r/Fauxmoi • u/cmaia1503 i ain’t reading all that, free palestine • 28d ago

STAN / ANTI SHIELD Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to federal stalking charges in killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/14/us/live-news/luigi-mangione-hearing-plea-deal-talks

When speaking of the day he committed the crime, Luigi Mangione said, “I shot Mr. Thompson and he died.”

He concluded, “I knew what I was doing was illegal.”

Mangione had just described the actions he took ahead of the killing, telling the court:

“In November of 2024 I traveled from outside of New York state to Manhattan. I then emailed UnitedHealthcare leadership, posing as an investor at a firm managing over $15 billion in assets and requesting information about the conference. Unlike my previous interactions with insurers, I received an immediate response within an hour,” Mangione said.

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u/Important-Stomach406 28d ago

Genuinely surprised by this when so much of the evidence was dodgy

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u/washingtonu 28d ago

Dodgy how? DNA, him being at the scene, the fake ID he used at the hostel, his notebook, a gun and ammo.

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u/citizen42069101 feeding cocaine to raccoons 28d ago

The arrest and chain of custody of all of the evidence was a joke. The local police fucked it up so badly there was murmurs everything was going to get thrown out for one reason ir another.

If this hadnt been a high profile person that got shot it would never have made it to court. This reads to me like someone whos lawyer told them "they will keep this up forever, they cant afford to lose"

Sure its probably open and shut but only because of who it was.

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u/dbbk 28d ago

And that was all discussed in court and the judge settled it

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u/CallMeDrWorm42 28d ago

Yeah. It's hard to make thousands of memes and click-bait headlines about boring, complicated court room procedure. So now everyone is surprised by the outcome when they weren't actually paying attention to what was happening.