Luigi Mangione newest: UnitedHealthcare CEO capturing suspect ‘considered bombing Manhattan’

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.”

Health care executives may be at heightened risk following Brian Thompson being gunned down in Manhattan last week, according to a police bulletin.

A NYPD bulletin was circulated on Tuesday in the wake of faux “wanted” signs of senior health insurance executives going viral online.

Other posts share their names and salaries, according to the bulletin.

Some online users shared the posts “emphasizing that it is a hitlist and that CEOs should be afraid,” per the bulletin.

Police are concerned that Luigi Mangione, who was charged with murder in New York in connection to the UnitedHealthcare CEO’s fatal shooting, could be viewed as a “martyr”, leading to copycats.

“Both prior to and after the suspected perpetrator’s identification and arrest, some online users across social media platforms reacted positively to the killing, encouraged future targeting of similar executives, and shared conspiracy theories regarding the shooting,” the bulletin said.