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Shayna Jacobs
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will seek a governor’s warrant to extradite Luigi Mangione, an office spokesperson said. This reflects the normal process if a defendant in another state resists voluntary extradition.

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Bizarre reason why McDonald's worker might not receive $60,000 reward for identifying Luigi Mangione
The strict rules could mean the tipster might not even get a dime
Olivia Bridge

The McDonald's restaurant employee who helped police trace a suspect in connection with the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare's CEO could be shortchanged out of the hefty $60,000 reward.

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The tip-off from the employee is apparently crucial in the case, but the question remains if the worker will be able to cash in on the $60k reward at all.The rules are complicated, as they stipulate tipsters in with a chance of the FBI portion of the reward cannot nominate themselves.

This means the McDonald's worker will have to be put forward by an investigating agency, such as the Department of Defense or the FBI, which is then reviewed by an interagency committee.

If approved, the suggestion is passed on to the Secretary of State, who signs off on the final decision.

If that's not tough enough, the full reward amount could also be in dispute as payment amounts are based on factors from the value of the information provided, the level of threat, the severity of danger or injury to people or property, and the degree of the source's cooperation.

As for the NYPD's $10k, the rewards program is granted through Crime Stoppers, where tipsters receive a unique reference number.

This number is crucial as the tipster has to use it call back or check the status of the investigation online before lodging a claim with the NYC Police Foundation and the Crime Stoppers Board of Directors, who ultimately decide whether to approve the tip and instruct the caller how to receive it.

So, if the informant called 911 instead of Crime Stoppers, they might be unable to make the claim.

In both cases, the rewards will only be paid out if the arrest leads to indictment or conviction from the court - so the McDonald's employee could be waiting a while and even at the end of it all, might not even get a dime.

https://www.unilad.com/news/us-news/lui ... 2-20241210

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Mueller, She Wrote
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THREAD: Since a lot of folks are noting that they found Mangione a lot faster than they found the J6 pipe bomber, I thought I'd remind everyone about a few crucial tidbits about the pipe bomber investigation. 1/

First, do y'all remember how Trump's DHS Inspector General hid the fact that the Secret Service deleted their text messages from Congress until it was too late to recover them? That IG's name is Cuffari. He wrote up the report on the pipe bomber. 2/

Jamie Raskin has sent a letter to Biden asking him to fire Cuffari for lying to Congress about being previously swept up in a federal investigation into his conduct as a law enforcement officer. But that's not all. 3/

You know how I always talk about how trump holdovers in the FBI hamstrung Garland's early probe into Donald Trump in 2021 by refusing to execute his search warrants on members of Congress and architects of the coup? So much so that Garland went to the post office cops to get his warrants? 4/

Well, that guy - named D'Antuono - testified to congress that *somehow*, the geolocation data for the cell phone carried by the pipe bomber was "corrupted," and that's why they couldn't catch him. Weird. 5/

So two of the people involved in this were Trump holdovers at the FBI and DHS that are basically giant piles of (expletive). But I'm sure it's a total coincidence. </sarcasm> END/

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Brad Heath
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Remember the FBI informant who claimed President Biden took millions in bribes from Burisma?

He admitted today in federal court that he made the whole thing up.

And that he started spinning new lies after meeting with Russian intelligence.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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He will be pardoned, and rewarded, by Tiny.
A well thought plan.

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Lawyer of suspect in healthcare exec killing explains client’s outburst at jail
Thomas Dickey said Luigi Mangione was irritated about his treatment and lack of representation but is calmer now


Luigi Mangione attends an extradition hearing at the Blair county courthouse in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday. Photograph: Eduardo Muñoz/Reuters

Ed Pilkington
Thu 12 Dec 2024 17.03 CET
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Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old suspect in the New York murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is agitated and irritated about his treatment since he was arrested on Monday and held in a Pennsylvania jail, according to his lawyer.

Thomas Dickey, a veteran Pennsylvania trial lawyer who began representing Mangione on Tuesday, said that his client’s angry outburst as he was being led into an extradition hearing earlier this week was a product of his frustration.

