Luigi Mangione, accused of killing a senior executive of an insurance company in a street in New York City, has inspired others to adopt violence, including the gunman behind the mortal attack last month against the NFL headquarters in Manhattan, federal prosecutors contain in a new judicial presentation.
Mangione, prosecutors argued in Wednesday’s presentation, raises a threat to the public because he is actively looking for influence on others to continue in his steps.
“In a nutshell, the defendant hoped to normalize the use of violence to achieve ideological or political objectives,” they said in the document. “Since the murder, certain sectors of the public, which are openly identified as acolytes of the accused, have increasingly begun to see violence as an acceptable, or even necessary substitute, of reasoned political disagreement.”
Mangione, 27, is waiting for trial, accused on December 4, 2024, murder of the CEO of United of United Brian Thompson.
Started in Pennsylvania five days after the fatal shooting, Mangione declared innocent of federal murder charges, two charges of harassment and a crime of firearms for allegedly using a silencer. It also faces state murder charges.
But since his arrest, Mangione has “openly cultivated supporters” when establishing a website where he is directly addressed to them and catalogs the support letters he received while he is locked in the Federal Prison of Brooklyn, prosecutors said.
The United States Attorney General, Pam Bondi, announced in April that the government would seek the death penalty against mangion for “an act of political violence” and a “premeditated and cold blood murder that shocked the United States.”
The new presentation of federal prosecutors is an attempt to counteract a defense motion for more information about what the government aims to offer as evidence that Mangione should be executed by a murder that has made it a popular hero for some members of the public.
In May, Mangione’s Legal Defense Fund exceeded $ 1 million in donations of more than 28,000 people, many of whom are angry with the nation’s profit medical system.
To reinforce his argument that Mangione inspired more chaos, prosecutors in a footnote cited the July 28 attack at the headquarters of Pro Football’s Park Avenue by an armed man named Shane Tamura, who fatally shot a police officer from the city of New York, an executive from Blackstone and two other people, before suicide.
“Like Mangione, Tamura left evidence for researchers to find, blaming NFL and football for causing chronic traumatic encephalopathy,” prosecutors wrote, referring to brain disease often caused by brain shocks. “Almost immediately, public members sympathize with the defendant promoted Tamura’s actions as a continuation of the accused’s philosophy.”
Mangione presented his plans against the “Mortal Health Insurance Poster and Fed by Greed” in a red notebook that the investigators found after their arrest, the Prosecutors of the New York state alleged in a presentation of the June Court.
The lawyer who represents Mangione in the federal case did not immediately respond to a request for comments on Friday.
