Luigi Mangione accepts $300k from 'sick' donors cheering murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO: expert

Luigi Mangione, the fishy accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson successful Manhattan connected Dec. 4, 2024, has accepted astir $300,000 successful donations for his transgression defense.

Mangione is charged with first-degree murder successful furtherance of an enactment of terrorism, stalking and a slew of different authorities and national charges successful some New York and Pennsylvania, for allegedly gunning down Thompson, a joined begetter of 2 from Minnesota.

"Luigi is alert of the money and precise overmuch appreciates the outpouring of support. My lawsuit plans connected utilizing it to combat each 3 of the unprecedented cases against him," Karen Friedman Agnifilo, Mangione's pb defence attorney, said successful a Monday statement, according to the December 4 Legal Committee, which created the fund.

The fundraiser garnered much than $290,000 from much than 10,000 idiosyncratic donations, according to a property release.

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Luigi Mangione departs the courtroom pursuing his arraignment successful New York City Criminal Court connected Monday, Dec. 23, 2024. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)

"It’s shocking that anybody would rise wealth for a idiosyncratic [accused of killing] idiosyncratic successful wide daylight successful acold blood. There are truthful galore different causes successful this state that a idiosyncratic could rise wealth for," erstwhile Washington, D.C., homicide detective, transgression proceedings lawyer and Fox News contributor Ted Williams told Fox News Digital. "Mangione, by the way, came from a precise well-off family…raising wealth for him is similar applauding murder."

"There are truthful galore different causes successful this state that a idiosyncratic could rise wealth for."

Williams questioned the "mental stability" of anyone who would rise wealth for a execution suspect, calling the enactment "sick."

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UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was changeable and killed successful midtown Manhattan connected Dec. 4, 2024. (Businesswire | NYPD Crimestoppers)

"I find it bittersweet successful America wherever we tin witnesser 1 antheral murdering different antheral and amplify the murderer. It is appalling to maine that anybody would rise adjacent a dollar for a idiosyncratic who killed different idiosyncratic successful acold blood," Williams said. "Yes, a idiosyncratic is guiltless until proven blameworthy beyond a tenable doubt. However, fixed everything we cognize astir Luigi…all the grounds points straight to him. I americium conscionable shocked that due to the fact that of a person’s status, i.e. being a wellness attraction executive, that anybody successful America could beryllium cheering the decease of a quality being."

The December 4 [D4] Legal Committee describes itself arsenic "a squad of 15 volunteers astir the United States" that was "created independently by Mangione's supporters connected his behalf." The D4 committee's spokespeople, Sam Beard and Jamie Peck, besides big a podcast "about communism and gossip" called "Party Girls."

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Luigi Mangione is escorted from an NYPD chopper successful New York City, NY, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)

"We’re thrilled that Luigi is accepting these funds truthful that helium tin equine the strongest defence possible," Beard said successful a statement. "The American backstage wellness security manufacture has ruined countless lives by denying radical entree to basal attraction and burying families successful aesculapian debt. It’s nary astonishment that Luigi’s alleged actions are understood and supported by tens of millions of hard-working Americans."

Mangione allegedly changeable Thompson outside the Manhattan hotel wherever UnitedHealthcare's yearly shareholder league was being held, successful an enactment prosecutors judge was meant to nonstop a connection to the wellness attraction security industry. 

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Luigi Mangione is escorted from an NYPD chopper successful New York City, NY, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024. He is charged successful the execution of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)

Police recovered a manifesto connected the fishy erstwhile helium was arrested days aboriginal successful Altoona, Pennsylvania, wherever helium traveled by autobus from New York aft the alleged killing.

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"Luigi Mangione allegedly conducted the carefully premeditated and targeted execution of Brian Thompson to incite nationalist debates," James Dennehy, adjunct manager successful complaint of the FBI's New York tract office, said successful a connection aft Mangione's extradition to New York. "This alleged crippled demonstrates a cavalier cognition towards humanity — deeming execution an due recourse to satiate idiosyncratic grievances."

The 26-year-old Mangione is primitively from Maryland and has precocious lived successful California and Hawaii. He graduated valedictorian from the Gilman School, a private, all-boys precocious schoolhouse successful Baltimore, successful 2016. Mangione went connected to person his bachelor's and master's degrees successful machine subject from the University of Pennsylvania successful 2020.