“He’s irritated, agitated about what’s happening to him and what he’s being accused of,” the attorney told CNN.

Mangione cried out cryptic words when he was outside the Blair county, Pennsylvania, courthouse where he faces extradition to New York on murder and other charges. Dressed in an orange jumpsuit, he shouted out: “It’s completely out of touch and an insult to the intelligence of the American people and their lived experience!”

Dickey said Mangione’s anger was in part because of his lack of legal representation until that moment. After the lawyer and Mangione met, his demeanor changed, Dickey told CNN.

“Look at the difference between when he went in and when he came out, once he … finally had legal representation and now he has a spokesperson and someone that’s going to fight for him.”

Thompson, 50, was killed on 4 December in midtown Manhattan as he was walking to attend UnitedHealthcare’s annual investors’ meeting. The commissioner of the New York police department, Jessica Tisch, announced that detectives had made a positive match between the ghost gun that the suspect had in his possession when he was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and three 9mm shell casings at the murder scene.

The casings had the words “delay”, “deny” and “depose” written on them in a possible echo of a 2010 book criticizing the healthcare insurance industry titled Delay, Deny, Defend.

Tisch has also said that police have made a match between Mangione’s fingerprints and those retrieved from a water bottle and snack bar wrapper found at the crime scene.

Dickey has questioned the credibility of police statements, urging the public to keep an open mind about his client. He told CNN that until he had seen the evidence and had a chance to interrogate it, such claims should be treated with caution.

The match between the gun and the shell casings was made on the basis of fingerprints and ballistics, he said. “Those two sciences, in and of themselves, have come under some criticism in the past, relative to their credibility, their truthfulness, their accuracy.”

On the evidence, he said: “As lawyers, we need to see it. We need to see: how did they collect it? How much of it? And then we would have our experts … take a look at that, and then we would challenge its admissibility and challenge the accuracy of those results.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... s-outburst

The lawyer told him to STFU and he did.

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Luigi Mangione retains high-powered New York attorney as he faces second-degree murder charge
By Kaitlan Collins, CNN

Published 8:58 PM EST, Fri December 13, 2024


Karen Friedman Agnifilo CNN

(CNN)
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Luigi Mangione has retained a high-powered New York attorney to represent him as he faces a second-degree murder charge in the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, CNN has learned.

Karen Friedman Agnifilo will represent him in New York. Friedman Agnifilo previously worked as the chief assistant district attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office under Cyrus Vance Jr. for seven years and is a veteran with deep experience in New York City’s criminal justice system. She has worked in private practice since 2021.

“She’s got as much experience as any human being, especially in the state court,” one longtime New York prosecutor told CNN. “She knows every corridor, every judge, every clerk in the courthouse.”

Friedman Agnifilo, who previously served as a CNN legal analyst, declined to comment.

Mangione’s new attorney will be taking on his case as investigators have amassed new evidence in recent days, with police telling CNN this week the 3D-printed gun he had on him when he was arrested matches the three shell casings found at the crime scene in Midtown Manhattan. His fingerprints also matched those investigators found on items near the scene.

The fingerprint and firearms disclosures come as authorities dig into Mangione, who remains in custody in Pennsylvania on gun-related charges as he fights extradition to New York. As of Friday, however, there were indications Mangione “may waive” his extradition next week, according to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

Pennsylvania state Judge Dave Consiglio denied Mangione bail on Tuesday related to both state dockets, saying he would remain at the Huntingdon State Correctional Institution.

Mangione is also facing four other charges, including one count of forging a document and criminally possessing a firearm.

His attorney in Pennsylvania has declined to say if Mangione’s prominent Baltimore family is fronting his legal bills, though Thomas Dickey told CNN this week members of the public had offered to contribute.

A representative for Friedman Agnifilo declined to comment on who is paying his legal fees.

With Mangione fighting extradition, a Pennsylvania court has given him 14 days to file for writ of habeas corpus – putting the burden of proof on those detaining the person to justify the detention – and a hearing will be scheduled if he does.

