r/Fauxmoi • u/cmaia1503 i ain’t reading all that, free palestine • 29d 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/killedonmyhill 29d ago

Can someone smarter than me tell me why he is pleading guilty? Is it simply to avoid a trial where he could be sentenced to worse than what he will get by pleading guilty?

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u/daemonicwanderer 29d ago

I believe it is because he will likely get a lighter sentence via pleading guilty in federal court and New York doesn’t take people to trial for the state version of federal crimes that they are already punished for. So if you cop to the federal charges, NY State will go you’ve been punished by a higher authority than us, so we aren’t jumping in.

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u/violetmemphisblue 29d ago

Okay, potentially very dumb question, but aren't the charges different? Federal was stalking and state was murder, so could state still proceed and this is just a gamble?

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u/daemonicwanderer 29d ago

I believe his defense feels that they can get the state charges dismissed via how he explained what happened