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Luigi Mangione executed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in cold blood as an ‘act of war’ after the company ‘violated’ its contract with his mother who suffered years of excruciating pain and expense following a diagnosis of severe neuropathy.

This is the claim made in a document purporting to be Mangione’s full manifesto, obtained and shared at length by true crime podcast Hidden True Crime.

Producer Lauren Matthias who runs the popular podcast and YouTube channel with her psychologist husband, Dr. John Matthias, shared the unverified document Tuesday afternoon on YouTube. 

Lauren told DailyMail.com: ‘It seems to have originated on a Substack and we put it out there because people like hearing things in real time.

‘We also thought that if it is a fake somebody would quickly tell us. But nobody has come forward to do that.’

If the document is proved to be genuine, it raises the question of why Mangione, who comes from a wealthy Maryland family, thought his parents would not be able to afford the procedures.  

In the episode, reviewed by DailyMail.com, Matthias reads from the document at length. In it Mangione, 26, compares himself to Gladiator’s Maximus Decimus Meridius as he reveals how his rage ‘surged’ as he witnessed his mother’s suffering in the face of UnitedHealthcare’s repeated delays and denials.

According to the alleged manifesto, Kathleen Mangione, 60, was diagnosed with neuropathy – a nerve condition that causes a range of symptoms from tingling, numbness, burning sensations to pain – when she was just 41 years old, a diagnosis that came after a decade of pain and discomfort.

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I’ve obtained a copy of suspected killer Luigi Mangione’s manifesto — the real one, not the forgery circulating online. Major media outlets are also in possession of the document but have refused to publish it and not even articulated a reason why. My queries to The New York Times, CNN and ABC to explain their rationale for withholding the manifesto, while gladly quoting from it selectively, have not been answered.

I’ll have more to say on this later — on how unhealthy the media’s drift away from public disclosure is — but for now, here’s the manifesto:

“To the Feds, I’ll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn’t working with anyone. This was fairly trivial: some elementary social engineering, basic CAD, a lot of patience. The spiral notebook, if present, has some straggling notes and To Do lists that illuminate the gist of it. My tech is pretty locked down because I work in engineering so probably not much info there. I do apologize for any strife of traumas but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming. A reminder: the US has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy. United is the [indecipherable] largest company in the US by market cap, behind only Apple, Google, Walmart. It has grown and grown, but as our life expectancy? No the reality is, these [indecipherable] have simply gotten too powerful, and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allwed them to get away with it. Obviously the problem is more complex, but I do not have space, and frankly I do not pretend to be the most qualified person to lay out the full argument. But many have illuminated the corruption and greed (e.g.: Rosenthal, Moore), decades ago and the problems simply remain. It is not an issue of awareness at this point, but clearly power games at play. Evidently I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty.”

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The arrest of Luigi Mangione in connection with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO has left friends, family, and acquaintances grappling with shock and disbelief.

As investigators piece together the timeline leading to his arrest, new details have emerged about his life in the months preceding his disappearance and alleged crime.

Mangione, a 28-year-old former computer science student from Maryland. He was described by those who knew him as intelligent, athletic, and socially well-adjusted.

However, the trajectory of his life appeared to change drastically earlier this year following back surgery to address chronic pain caused by a pinched nerve, far-left HuffPost reported.

Mangione spent six months in 2022 living at Surfbreak, a co-living community near Honolulu’s Ala Moana Beach Park.

R.J. Martin, the founder of Surfbreak, described him as an articulate and engaged community member who started a book club for residents in an interview with Honolulu Civil Beat.

However, Martin noted that Mangione was plagued by debilitating back pain stemming from a misaligned vertebrae that pinched his spinal cord. The injury reportedly halted his surfing activities and strained his romantic life.

After undergoing back surgery earlier this year, Mangione shared updates with Martin but soon ceased all communication.

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Luigi Mangione, the suspected assassin of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, raged over major health insurance companies’ growing power and claimed in a handwritten manifesto that they cared only about “immense profit” at the expense of Americans, according to sources.

Mangione, 26, cited UnitedHealthcare as one of the biggest companies in the US by market capitalization and slammed the health insurance business in the two-and-a-half-page manifesto addressed to “the Feds” and recovered by investigators during his arrest Monday.

“The reality is, these [companies] have gotten too powerful, and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit,” Mangione wrote, according to the sources.

