Luigi Mangione’s diary entries from the months before UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was killed are detailed in a new court document.
These entries provide insight into how the murder suspect allegedly targeted the executive after first preparing a more extensive bombing strike.
In response to a motion by Mangione’s defense team to delay or dismiss the New York state case against him, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office filed a filing on June 4 that made the previously unreported entries public.
“I am at last comfortable with my course of action. Everything is starting to fit together. According to court documents, Mangione wrote in a post dated August 15, 2024, “And I don’t feel any doubt about whether it’s right/justified.” “I’m glad-in a way-that I’ve procrastinated bc [sic] it allowed me to learn more about (UnitedHealthcare),” which he subsequently defines as an organization “that literally extracts human life force for money.”
An attack that Mangione had originally planned would have been “an unjustified catastrophe,” according to the texts, and it would “do nothing to spread awareness/improve people’s lives.”
“Insurance is the target,” he continued. It fulfills all requirements.
A request for response from Mangione’s lawyers was not immediately answered.
When investigators arrested Mangione at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, days after he reportedly shot and killed Thompson on his way to an investor meeting in Manhattan on December 4, they found a red notebook that included the writings.
A federal grand jury in April indicted Mangione on a number of offenses, including murder by firearm, which carries a capital sentence threat. He faces multiple counts in Pennsylvania in addition to the federal charges and the case against him in New York.
Mangione entered a not guilty plea to each and every accusation.
Mangione wrote in October 2023, around six weeks prior to Thompson’s murder, that “the investor conference is a true windfall” because “It embodies everything wrong with our health system,” according to court documents.
Mangione went on to explain his reasoning for going after a CEO who was scheduled to attend an annual investor conference. Let’s imagine you wish to overthrow the health insurance cartel, which is ruthless and driven by greed. Do you nuke the headquarters? No. “Terrorism = bombs.”
Instead, he opted to “wack [sic] the CEO” at the conference, arguing that it doesn’t “risk innocents.”
Prosecutors contend in the complaint that Mangione’s meticulous preparation of the attack and the writings support the New York case and the accusation of first-degree murder in furtherance of terrorism.
“The message that emerges from all of these works is that Brian Thompson’s murder was meant to revolutionize the healthcare sector. Joel Seidemann, assistant district attorney for the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, wrote, “The defendant’s targeting of UHC was unrelated to anything the company had done to him personally.”
“Brian Thompson and UHC were simply symbols of the healthcare industry and what defendant considered a deadly greed-fueled cartel.”
Documents claim that the night before he killed Mangione, Thompson passed her on the street.
The new documents also reveal Mangione’s alleged stalking of Thompson before to the executive’s shooting death on a Manhattan street.
Mangione was spotted strolling around West 54th Street and Sixth Avenue, next to the Hilton Hotel, at approximately 7:45 p.m. on December 3, the night before the shooting. According to court documents, he seemed to be using a cell phone.
Thompson strolled passed Mangione in the other direction while he was still on the phone.
Authorities claim that Mangione waited for Thompson across the street from the hotel before approaching him from behind and shooting him in the back the next morning, which was the last time he would see Thompson.
According to court documents, investigators discovered three cartridge shells at the site that had the phrases “deny,” “delay,” and “depose,” which are probably references to the way insurance companies handle claims.
Mangione’s gun at the time of his arrest in Pennsylvania was identical to the cartridge casings found at the scene. Furthermore, Mangione’s DNA was discovered on a water bottle, smartphone, and a number of other objects close to Thompson’s death scene.
“If there were ever an open and shut case pointing to defendant’s guilt, this case is that case,” Seidemann wrote, citing the evidence against Mangione. Simply stated, it would be difficult to locate a case involving such strong proof of guilt regarding the murderer’s identity and the assassination’s deliberate character.”
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