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UnitedHealthcare CEO murder: Death penalty on the table for suspect Luigi Mangione who faces federal charges
Luigi Mangione, the suspect accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Dec. 4 in Manhattan, was extradited Thursday from Pennsylvania back to New York, where he faces state and now federal charges.
Mangione, 26, was flown out of Pennsylvania on Thursday to face murder charges in New York. He landed at a Long Island airport, where a New York Police Department helicopter took him to Manhattan on Thursday afternoon.
Mangione could potentially face the death penalty if federal prosecutors decide to pursue that route, though the last execution in New York was in 1963, according to Ret. NYPD Det. Teresa Leto.
“The likelihood is slim,” Leto said, adding: “I’d be shocked…but anything can happen.”
UNITEDHEALTHCARE CEO MURDER SUSPECT LUIGI MANGIONE INDICTED IN NEW YORK
Luigi Mangioni is escorted from an NYPD helicopter in New York City, NY, Thursday, December, 19, 2024. Mangione is the prime suspect in the murder of United Healthcare CEO, Brian Thompson. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)
She added that Mangione “has a lot going for him, just because he’s young,” and said she would be surprised if federal prosecutors pursued the death penalty against a 26-year-old suspect.
Federal court documents filed Thursday afternoon show he is facing two counts of stalking, one count of murder using a firearm and one count of using a firearm in the commission of a crime in the Southern District of New York.
SUSPECTED UNITEDHEALTHCARE ASSASSIN LUIGI MANGIONE’S PLAN TO ‘WACK’ CEO REVEALED IN JOURNAL ENTRIES: AFFIDAVIT
Luigi Mangioni is escorted from an NYPD helicopter in New York City, NY, Thursday, December, 19, 2024. Mangione is the prime suspect in the murder of United Healthcare CEO, Brian Thompson. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)
“The federal government’s reported decision to pile on top of an already overcharged first-degree murder and state terror case is highly unusual and raises serious constitutional and statutory double jeopardy concerns,” his New York defense attorney, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, told Fox News. “We are ready to fight these charges in whatever court they are brought.”
Following a federal court hearing in Manhattan that concluded after 3 p.m. Thursday, Agnifilo declined comment but added that Mangione appreciates the support he has received.
“I will say this over and over again: the radicalization that is taking place across our country, we cannot ignore,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams said during a press gaggle after Mangione arrived in New York. “When you see an incident that took place so now stories when you witnessed a shooting took place or the school campus by now a young girl, that is the continuation of our young people are crying out for help.”
Edward Y. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in a statement Thursday that the case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office is expected to proceed to trial before the federal case.
Officials flew Mangione to New York after he attended two court proceedings at the Blair County Courthouse in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, on Thursday morning.
“We have an obligation not only to make apprehensions after an incident of this magnitude, but to do far more to prevent the open question.”
NYPD officers were seen sitting in the entire front row of the room where Mangione’s court proceedings took place in the Blair County Courthouse.
Luigi Nicholas Mangione leaves at Blair County Courthouse in Hollidaysburg, Pa., Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024. (Gene J. Puskar, Pool)
Several people outside the courthouse held signs that read “Deny, Defend, Depose,” the same message that Mangione allegedly left on shell casings at the scene of Thompson’s murder and words that are commonly used among insurance providers when they reject claims.
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The court covered his extradition hearing, as well as a preliminary hearing for his other firearms and fraudulent ID-related charges in Pennsylvania. The first hearing regarding his state charges ended around 9:20 a.m.
The suspect’s Altoona-based attorney, Thomas Dickey, spoke to Mangione, who nodded his head, ahead of the extradition hearing portion of Thursday’s proceedings.
Luigi Mangione on a flight from Pennsylvania to New York on Dec. 19 after waiving extradition. (David Dee Delgado for Fox News Digital)
Mangione’s defense officially filed his extradition waiver later on Thursday morning, which Judge David Consiglio signed, approving the suspect’s return to Manhattan.
“Our intention is to keep our case active,” Blair County District Attorney Peter Weeks said Thursday after the conclusion of Mangione’s court proceedings, adding that the suspect’s charges in New York are the “primary” case, and Blair County officials will continue to work with New York officials.
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New York prosecutors say Mangione plotted to travel to New York; find Thompson, a Minnesota resident in town for UnitedHealthcare’s annual shareholder conference; and kill him. Mangione allegedly shot Thompson from behind with a 3D-printed ghost gun and suppressor.