Pennsylvania prosecutors have 30 days to get a governor’s warrant, which New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said she will work with prosecutors to sign and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro “is prepared to sign and process … promptly as soon as it is received.”

Blair County District Attorney Peter Weeks said his office is prepared “to do what’s necessary” to get Mangione back to New York.

Dickey has denied his client’s involvement in the killing in New York and anticipates he will plead not guilty there to the murder charge, among other counts. Mangione also plans to plead not guilty to Pennsylvania charges related to a gun and fake ID police say they found when they arrested him in Altoona, Dickey said.

The suspect appeared to be driven by anger against the health insurance industry and against “corporate greed” as a whole, according to an NYPD intelligence report obtained Tuesday by CNN.

“He appeared to view the targeted killing of the company’s highest-ranking representative as a symbolic takedown and a direct challenge to its alleged corruption and ‘power games,’ asserting in his note he is the ‘first to face it with such brutal honesty,’” says the NYPD assessment, which was based on Mangione’s “manifesto” and social media.

Along with a three-page handwritten “claim of responsibility” found on Mangione when he was taken into custody, investigators are looking at the suspect’s writing in a spiral notebook, a law enforcement source briefed on the matter told CNN.

CNN’s John Miller contributed to this report.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/13/us/l ... index.html

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Molly Crane-Newman
‪@mollycranenewman.bsky.social‬
News: Manhattan Judge Dale Ho has DENIED Mayor Adams’ motion to dismiss the bribery count in his federal corruption case, finding “the indictment is sufficiently pleaded, and dismissal is not warranted.”



Reached for comment, Adams’ lawyer Alex Spiro said the case “is so contrived that it took several months for the court to unwind its legal theories, questioning several of them in its ruling—and proving the point that this case was simply invented to harm Mayor Adams and not about justice at all.”

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Molly Crane-Newman
‪@mollycranenewman.bsky.social‬
Breaking: A Manhattan grand jury has indicted Luigi Mangione on first-degree murder, second-degree murder as a crime of terrorism, and nine other offenses linked to the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

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The indictment alleges Mangione “intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, influence the policies of a unit of government by intimidation or coercion, and affect the conduct of a unit of government by murder, assassination or kidnapping.”

At a press conference, DA Bragg just said murder 2 as a crime of terrorism carries a mandatory sentence of life without parole with “no discretion for the judge at all.”

NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said on 12/7, Mangione’s mom told cops vetting a tip that he could be the shooter

“They had a conversation where she didn’t indicate that it was her son in the photographs, but she said it might be something that she could see him doing”

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Weeeeelllll... txs, mom!

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David Mack‬ ‪@davidmackau.bsky.social‬
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the feds: stop trying to turn this guy into some cool antihero with a badass public image

also the feds: *treat him like they’ve captured the joker*

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Inner City Press
‪@innercitypress.bsky.social‬

Luigi Mangione has been brought in by US Marshals, in a black quarter-zip sweater. He sits between his lawyer Karen Friedman Agnifilo and her husband (Sean Combs' laywer) Marc Agnifilo. Now waiting for Magistrate Judge Katharine H. Parker. Drum roll
December 19, 2024 at 2:58 PM

All rise!
Magistrate Judge Parker: Good afternoon everyone. Mr. Mangione, you have been arrested based on charges filed against you in a complaint.
[Here, on Inner City Press' DocumentCloud: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Judge Parker: You have the right to be released until I find there are no conditions that would assure your presence at future court proceedings or the safety of the community. You have the right to hire your own lawyer, as you have done. Do you understand?
Yes.

Judge Parker: You are charged with stalking then killing Brian Thompson. You used interstate facilities. You are charged with murder with use of a firearm: you shot and killed Brian Thompson. Also, use of a firearm in a crime of violence. Is a reading waived?
Yes

Judge Parker: What is the government's position on bail?
AUSA Domenic Gentile: We are prepared to argue for detention.
Mangione's lawyer Karen Friedman Agnifilo: We consent to detention without prejudice to make a future bail application.

