eventually led to his accusation.
Mangione remains locked in a federal prison in Brooklyn. His state allegations carry a maximum punishment in prison.
Prosecutors said that two cases will continue on parallel tracks, and the state case will first be at the trial.
It was not clear at once whether the indictment of Mangione would change the order.
Glutton He was arrested On December 9 in Altooon, Penn., About 370 kilometers west of New York and started to Manhattan by plane and helicopter.
The police said that Mangione has a pistol that suited the one he used in the shooting and other items, including a notebook in which he claims that he expressed hostility towards the health insurance industry and wealthy management.
Among the entries, according to prosecutors, was one of August 2024, which said “the goal is insurance” because he “checks every field” and one of the October, which describes the intention of “crazy” the general director of the insurance company. Unitedhealthare, the largest health insurer in the USA, said that Mangione is never a customer.
Friedman Agnifilo said he would try to suppress some evidence.