Adam Giesseman, left, of Piqua, Ohio, Ashlyn Adami, center, of South Bend, Ind., and Ethan Merrill of South Bend, Ind., protest outside the Blair County Courthouse after a hearing for Luigi Nicholas Mangione in Hollidaysburg, Pa., Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024. (Gary M. Baranec)
Bragg on Tuesday announced that a grand jury indicted Mangione on one count of first-degree murder, in furtherance of terrorism; two counts of second-degree murder; two counts of second-degree criminal weapons possession; four counts of third-degree criminal weapons possession; one count of fourth-degree criminal weapons possession; and one count of second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument.
Prosecutors say Mangione fled New York City within an hour after the crime and traveled to Altoona, Pennsylvania.
UNITEDHEALTHCARE CEO MURDER SUSPECT HAS OUTBURST OUTSIDE PENNSYLVANIA COURTHOUSE
The suspected gunman in UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s murder, believed to be Luigi Mangione, is seen flirting with a hostel employee on surveillance footage before the Dec. 4 shooting. (NYPD)
Altoona police arrested Mangione in a McDonald’s five days later on Dec. 9 after receiving a tip from an employee. The suspect allegedly presented local police with a fake ID and appeared to start shaking when they asked if he had been in New York recently.
Police said the suspect took a bus from New York City to Philadelphia, and then from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh and on to Altoona — a rust-belt town nestled between Pittsburgh and Harrisburg.
The CEO of UnitedHealthcare’s parent company mourned the killing of Brian Thompson and implored people to see that industry executives are trying their best with a flawed system. (AP Photo/UnitedHealth Group)
Officials also found a handwritten manifesto condemning the health care industry, as NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny previously told Fox News. The manifesto specifically mentioned UnitedHealthcare.
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While officials have not commented on an official motive, the public has speculated that the suspect had strong grievances with both the health care insurance industry.
Watch: Eric Adams discusses Luigi Mangione extradition
The 26-year-old suspect is originally from Maryland and has recently lived in California and Hawaii. Mangione graduated valedictorian from the Gilman School, a private, all-boys high school in Baltimore, in 2016. He went on to receive his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2020.
Luigi Mangione pictured in a Pennsylvania mugshot after his arrest in connection with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. (Obtained by Fox News Digital)
The day after his arrest in Altoona, on Dec. 10, Mangione announced that he would not waive extradition.
COULD UNITEDHEALTHCARE CEO MURDER SUSPECT LUIGI MANGIONE FACE DEATH PENALTY?
Attorney Tom Dickey addresses the media outside of Blair County Court in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. Dickey represented Luigi Mangione, who is suspected of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, during his extradition hearing. (Dee Delgado for Fox News Digital)
“We did not waive extradition and we’re contesting extradition. We are going to fight this along the rules and with the constitutional protections that my client has,” Dickey told reporters outside the Blair County Courthouse on Dec. 10.
Fox News’ David Hammelburg, Alexis McAdams, and Maria Parnovich contributed to this report.
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Here’s what to know in case you win the Powerball or Mega Millions jackpot.
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Seated before an array of New York State senators on Monday, Lara Blume McGee was asked by one lawmaker why it had taken her so long to go public with the details of how Jeffrey Epstein had abused her.
She paused for a moment, another victim of Mr. Epstein’s by her side, and leaned forward to speak into the microphone in the State Capitol.
“Fear,” said Ms. Blume McGee, who had been 17 and an aspiring model when Mr. Epstein abused her. It took her about 20 years to come forward.
“Jeffrey Epstein was a great manipulator,” she added, explaining that she feared being sued and having her life ruined by his capacity for retribution.
Ms. Blume McGee was among four women who testified in the State Capitol about the trauma Mr. Epstein inflicted upon them and the lasting damage he did to their lives. The appearance of two of the women — Ms. Blume McGee and Carine Silva De Deus — had been expected, but two other women — Glendys Espinal and Alexandra Golematis — also came forward. Both said they were speaking publicly for the first time about their experiences with Mr. Epstein.
Their testimony comes as State Senator Zellnor Myrie, a Democrat from Brooklyn, seeks support for legislation intended to update state sex-trafficking laws. The goal, Mr. Myrie said, was to better equip the state to handle the kinds of crimes that Mr. Epstein was accused of committing by criminalizing the actions of people who helped perpetuate his behavior.
If passed, the laws would also allow Mr. Epstein’s victims to sue his associates and his estate in state court for punitive damages. State law prevents people from seeking punitive damages from the estate of someone who has died.
