Luigi Mangione Pleads Guilty to Stalking Charges Tied to Murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO
“I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan.”
Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty to stalking charges connected to the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City in 2024.
“I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan,” Mangione said in court. “I understood that my actions would place him in fear of death or bodily injury. I knew what I was doing was illegal.”
The judge told Mangione to tell the court why he is guilty:
He begins by saying that after years of enduring severe pain from an injured back and navigating the insurance system, he learned that UnitedHealthcare would be holding its annual investor conference in New York City on Dec. 4, 2024. Although the specific location was not publicly disclosed, he said, he researched the event online.
He says that he traveled to New York City and emailed UnitedHealthcare leadership, posing as an investor, to get information about the conference. He said he got a response within an hour.
Mangione said that he printed a gun with a 3-D printer and affixed it with a silencer.
U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York Jamie McDonald said the office has not entered into a plea agreement with Mangione.
McDonald’s office will seek life in prison.
Sentencing takes place on December 18.
The guilty plea means his lawyers could ask the state to dismiss charges against him, including second-degree murder. From Axios:
Why it matters: Mangione was facing a potential life sentence if convicted in a federal trial, and the guilty plea could mean his lawyers ask to dismiss separate state charges, including second-degree murder.
- Mangione’s legal team has argued that charging him in both federal and state courts constituted double jeopardy, a legal protection that prevents a person from being charged twice for the same offense.
- His trial over the two charges — interstate stalking resulting in death and stalking through use of interstate facilities resulting in death — was scheduled for January 2027. He had previously pleaded not guilty.
- During Friday’s hearing, the judge told Mangione he will still be required to serve up to 85% of his sentence for the federal charges. The date for his sentencing has not been announced.
Remember, Mangione still faces state charges as I mentioned above, including murder.
Mangione only faced two federal charges after a federal judge dropped two charges in January:
- Count Three: 18 U.S.C. § 924(j) – murder of Thompson through the use of a firearm during and in relation to the stalking crimes charged in Counts One and Two.
- Count Four: 18 U.S.C. § § 924(c)(1)(A)(i),(ii),(iii) and (c)(1)(B)(ii) – use of a firearm, which was brandished, discharged, and equipped with a silencer, during and in relation to the stalking crimes charged in Counts One and Two.
Mangione recently demanded the court livestream his murder trial. His lawyers wanted a list of the journalists covering the trial.
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If someone goes vigilante on this guy, it would be poetic justice.
They should take out his groupies too. So annoying.
Shoot them in the back and see how they enjoy it.
Let Feds go for civil rights or RICO (if possible) crimes and roll the dice that the Mayor doesn’t spring him.
“Mangione’s legal team has argued that charging him in both federal and state courts constituted double jeopardy, a legal protection that prevents a person from being charged twice for the same offense.”
Tell it to Stacey Koons. Tell it to Derek Chauvin.
Better yet, tell it to José Inez García-Zárate, the killer of Kate Steinle, whose crime most closely mirrors your own.
It’s straight up not double jeopardy. It’s two separate sovereigns trying him. This ain’t a thing.
Unless NY has some law that doesn’t allow them to try a criminal after the feds are done with him. Which, given how stupid NY is, they just might.
I disagree! The Constitution prohibits being charged for the same offense more that once, allowing different entities to repeat the charge violates that tenet.
Well, the Supreme Court disagrees with you. Sorry.
“Although the Supreme Court has been asked to overrule the dual sovereignty doctrine in a number of cases, it has repeatedly declined to do so.10 In 2019, in Gamble v. United States, the Court clarified that “where there are two sovereigns, there are two laws, and two ‘offences.’” 11 The Court asserted that this dual sovereignty doctrine was justified by historical understandings of the Double Jeopardy Clause.12 Observing that the Clause prohibits dual prosecution for the same “offence,” the Court explained that at the time the Constitution was written, an “offence” was defined as a violation of a particular law.13 In the Court’s view, two sovereigns will have two different laws, meaning that violations of those laws will be two different offenses.14 In Gamble, the Court emphasized that by 2019, the doctrine had been applied in “a chain of precedent linking dozens of cases over 170 years.” 15”
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/amendment-5/dual-sovereignty-doctrine
NY does have a law that states you can’t be put on trial twice for the same charge. So NY can’t charge him for the same offenses he was charged in federal court.
New York Criminal Procedure Law § 40.20 says:
§ 40.30 says:
So, in general, NY law rejects the dual sovereignty doctrine. Once someone has been prosecuted in federal court, or in some other state’s court, they can’t then be prosecuted again for the same offense in a NY court.
There are exceptions, including one legislated during the first Trump administration that is narrowly targeted at people who have a presidential pardon from a federal conviction or trial, and who were closely connected to the president who gave the pardon. For what it’s worth, the New York Civil Liberties Union, a quite left-wing organization, lobbied against this legislation, arguing that “But Trump” is not a valid reason to undermine an important protection of civil liberties.
Query whether this is the same offense. The federal charges are for stalking — planning and travelling to another state to commit a crime of intimidation against an individual (including killing them). Presumably murder would be for pulling the trigger.
While there is overlap here, the core conduct is fairly different.
Look at the list of exceptions in § 40.20 and see how well this case can be fitted into one of them.
“ said he traveled to Manhattan and emailed the company posing as an investor managing $58 billion and got information about the location within an hour, then printed a gun with a 3-D printer
Daily mail
Imagine the idiot who emailed this murderer
They are trying to get him in a federal prison and avoid the harsher prison in the state
Wait! He can’t be guilty! He’s too dReaMy! 🥰
Luigi needs a dirt nap.
Again it’s lawyers earning their money. Plead guilty to the federal charge and hope for a non life sentence. Then fight it out in NYS Supreme Court in a motion to dismiss the state charges, citing NYS strict double jeopardy laws on closely related crimes. If successful, he could probably be out in 20 years.
At this point, I hope the judge sentences Magione to life in prison.
Also, if the NYS charges are dismissed on double jeopardy grounds, he stands the possibility of getting a commutation from a DSA President, even if he gets a life sentence.
Back in 1952, when health insurance and government intervention was in its infancy, you would go to a private practicing doctor who worked out of a converted home on Main Street. Your visit would cost 3-5 dollars cash. In today’s money, that would be $50-60. The doctor may have had at most a nurse and a receptionist working for him. Today, a doctor’s visit is usually somewhere north of $300. The additional money goes into the pockets of a never ending line of administrators and government bureaucrats who “claim” they are saving you money.
While this is no reason to justify violence, it supports a good case to go back to the old ways of providing healthcare where we pay the doctor directly with cash and get unnecessary overhead out of the system.
Many psychiatrists don’t take insurance.
Some Physical Therapy Clinics will allow you to directly purchase time.
Neither is cheap.
Statement from the defense implying that Mangione had suffered excruciating pain for years, and thus he had good reason to murder Thompson was tasteless and incredibly stupid. May Mangione rot in jail for the rest of his life.
This POS stalked a Father, Husband and Son and shot him in the back. He didn’t have the courage to face Mr. Thompson. He is a coward and deserves the death penalty.
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