AUSA Gentile: The Manhattan DA has also indicted the defendant, we are in touch with them.
Judge Parker: Anything furthur?
Mangione's lawyer Karen Friedman Agnifilo: This is unusual. Yesterday the Manhattan DA held a press conference. There was no mention of this

Karen Friedman Agnifilo: The theories are inconsistent. The charge here is death eligible. Is it a joint investigation? If so it triggers discovery obligations. It is confusing. I've never seen this.
Judge: Mr. Gentile?
AUSA Gentile: There was a lot there.

AUSA Gentile: We will address any legal argument - in the appropriate forum.
Judge Parker: I advise the parties to speak after this proceeding about the logistics between the Federal and State proceedings...

Judge: Adjourned.

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U.S. Files Murder Charge Against Mangione That Could Bring Death Penalty
Federal authorities filed a total of four counts against Luigi Mangione, who is accused of killing Brian Thompson, the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare.


Luigi Mangione was flown from Pennsylvania to New York, where he was guarded by a phalanx of officers and Mayor Eric Adams.Credit...Alan Chin for The New York Times

By Benjamin Weiser
Dec. 19, 2024
Updated 6:12 p.m. ET

Federal prosecutors on Thursday unsealed a murder case against the suspect in the shooting of UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive, holding out the possibility of the death penalty even after a trial on separate state charges.

The federal criminal complaint against the suspect, Luigi Mangione, 26, includes one count of using a firearm to commit murder, which carries a maximum potential sentence of death, along with two stalking counts and a firearms offense.

It came two days after the Manhattan district attorney filed state murder and terror charges against Mr. Mangione in the killing of the executive, Brian Thompson. Mr. Thompson, 50, was gunned down on a Manhattan sidewalk this month.

The highest penalty Mr. Mangione could face if convicted in state court would be life in prison without parole.

Mr. Mangione was brought back to the city on Thursday after an extradition hearing in Pennsylvania, shackled and escorted by a phalanx of law enforcement officers. Mayor Eric Adams and top police officials joined the dramatic tableau.

The federal complaint, which is dated Wednesday, accuses Mr. Mangione of traveling across state lines — from Atlanta to the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York, where he arrived shortly after 10 p.m. on Nov. 24 — to stalk and ultimately kill Mr. Thompson, which would give the federal government jurisdiction to prosecute him.

Mr. Mangione was taken Thursday afternoon before a federal magistrate judge in Manhattan, who advised him of his rights. His lawyer, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, did not ask for bail.

Edward Y. Kim, the acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in a statement that Mr. Mangione had traveled to the city to stalk and shoot Mr. Thompson “all in a grossly misguided attempt to broadcast Mangione’s views across the country.

“But this wasn’t a debate, it was murder,” said Mr. Kim, who announced the charges with James E. Dennehy, head of the F.B.I.’s New York office, and Jessica S. Tisch, the New York police commissioner.

Mr. Kim said that the state prosecution by the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, is expected to proceed to trial before the federal case. Mr. Bragg’s office said in a statement that it was coordinating with federal law enforcement agencies.

In court, Mr. Mangione, wearing a dark quarter-zip sweater over a white dress shirt, khaki pants and ankle shackles, sat quietly between Ms. Agnifilo and her husband and co-counsel, Marc Agnifilo. Mr. Mangione spoke only briefly at the 15-minute hearing, answering “yes” when the judge, Katharine H. Parker, asked if he understood his rights and the charges, and if he had seen a copy of the complaint.

At times, Mr. Mangione cocked his head, looked down at papers and ran his fingers through his curly hair, which appeared newly cut.

In court, Ms. Agnifilo made it clear to the judge that she was unhappy at what she called a “highly unusual situation.” She noted that when the district attorney’s office announced charges against Mr. Mangione this week there was “absolutely no mention that Mr. Mangione was going to be charged federally.”

She said she had been prepared to appear in state court at 2 p.m. on Thursday for Mr. Mangione’s arraignment. “I find out today all of a sudden we are here,” in federal court, with her client facing charges including one that carries a potential death penalty.

She also called Mr. Mangione’s situation confusing. She said the state’s argument that Mr. Mangione committed terrorism that would have an impact on many people and the federal charge of stalking a single person appeared to be in conflict.