“Trafficking is not sustained by one single actor. It is not just Jeffrey Epstein,” said Kathryn Robb, a lawyer who has been pushing for these sorts of legislative changes across the country.
“It is a network that includes financial backers, businesses and other intermediaries, who often escape accountability,” she added. “This bill will disrupt that.”
Ms. Espinal, a Bronx native, said she first met Mr. Epstein during her sophomore year of high school, when she was brought in to give him massages. The demands from the financier quickly escalated, and she said she still has post-traumatic stress disorder from these interactions, which occurred between 2005 and 2008.
“What was going through my head at the time was just pure shame and intimidation,” she said.
Mr. Myrie’s bill, which has no companion legislation in the Assembly as of yet, is not state lawmakers’ only effort to reckon with Mr. Epstein’s legacy and the pain he caused hundreds of women.
Assemblywoman Pamela Hunter, a Democrat from the Syracuse area, and Senator Liz Krueger, a Democrat representing parts of Manhattan, have introduced a bill that would close what they call the “Epstein loophole.” In the state’s laws relating to prostitution, the buyers of a sex worker’s services, or those facilitating them, are excluded from punishment under the statute relating to people being punished for “advancing prostitution.”
“New York should act quickly and close the Epstein loophole, which would have prevented men like Jeffrey Epstein and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs from being charged with trafficking at the state level,” Ms. Hunter said in a statement last month.
“This bill is necessary to ensure that traffickers and sex buyers are held accountable, while survivors of sexual exploitation are given the care and support they need,” she added, explaining that the law would also reduce punishments for those who perform sex work.
Mr. Epstein and his estate have settled several lawsuits with victims in recent years. The New York Times reported in February that a recent court filing showed that his estate was valued at $120 million, though the estimate might be an undercount.
Nathan Werksman, a lawyer for the women who testified on Monday, said that time was of the essence to change the law and give Ms. Blume McGee and others the chance to seek financial damages from Mr. Epstein’s estate.
Mr. Myrie’s bill, which the Senate Codes Committee passed on Monday, creates a one-year look-back period so that people can sue for actions that fall outside the statute of limitations. In this manner, it resembles the Adult Survivors Act, which in 2022 opened a one-time window in New York permitting people to file sex-abuse lawsuits after the statute of limitations had expired.
“The Epstein Estate is a finite amount of money that is dwindling every day, every week, and every month,” Mr. Werksman said.
“Jeffrey Epstein was able to escape criminal accountability, and his estate can escape civil liability if the estate dwindles down to nothing,” he added.
Lawyers for Mr. Epstein’s estate did not respond to emails seeking comment.
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Photos: See Nicole Kidman, Anne Hathaway, and more stars on the 2026 Met Gala red carpet – The Boston Globe
Held on the first Monday in May each year, the 2026 Met Gala features a “Fashion is Art” dress code, inspired by the institute’s spring exhibition, “Costume Art.” Opening to the public on May 10, the exhibition is the first to be housed in the new Condé M. Nast Galleries, located adjacent to the museum’s Great Hall.
Bringing out fashionable A-list stars from Hollywood and beyond, this year’s soirée once again features Anna Wintour back as a co-chair, marking her first Met Gala since her announcement last year that she was stepping down as editor-in-chief of Vogue. A trio of icons from across entertainment and sports join Wintour for the 2026 festivities, with Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman, and Venus Williams also serving as co-chairs.
Meanwhile, the gala’s host committee is pretty start-studded as well. Co-chaired by fashion designer Anthony Vaccarello and actress Zoë Kravitz, this year’s committee is comprised of Adut Akech, Angela Bassett, Sinéad Burke, Sabrina Carpenter, Doja Cat, Gwendoline Christie, Alex Consani, Misty Copeland, Elizabeth Debicki, Lena Dunham, Paloma Elsesser, Rebecca Hall, LISA, Chloe Malle, Aimee Mullins, Sam Smith, Tschabalala Self, Amy Sherald, Teyana Taylor, Lauren Wasser, Anna Weyant, A’ja Wilson, Chase Sui Wonders, and Yseult.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his wife Lauren Sánchez Bezos are the lead sponsors for both the gala and spring exhibition, and will serve as honorary chairs for Monday’s party.
Check out below to see all the top fashion moments and looks from the 2026 Met Gala red carpet.
Matt Juul can be reached at matthew.juul@globe.com.
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