Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO killing said he ‘had it coming,’ according to prosecutors
Six weeks before UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down outside a Manhattan hotel last December, Luigi Mangione mused about rebelling against “the deadly, greed fueled health insurance cartel” and expressed that killing the executive “conveys a greedy bastard that had it coming.” Manhattan prosecutors revealed the comments in a court filing Wednesday. The Manhattan district attorney’s office quoted extensively from Mangione’s handwritten diary as they fight to uphold his state murder charges. Mangione’s lawyers want the state case thrown out, arguing that those charges and a parallel federal death penalty case amount to double jeopardy. The 27-year-old Mangione has pleaded not guilty in both cases. No trial dates have been set.
