An arrest warrant issued for Luigi Mangione says the suspected assassin of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was carrying “written admission” on him when he was arrested Monday (December 9th).
Mangione, a former high school valedictorian, and a University of Pennsylvania graduate has been charged with one count of murder, two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, one count of second-degree possession of a forged document, and one count of third-degree criminal possession of a firearm.
According to sources, authorities reportedly found a “two-and-a-half-page manifesto” that Mangione had written raging against major health insurance companies’ “growing power” and writing that “frankly, these parasites simply had it coming.”
“A reminder: the US has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy. United is the [indecipherable] largest company in the US by market cap, behind only Apple, Google, and Walmart,” Mangione wrote in the alleged manifesto.
“It has grown and grown, but as our life expectancy? No the reality is, these [indecipherable] have simply gotten too powerful, and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allowed them to get away with it.”
Mangione apologized for any trauma he had inflicted – most probably alluding to his alleged execution-style shooting of Brian Thompson in busy Midtown last week – but said it “had to be done. “
“I do apologize for any strife of traumas, but it had to be done,” he wrote, according to sources. “Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming.”
Mangione, who was taken into custody after a McDonald’s customer told an employee that the 26-year-old, who was wearing a mask and looking at a computer in the fast-food restaurant, looked suspicious, also wrote in the short manifesto that he worked alone.
“To the Feds, I’ll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn’t working with anyone,” he wrote.
He continued: “This was fairly trivial: some elementary social engineering, basic CAD, a lot of patience. The spiral notebook, if present, has some straggling notes and To Do lists that illuminate the gist of it.”
Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto
“To the Feds, I’ll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn’t working with anyone. This was fairly trivial: some elementary social engineering, basic CAD, a lot…— Rodney H. Swearengin (@RHSwearengin) December 10, 2024
Mangione, who, according to People, is part of a wealthy Baltimore-area family, and who reportedly suffers from chronic back pain, was charged by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office with murder and gun crimes hours after his apprehension in Pennsylvania.
Authorities allegedly discovered the handwritten “manifesto” along with a 3D-printed gun, SD-printed silencer, a loaded Glock magazine, and multiple fake IDs in his backpack after his arrest at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pa.
He is being held at a state prison in Pennsylvania after being denied bail on Monday. He is expected to be extradited to New York.
