Luigi Mangione's online defense fund surpasses $1 million

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Source: abc news



Mangione will return to state court on June 26.

By Aaron Katersky May 7, 2025, 10:24 AM

An online legal defense fund for alleged CEO killer Luigi Mangione has surpassed $1 million as he prepares to return to court next month.

The fund reached the million-dollar mark on Tuesday, which coincided with Mangione's 27th birthday.

Mangione is being held without bail at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where his legal team said he "receives anywhere from 10 to 115 letters per day."

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg hasn't specifically addressed the defense fund, but he spoke out against the online support for Mangione in general in an interview with ABC News in December.

Luigi Mangione, accused of fatally shooting the UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City and leading authorities on a five-day search is scheduled, ...........
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Mangione has pleaded not guilty to state and federal charges..........


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There is a good short video at link of Mangone pointing the gun and How police tracked him down

Link to tweet

[marble falls]

1. He's no hero, regardless how corrupt his victim's employer was or wasn't.

[questionseverything]

2. So insurance companies can kill , maim and make miserable millions of people

By delaying and denying but heaven forbid one of them suffers

You have a right to your opinion but you obviously have never watched a loved one suffer and die of a treatable disease so an insurance company can make more money

[marble falls]

3. Sure I have. If not for VA, I would have died exactly like that. I have a complaint with a certain insecticide ...

... manufacturer, who do you recommend I shoot dead in the streets without due process or even being accused of any crime?

Or the head of a huge multi-national company that sells baby formula to African nations and discourages nursing, that then encourages thinning the formula to save money or stretch a supply. That then causes developmental problems with the children. Who should I shoot: the CEO, the Head of Marketing, the CTO? Who?

[questionseverything]

5. But you had the va, so you don't understand at all

[marble falls]

9. What you don't know. I've seen people die who did not need to over insurance and who pays for what. ...

... I lost my Cadillac insurance at 60. Then there were symptoms. I had to go to VA. Am I glad I did. But I was prepared to die and there was nothing I could do about it: except I had enlisted, like only about two or three percent of the country have. All things being equal, except for VA, I would have died.

I posted these two OPs right after my second cancer surgery. I still post the second one about once a year:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212198406

But not this year, it seems. Can't find it. It was by a member called medical admin. I did find his wife's letter when he died because of feuding insurance companies over two events, that timely treatment would have saved his life.

He's on the in memorial page, this is his wife's letter: https://www.democraticunderground.com/1002632763

Been closer to it and around and dealt with it a lot more than you think.

[questionseverything]

13. While only a small percent of the country has enlisted

We all pay the military’s meals, medical, housing so again great for you

If you don’t care that insurance executives deny life saving care wait until *rump has gutted the va

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4. Did Mangione watch a loved one suffer and die of a treatable disease so an insurance company could make money?

My sense is that he was mad at the insurance system, but not because of a personal grievance. Well, I'm no fan of the insurance system, but it would never occur to me to murder an insurance executive in cold blood.

I guess the question is why haven't you killed an insurance executive if you think doing so is justified?

[Sneederbunk]

6. Blood money.

[Linda ladeewolf]

7. Mangione suffered from severe back pain.

I think the killing had something to do with the pain management he didn’t get. I’ve suffered with sometimes severe back pain for the last 23 years. It’s not fun. I have a neighbor with it, he drank too much to start with, now he drinks and takes pain killers deal with it. He has Arachnoiditis. I just have Degenerative disc disease and a collapsed disc. I do not take any prescription pain killers, though I expect in the future I will have to. For now I use otcs and endure and sometimes I fly off the handle at things, people and life in general.

[marble falls]

11. I'm sure killing someone and serving time will help with his pain. Wait till he gets medically ignored ...

... in the US Federal prison system. He'll find his options for pain relief ... limited.

[questionseverything]

14. Yes we know, it's every where

[DENVERPOPS]

8. Get an all Dem Jury

and what happened in the OJ trial will take place.........Jury nullification

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10. And then when someone takes him out - it was just an irresistible impulse. That's a legal defense. NT

[marble falls]

12. I'll cover that bet. I most think Democrats will think he chose the wrong venue and tactics to get a rememdy.

[Swede]

15. He's gonna get a hung jury.

Eat the rich, as the saying goes.