He apologized for any trauma he inflicted — likely alluding to his alleged execution-style shooting of Thompson, 50, in busy Midtown last week — but said “it had to be done.”

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The suspected killer of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson is the heir to a holiday resort fortune created by his grandparents – and the brother of a top doctor.

Luigi Mangione, 26, comes from a powerful Maryland family centered around the late patriarch Nicholas Mangiano, a first-generation American who built a real estate empire in the state that included country clubs and media. 

Nicholas, who died in 2008 aged 83 after suffering a stroke, was the owner of Turf Valley Resort and Hayfields Country Club, as well as the radio station at the WCBM-AM. 

Nicholas was born in Baltimore’s Little Italy to a poor family but worked his way up from nothing. He also founded the nursing home Lorien Health Services. Luigi volunteered at his grandpa’s nursing home in 2014, according to his LinkedIn.

Nicholas had 10 children, including Luigi’s father Louis, and was married to his wife Mary until his death. The couple lived in a $1.9 million mansion situated on their country club, with Mary dying in 2013. 

Luigi Mangione is also the cousin of Republican Maryland House of Delegates member Nino Mangione, as reported by The Baltimore Sun. 

Meanwhile Luigi’s mother Kathleen Zannino Mangione owns a boutique travel company, and his sister MariaSanta Mangione is a respected doctor. She currently works as a medical resident at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas after graduating from Vanderbilt medical school.

Luigi Mangione is being held at a jail in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after the UnitedHealthcare CEO was shot dead on the streets of Manhattan after his arrest Monday morning.

He was detained at McDonald’s in Pennsylvania around 9am ET on firearm charges and is said to have been found with a ‘ghost gun’ that may have been made using a 3D printer.

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The person of interest identified in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is an anti-capitalist former Ivy League student — who liked online quotes from “Unabomber’’ Ted Kaczynski raging against the country’s medical community.

Tech whiz Luigi Mangione, 26, of Towson, Md., was taken into custody Monday morning at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pa., after an intense manhunt following the coldblooded execution of Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel last week, sources said.

He has not been charged.

The former prep school valedictorian was caught with a manifesto that appeared to list grievances against the health care industry, including its taking of enormous profits and its alleged shady motives, sources said.

He is believed to have acted alone, and it was unclear if he had yet made any statements.

Mangione has subscribed to anti-capitalist and climate-change causes in addition to showing he despises the health care industry in the country, according to law enforcement sources, citing online activity gleaned by authorities.

On the Goodreads website, Mangione’s account shows quotes he particularly likes ranging from Socrates to Bruce Lee — to wacky anti-establishment Kaczynski, the infamous “Unabomber’’ who terrorized the country for nearly two decades by dispatching deadly bombs before he was nabbed in 1996.

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A person of interest in the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson has been detained.

Law enforcement sources tell TMZ … a man in Altoona, Pennsylvania is being held for questioning in connection with last week’s shooting in New York City.

Our sources tell TMZ … local police responded after receiving a tip that the person of interest was seen in a McDonald’s.

The man has a similar gun as the one used in the murder, the sources said.

The gun used in the shooting has been the subject of speculation — with some law enforcement sources saying the weapon is a veterinary gun commonly used on ranches and farms to put down animals, with a reduced-noise gunshot — instead of a pistol fitted with a silencer, as was originally reported.

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There was unusual evidence found over the weekend in the ongoing investigation into the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The new alleged items discovered in the NYPD’s investigation have ties to an iconic board game and popular designer brand.

Law enforcement sources tell TMZ … inside the backpack of the suspected CEO’s killer was fake money from the board game Monopoly and a Tommy Hilfiger jacket.

The backpack was discovered on Friday in Central Park. As we reported on Thursday, the backpack is an Everyday Backpack from Peak Design … a bag meant for serious photographers but designed for casual use as well.

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New Yorkers mockingly celebrated the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Washington Square Park with a truly tasteless shooter look-a-like contest — as the frantic manhunt for the brazen killer entered its fourth day.

Eight contestants donning hooded outerwear and face masks were surrounded Friday by dozens of onlookers, whose cheers amounted to votes in the nose-thumbing stunt.

The winner, whose green jacket and face covering made him a dead ringer for the cold-blooded assassin, said he headed toward the park after hearing about the contest that morning.

“I got no looks until I got over here and now everyone wants a picture with me,” he told The Post.

“He’s the one,” one onlooker remarked as he was introduced as “contestant number six.”

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