Luigi Mangione: UnitedHealthcare CEO murder suspect ‘considered bombing Manhattan’ as new details emerge

Luigi Mangione’s fingerprints match the fingerprints collected at the scene where UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was murdered, law enforcement sources told CNN Wednesday.

The development comes two days after the 26-year-old was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania after a McDonald’s employee recognized him from the photos circulated by NYPD.

On Tuesday, Mangione appeared at an extradition hearing, where he contested being moved to New York, where he faces a second-degree murder charge. A judge denied him bail.

“It’s completely out of touch and an insult to the intelligence of the American people and their lived experience!,” Mangione shouted as he was escorted into the Blair County Courthouse.

Luigi Mangione’s lawyer has maintained that he has seen no evidence linking the gun found on his client during Monday’s arrest and that used by Brian Thompson’s killer in Manhattan last week.

“I have not been made aware of any evidence that links the gun that was found on his person to the crime. These are things we’re looking to see,” Thomas Dickey told Good Morning America host George Stephanoplous on Wednesday morning.

When Stephanoplous stated that the gun “kind of looks exactly the same to the one that was used” by the gunman who killed Thompson, Dickey replied: “A lot of guns look the same.”

The lawyer said he hopes to get his “hands on” other evidence, including the 262-word so-called manifesto which was allegedly written by Mangione, as early as Wednesday.

“Today’s another day. We’re looking forward to beginning our inquiry as to what evidence may or may not be out there.”

Luigi Mangione will fight his extradition to New York and is expected to plead not guilty against murder charges held against him there, his lawyer Tom Dickey said.

The Brian Thompson shooting suspect appeared at an extradition hearing at the Blair County Courthouse in Hollidaysburg in Pennsylvania on Tuesday.

After the hearing, the lawyer said the 26-year-old would contest being moved to New York to face murder charges.

“He’s pleading not guilty to those offences,” Dickey told reporters on Tuesday. “I haven’t seen any evidence that he’s the shooter.”

Blair County District Attorney Peter Weeks said both Pennsylvania and New York’s governors remain confident they can get the warrant to transfer him back to the Empire State before the 30-day deadline.

Dickey also said that he hoped his client pleaded not guilty to charges faced in Pennsylvania – for offenses including forgery, falsely identifying himself and carrying a gun without a license.

The book Delay, Deny, Defend has ascended to the number one spot on Amazon’s bestseller law list 14-years after it was published – with its title bearing a striking resemblance to a key piece of evidence at Brian Thompson’s murder scene.

The gunman who murdered the UnitedHealth CEO in a horror early morning shooting  a week ago left behind a cryptic message at the scene, carving the three words “depose,” “deny,” and “defend” into the live rounds and shell casings near the scene.

The three words appear to mirror professor of law at Rutgers Law School Jay Feinman’s 2010 book Delay, Deny, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don’t Pay Claim and What You Can Do About It.

“Today the name of the game is delay, deny, defend: to improve their profits, insurance companies delay payment of justified claims, deny payment altogether, and defend their actions by forcing claimants to enter litigation,” the book’s blurb reads.

Luigi Mangione has been charged with murder in connection to the death of the UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside his Manhattan hotel early last Wednesday.

He is currently being held in a Pennsylvania jail without bond as he awaits extradition to New York where he faces a murder charge. He also faces charges for gun law violations in Pennsylvania. On Tuesday, his attorney said he is expected to plead not guilty to all charges.

Thompson, 50, was shot dead on December 4 outside the New York Hilton Midtown. That launched a massive manhunt for the suspect who eluded police for nearly a week.

Our reporters have detailed what you should know about Mangione, the man police say committed the crime.

Luigi Mangione allegedly considered using a bomb in Manhattan in a murder plot against the UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, he reportedly scribed in his notebook.

A “to-do list” was apparently found inside a spiral notebook that was gleaned along with a 262-page manifesto, a ghost gun, silencer and false ID cards upon the shooting suspect’s arrest at an Altoona, Pennsylvania McDonald’s on Monday.

The list allegedly outlined tasks to be completed to facilitate a killing, combined with notes that justified those plans, a source told CNN.

James Liddell has all the details.

Podcasting Goliath Joe Rogan slammed the US health insurance industry as “f***ing gross” in the wake of UnitedHealthcare CEO, Brian Thompson, being murdered in Manhattan last week.

On Tuesday’s episode of the Joe Rogan Experience, the host spoke to Hollywood director Quentin Tarantino and producer Roger Avary, which was recorded last week before Luigi Mangione was named the suspected shooter and charged with murder in New York City.

Rogan attacked the health insurance industry, calling it a “dirty business”.

“It’s a dirty, dirty business. The business of insurance is f***ing gross,” he said.

Rogan also claimed that not many will lament the loss of Thomspon, saying he doesn’t “think anybody’s going to be crying too hard over” Thompson’s death other than his family.

The brother of Ted Kaczynski – aka the Unabomber – said he hopes that Luigi Mangione did not view his sibling as a role model.

Kaczynski embarked on a deadly two-decade-long bombing spree until he was captured in Montana in 1996. He rallied against technology in rambling writings and manifestos.

Mangione, who faces a murder charge in connection with Brian Thompson’s fatal shooting in Midtown Manhattan last week, reviewed Kacynski’s book, The Unabomber Manifesto in January, writing on Goodreads: “It’s simply impossible to ignore how prescient many of his predictions about modern society turned out”.

Now, David Kaczynski, the Unabomber’s brother, said he hopes his sibling’s legacy didn’t influence the shooting suspect’s alleged actions.

“His actions are like a virus,” he told NBC News.

He later added: “Many factors go into a person’s motivation that they drastically act like this, and I hope my brother wasn’t in a way a key model for him.”