The fundraising campaign accused of killing New York United Healthcare CEO Luigi Mangione last year has raised more than $1 million. The fundraising campaign surpassed the milestone on Mangione's 27th birthday Tuesday as his legal defense attempted to obtain much evidence obtained by police when Mangione was arrested.
According to a press release from Givesendgo fundraisers, the $1 million comes from more than 28,000 individual contributions, with a median donation of about $20. Other fundraising activities began with more mainstream crowdfunding sites such as Gofundme being shut down for breach of its terms of service.
Mangione was accused of shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on the morning of December 4, 2024, when healthcare directors were walking to a meeting in Manhattan. Thompson's death was arrested on security camera footage at the Hilton Hotel in Midtown and kicked a raid next week before Mangione was arrested at McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
Police said Mangione was arrested with guns and the so-called “manifesto”, although the so-called declaration appears to have only 262 words. The note was made by independent journalist Ken Klippenstein [sic] They get rid of it. ”
The killing began a national conversation about the most expensive health care in the United States, while delivering some of the worst health outcomes in all wealthy countries. Many Americans sympathize and justify any killing of a healthcare CEO, while others say that while they don’t tolerate murders, they understand what would prompt someone to do so.
The latest legal application from Mangion’s defense team in the New York State case is a revelation. The defendant killer's lawyer said Pennsylvania police conducted an unassured search of Mangione's backpack, admitting that the case was verbally captured by BodyCam and then attempting to retroactively prove the search appropriately because they were concerned about potential explosives. The police then put that backpack (the police said there was a gun) in the patrol car for 11 minutes, where there was no body camera.
From shocking legal filings:
Officials, even after Mr. McDonald's backpack was in Mr. McDonald's backpack, even after he was evacuated from the restaurant and taken to the area by other officials, they still conducted an unguaranteed search in McDonald's backpack. While McDonald's continued search, Patrolman Wasser recovered a magazine of guns loaded with bullets. Now realize that she made a potentially devastating mistake by searching her backpack thoroughly of One of her murder suspects suddenly said she was searching for McDonald's backpack in a New York news case without a warrant. arrive Make sure there “no bomb or Put your backpack in front of the car here. of A few seconds later, when another McDonald's official said “Now We found [i.e., the loaded magazine]let's only Bring it back to the area. As “At this point, we may need a search warrant.” No bomb squad was asked to evacuate McDonald's and even look for bombs, patrol lady Wasser placed her backpack in her police car and brought it to the area.
Patrolman Wasser leaves McDonald's 10:04 a.m. The next camera lens without her body wear 11 minute As She drove to the area with her backpack. exist 10:16 one.M. , a minute after arriving in the area, patrol lady Wasser continued her unreasonable search of Backpack. Patrol lady Wasser first reopened the same backpack compartment she started searching at McDonald's, then immediately closed the compartment and opened the front compartment of Backpack As if She specializes in looking for things. Immediately, she “discovered” a pistol in the front compartment.
Mangione's lawyer also wrote that he had not read Miranda's rights, which violated the Fifth Amendment. They also hope to dismiss the terrorism charges because the grand jury “failed” arrive Create an MR. Mangione intends to intimidate or Coerce civilians and influence policies of One unit of government go through Intimidate or coerce or influencing behavior of One unit of government go through Murder, assassination or kidnapping. ”
Mangione faces state and federal charges. Donald Trump's appointment attorney general Pam Bondi has directed prosecutors to seek the death penalty.
“Luigi Mangione murdered an innocent man and father of two young children, Brian Thompson, a premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked the United States,” Bondy said in a statement last month. “After careful consideration, I directed federal prosecutors to seek death penalty in this case as we execute President Trump's agenda to stop violent crimes and keep America safe again.”
