Luigi Mangione, 26, accused of shooting and killing UnitedHealthcare CEO on a Manhattan sidewalk last year, was formally accused by a federal court for murder, persecution and firearm offenses.
Mangione faces state and federal accusations for the murder of Brian Thompson on December 4 in a case that exposed public frustration with the US health system and insurance companies.
Federal prosecutors had already made accusations against Mangione at the end of last year, but he had not yet been indicted on these allegations so far.
The federal prosecution of murder for firearms causes a maximum death penalty if convicted. Attorney General Pam Bondi said the US Department of Justice will ask the death penalty against Mangione.
The young man has already stated innocent of accusations of murder and terrorism in the state of New York.
Mangione’s spokesman has not yet commented on the indictment.
Earlier this month, after the Justice Department said it would ask Mangione’s lawyer, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, said, “We are prepared to fight these federal accusations, brought by a lawless justice department, as well as the accusations of the state of New York and the plaintiffs of Pennsylvania, and anything they want to put on Luigi.”
In February, Mangione added an experienced lawyer in cases of death penalty to her legal team. Avraham Moskowitz has already represented more than 50 defendants accused in cases with death penalty in New York, according to Mangione’s judicial records and lawyers.
Case in the state of New York should advance first
Mangione is accused of killing Thompson when the executive walked towards a hotel hosting the UnitedHealthcare annual investor conference in the Manhattan Center at the end of last year.
The shooting and searches for the suspect caught the attention of the United States and the world.
Mangione is being kept in federal custody in Brooklyn, New York, although authorities said her case at the New York State Court will first.
He was indicted by a great Manhattan jury on 11 accusations, including an accusation of first degree murder and two accusations of second degree murder. He faces a sentence of life imprisonment with no possibility of parole if convicted of state accusations.
The first -degree murder accusation claims that he killed the executive “in promoting an act of terrorism”, which is legally defined as an intention to intimidate or coerce the civilian population or a government unit. One of the second -degree charges also claims that Mangione committed murder “as a crime of terrorism.”
The 26 -year -old also faces state accusations in Pennsylvania, where he was arrested after a one week hunt.
Upon being detained after being seen in a Pennsylvania McDonald’s, police recovered a “ghost weapon” and a written notebook that they said have revealed a well -planned murder involving the harassment of their alleged victim.
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Source: CNN Brasil
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