“I’d like to seek clarity from the government,” she said.

A prosecutor, Dominic A. Gentile, responded that the government was prepared to address any legal argument in the proper forum. Judge Parker asked that the two sides meet after the proceeding, to discuss the state and federal actions.

The federal and state prosecutions would continue in parallel, though the trials would be staggered. The federal case could take much longer to reach trial, thanks to the complexities of death penalty litigation. The ultimate decision to seek the death penalty if Mr. Mangione is convicted would rest with the attorney general, presumably one appointed by President-elect Donald J. Trump.

The new federal charges came just over two weeks after the predawn killing of Mr. Thompson on Dec. 4.

Surveillance footage showed a gunman approaching Mr. Thompson outside a Hilton hotel in Midtown Manhattan, lifting a handgun fitted with a suppressor and firing at him several times before fleeing.

The authorities have said the suspect then fled uptown on an e-bike and soon left New York.

The complaint includes images of what it says was the shooter traveling to and from the scene of the killing in the early morning. One image shows him at about 5:35 a.m., walking while wearing a gray backpack; in another, he is riding an e-bike down Central Park West to a location near the Hilton in Midtown.


The indictment contained surveillance pictures of the suspect cycling through Manhattan’s streets at dawn.Credit...United States District Court Southern District of New York

Other images in the complaint show him after the killing, which occurred around 6:45 a.m. One shows the shooter, after he fled on foot to West 55th Street and mounted an e-bike, riding toward Central Park. Another shows him leaving the park near West 77th Street and Central Park West, riding north. In that image, he is no longer carrying the gray backpack.

Mr. Mangione was arrested on Dec. 9 in a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pa., as he was eating hash browns and looking at his laptop. A fellow customer had told a friend that the patron resembled the person in photos that the police had shared widely, and an employee, overhearing the conversation, called the police.

On Thursday, Mr. Mangione appeared at the courthouse in Hollidaysburg, Pa., arriving handcuffed and clad an orange jumpsuit for an extradition hearing that he did not contest. His journey to New York was swift. Just after noon, Mr. Mangione landed at Long Island MacArthur Airport in Ronkonkoma; he was led into a Police Department helicopter that took off 23 minutes later, according to Flightradar24, a flight tracking website, and arrived at Downtown Manhattan Heliport.

When he disembarked, Mr. Mangione was immediately surrounded by at least 40 police officers and F.B.I. agents, as well as Mr. Adams, who himself has been indicted by the Southern District on corruption charges. He has pleaded not guilty. Also present were Commissioner Tisch and Joseph Kenny, the chief of detectives who spearheaded the Mangione investigation — a rare entourage.

Thursday’s federal criminal complaint charging Mr. Mangione provides new details about a notebook found with him when he was arrested. The notebook, separate from a short note addressed to “feds” that the authorities later described as a manifesto, expressed “hostility towards the health insurance industry and wealthy executives in particular” across several handwritten pages, the complaint said.

In an entry marked “8/15” — apparently written in August, months before the shooting — a notebook entry said “the details are finally coming together,” adding that the writer was glad to have procrastinated because it had left time to learn more about UnitedHealthcare, according to the complaint.

Two months later, on Oct. 22, another notebook entry described an upcoming investor conference as “a true windfall” — and went on to describe an intent to “wack” the chief executive of an insurance company.

The description in the entry corresponds with the date of the UnitedHealthcare investor meeting Mr. Thompson was attending when he was killed.

Reporting was contributed by Lola Fadulu, William K. Rashbaum, Chelsia Rose Marcius, Hurubie Meko, Jefferson Siegel and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs.

A correction was made on Dec. 19, 2024: A previous version of this story misstated the timing of state charges against Luigi Mangione. They came two days ago, not one.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/nyre ... arges.html

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That's the NYC mayor over Mangione's right shoulder. He is not police commissioner. I don't know why he's there.

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The comment about treating him like he is The Joker is a great one.
Yep, this kid needs all that fire power around him, when he is detained. In another comic reference, as if he were Bane.