New York – Six weeks before CEO of UnitedHarse Brian Thompson He was shot dead outside a Manhattan hotel in December, the suspect Luigi Mangione reflected on rebelling against “the mortal and greedy health insurance poster” and said that killing the executive “transmits to a greedy bastard that made him come,” the prosecutors revealed Wednesday.
The Manhattan District Prosecutor’s Office widely cited Mangione’s handwritten newspaper, highlighting his desire to kill an insurance honcho and praise for Ted Kaczynski, the Unabombero, while fighting to understand their positions of state murder. They also cited a confession that they say he wrote “to the federals”, in which he wrote that “he had to be done.”
Mangione’s lawyers want the state case to be issued, arguing in judicial documents that these positions and a parallel case of federal death penalty equals a double danger.
They also want state terrorism charges to be dismissed, have requested that the federal case be first and say that prosecutors should be prohibited the use of evidence collected during Mangione’s arrest, including A 9 mm gunstatements to the police and the newspaper.
Manhattan prosecutors argue that there are no double danger problems because none of the cases has gone to trial and because state and federal prosecutions involve different legal theories.
His lawyers say that has created a “legal quagmire” that makes him “legal and logistically impossible to defend themselves simultaneously.”
The state positions, which carry a maximum of life imprisonment, claim that Mangione wanted to “intimidate or force a civilian population”, that is, employees and insurance investors. Federal charges claim that Mangione stalk an individual, Thompson, and does not involve terrorist accusations.
Mangione, 27, declared himself innocent in both cases. No test dates have been established.
Mangione ‘intentions were obvious to their actions, but their writings serve to make these intentions explicit, “prosecutors said in Wednesday’s presentation. The writings, which sometimes described as a manifesto, “transmit a clear message: that the murder of Brian Thompson intended to achieve a revolutionary change to the health industry.”
They cited extracts in which Mangione discussed the options for the attack, such as bombing the headquarters of Unitedhealthcare, before deciding to point to the company’s investor conference in Manhattan. He wrote about plans to “leave the CEO in the annual convention of parasitic beans” counters “because it was” directed, precise and does not risk innocent. “
UnitedHealthcare, the largest Health Insurer in the United States, “literally extracts the human life force for money,” Mangione wrote, imagining the headline of the news, “Insurance CEO killed in the annual investor conference.”
The company has said that it was never a customer.
Mangione must return to the State Court on June 26, when Judge Gregory Caro is expected to decide his request for dismissal.
Their lawyers on Tuesday asked for their wives and their bulletproof vest were eliminated during the audience. They called him “a model prisoner, a defendant model” and said that security measures would suggest the possible jurors that is dangerous. Car has not ruled that.
The next date of the Federal Court of Mangione is December 5, one day after the first anniversary of Thompson’s death.
The surveillance video showed a masked gunman shooting Thompson from behind when he arrived for the conference on December 4 at the New York Hilton Midtown. Police say “delay”, “deny” and “leave” were scribbled in ammunition, imitating a phrase commonly used to describe How insurers avoid paying claims.
Mangione was arrested on December 9 at an McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, 230 miles (approximately 370 kilometers) west, and is detained in a federal prison in Brooklyn.
Manhattan’s district prosecutor Alvin Bragg, called the ambush “a murder that was intended to evoke terror.”
The United States Attorney General Pam Bondi announced in April that he was ordering federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty for “an act of political violence” and a “premeditated and cold blood murder that shocked the United States.”
The search for murders and consequent Mangione shook the business community while galvanizing health insurance critics who gathered around them as a substitute For frustrations about coverage denials and strong invoices. The supporters have made their appearances in court and flooded it with mail.
Mangione “demonstrated in his manifest that he was a revolutionary anarchist who would introduce a better health system by killing CEO” of one of the largest American companies, prosecutors wrote. “This brutal cowardly murder was the mechanism that the defendant chose to cause that revolution.”
