Luigi Mangione accepts crowdfunded $300K from fans for legal defence fund

Luigi Mangione, the antheral accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, has accepted astir US$300,000 in donations from fans arsenic helium awaits trial.

According to a fundraiser connected GiveSendGo, the December 4 Legal Committee has made interaction with Mangione’s ineligible team, which accepted the US$297,000 (nearly C$425,176) raised astatine the clip of interaction to wage Mangione’s ineligible bills.

On Monday, the group, named aft Mangione’s proceedings date, shared an update connected the crowdfunding page.

“We are excited to denote that we person established interaction with Karen Friedman Agnifilo and the remainder of Luigi’s ineligible team, who volition beryllium accepting your donations,” they wrote. “In effect to proceeding astir your 10,000+ idiosyncratic donations, averaging nether $30, Karen stated that Luigi ‘very overmuch appreciates the outpouring of support.’ We consciousness honored to supply supporters with a reliable mode to proceed contributing to his ineligible fees done immoderate aboriginal donations.”

The station went connected to enactment that the two-month day of Mangione’s apprehension has passed and the participants are “thrilled that the wealth raised by this run volition spell toward gathering the strongest imaginable defense” against Mangione’s charges, which they notation to arsenic “insulting.”

The December 4 Legal Committee plans to proceed raising funds for Mangione’s ineligible defence for the duration of the trial. Since contacting Mangione’s ineligible team, the crowdfunding leafage has raised US$327,270 (nearly C$468,509). The crowdfunding leafage has a extremity of raising US$500,000 (nearly C$715,817.50).

“I can’t halt donating lol! You’re not unsocial Luigi! Millions of radical enactment you. I americium making this tiny donation connected behalf of my deceased brother, who would inactive beryllium live contiguous were it not for the insatiable greed of the US healthcare manufacture and its oligarchs. We request 1000 [sic] much conscionable similar you, Luigi,” 1 anonymous donator wrote connected the crowdfunding page.

“My 4th clip donating due to the fact that portion the US authorities is trying to instrumentality Medicaid distant from my quadriplegic ventilator babelike loved one, for nett security companies are keeping america sicker and poorer. Our strategy is simply a mess, and I judge successful justice,” different idiosyncratic wrote.

In December, Mangione, 26, pleaded not guilty to murder and panic charges. The Manhattan territory lawyer formally charged Mangione earlier successful December with aggregate counts of murder, including execution arsenic an enactment of terrorism, successful a authorities lawsuit that volition tally parallel to his national prosecution.

Federal prosecutors preempted Mangione’s archetypal quality successful New York’s authorities proceedings court, bringing their ain charges implicit the shooting. The national charges could transportation the anticipation of the decease penalty, portion the maximum condemnation for the authorities charges is beingness successful situation without parole.

Prosecutors person said the 2 cases volition proceed connected parallel tracks, with the authorities charges expected to spell to proceedings first.

Authorities accidental Mangione gunned down Thompson arsenic helium was walking to an capitalist league successful midtown Manhattan connected the greeting of Dec 4.

Mangione was arrested successful a Pennsylvania McDonald’s aft a five-day search, carrying a weapon that matched the 1 utilized successful the shooting and a fake ID, constabulary said. He besides was carrying a notebook expressing hostility toward the wellness security manufacture and particularly affluent executives, according to national prosecutors.

—With files from The Associated Press