Luigi Mangione accepts nearly $ 300,000 to legal defense in murder case in unitedthealthcare CEO

Luigi Mangione has accepted nearly $ 300,000 in donations from fans as he waits for trial to allegedly kill Brian Thompson, CEO of Unitedhealthcare, in December.

On December 4th Legal Committee that Steward a Fundraiser at Giverendgo For Mangion’s legal defense said in a speech that it had contacted Mangion’s legal team that accepted the $ 297,000 raised by the campaign to pay the defendant’s legal bills.

Mangione’s leading lawyer, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, told the committee December 4 – so named to the date of Thompson’s killing – that Mangione “appreciates a lot of outflow of support” from what the committee says is more than 10,000 individual donors.

A source with knowledge of the situation confirmed that the post was genuine. Friedman Agnifilo refused to comment when people reached.

Mangione, Ivy League-educated scion of a prominent Maryland property family, is accused of shooting down Thompson outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel where he was on his way to an investor conference.

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The masked suspect fled from the stage and was the subject of a massive manhunt in the next week.

Mangione was detained in Altoona, Pa. On December 9 after a tipster called the police on a local McDonald’s. Police said he had a 9mm ghost gun, several fake IDs and a manifesto critical of the health insurance industry.

He faces federal murder complaints that can land him the death penalty as well as state murder complaints accusing him of committing a terrorist act. He has not pleaded guilty to the state taxes and is currently being held attempted Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.

The shocking killing led to a nationwide outflow of anger towards the health insurance industry and sympathy for Mangione specifically.

In his post, the December 4th Committee said the media had “encryption (d) to demonize” mangione, but the “average American understands who the real guilty is.” They called the terror prosecutors charged against Mangion “Basically Unacceptable.”

“We are pleased that the money raised by this campaign will go towards building the strongest possible defense against these insulting charges,” the committee wrote. The group intends to continue to raise money for Mangione during his trial.

Unitedthealthcare did not immediately return a request for comment.