Luigi Mangione, the suspected assassin of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is furious at the growing power of big health insurance companies and has written a handwritten manifesto warning that big health insurance companies are doing so at the expense of Americans, according to sources. He claimed that he was only concerned about “huge profits.”
Mr. Mangione, 26, listed United Healthcare as one of the largest companies in the U.S. by market capitalization and promoted his health insurance business in a two-and-a-half page manifesto addressed to the “federal government” recovered by law enforcement at the time of his arrest on Monday. denounced.
“The reality is that these (companies) have become far too powerful and continue to exploit our country for vast profits,” Mangione wrote, according to people familiar with the matter.
He apologized for the trauma he had caused, perhaps alluding to the execution-style shooting of Thompson, 50, in a crowded Midtown neighborhood last week, but said: “It had to be done.” ” he also said.
“I apologize for the traumatic conflict, but it had to be done,” he wrote, according to sources. “Frankly, these parasites were just expecting it to come.”
Mangione, who was charged with murder by New York prosecutors late Monday, also wrote in a short manifesto that he acted alone.
The writing is similar to the online anti-capitalist ramblings of Ivy League graduates on sites like Goodreads and X.
According to the account, in an April tweet he cited author Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, which criticized capitalism, the bourgeoisie, and how class groups are indoctrinated in society.
In another Goodreads post, Mangione quoted notorious dissident “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski.
“Imagine a society that exposes people to situations that make them deeply unhappy and then gives them drugs to take away that unhappiness,” Kaczynski once wrote in a quote Mangione liked.
Police found a 3D-printed pistol, a 3D-printed silencer, a loaded Glock magazine and multiple fake IDs in Mangione’s backpack after he was arrested at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania. A handwritten note is said to have been found.
What we know about the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
Brian Thompson, CEO of insurance giant UnitedHealthcare, was shot and killed in a “brazen, targeted attack” outside a luxury midtown hotel on Wednesday, police said. Mr. Thompson was appointed CEO of UnitedHealth in April 2021. He joined the company in 2004. He was one of several senior executives at the company targeted by the Justice Department. Thompson’s wife, Paulette, said she had received threats before her husband was killed. Thompson shooting led to heartbreaking online outpouring of support and even spurred a tasteless lookalike contest in New York City A dignitary was apprehended by police inside a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania. The suspect was identified as Luigi Mangione, 26, of Towson. Md. He was a former Ivy League student who hated the medical community.
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Police said a customer at the fast-food chain recognized Mangione from surveillance footage of the suspect who shot and killed Thompson in broad daylight on a busy Midtown sidewalk last week.
The customer then alerted an employee, who then called the police.
When officers arrived at the restaurant, they found Mangione at a table using a laptop and asked him to remove the mask he was wearing.
When the officers took one look at his face, they “instantly recognized him as the suspect,” according to the criminal complaint.
Mangione reportedly began shaking in nervousness when one of the officers asked him if he had recently visited New York City.
He was handcuffed and taken into custody on charges including forgery, possession of a firearm without a license, falsifying records or identification, possession of instruments of crime, and providing false identification to law enforcement.
He was ordered held without bail and will be extradited to New York.
