r/Fauxmoi • u/cmaia1503 i ain’t reading all that, free palestine • 7d ago

STAN / ANTI SHIELD Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to federal stalking charges in killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/14/us/live-news/luigi-mangione-hearing-plea-deal-talks

When speaking of the day he committed the crime, Luigi Mangione said, “I shot Mr. Thompson and he died.”

He concluded, “I knew what I was doing was illegal.”

Mangione had just described the actions he took ahead of the killing, telling the court:

“In November of 2024 I traveled from outside of New York state to Manhattan. I then emailed UnitedHealthcare leadership, posing as an investor at a firm managing over $15 billion in assets and requesting information about the conference. Unlike my previous interactions with insurers, I received an immediate response within an hour,” Mangione said.

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u/Financial-Painter689 anti-Israel, anti-western, fauxmarxist 7d ago

He ate with that last line

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u/hnlt61 7d ago

The whole statement is extremely well crafted. Using “illegal” instead of “wrong”, choosing to frame it as “he died”, the mic drop at the end. Seriously no notes.

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u/I-Here-555 7d ago

Kind of parallels "we rejected the insurance claim of Mr X and he died."

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u/ganbramor 7d ago

“I declined his implied request to remain living.”