Crime

The Daily Beast reports: The mother of Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old man accused of killing UnitedHealth Care CEO Brian Thompson in New York City on Dec. 4, told the FBI that her son could be the person in surveillance photos circulated by police a day before he was arrested, according to reports. Mangione’s family reported him missing to the San …

NBC News reports: One of the internet’s most popular crowdfunding platforms, GoFundMe, is removing any campaign in support of Luigi Mangione, the man alleged to have shot and killed the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, while a Christian alternative is promoting one such fundraiser on its front page. GoFundMe is refunding donors who contributed to the campaigns. NBC News found three fundraisers …

Florida Politics reports: Patrick Bailey, the former Treasurer for the Hillsborough County Republican Party, has been arrested on charges of third-degree grand theft and false entry in books of business. Bailey is accused of illegally transferring funds and writing himself personal checks from the GOP’s business account. He was arrested Thursday in Brandon by the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office’s Economic …

Monterrey’s ABC affiliate reports: Santa Cruz police said they arrested a man believed to have set fire and who carved a homophobic slur at a newly opened LGBTQ+ pub. 45-year-old James Eason was arrested and booked into Santa Cruz County Jail for a hate crime, arson and vandalism. He was already in police custody for an unrelated crime, said police …

The San Francisco Chronicle reports: San Francisco police recognized the man suspected of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Midtown Manhattan as possibly being Luigi Mangione and contacted the FBI four days before his high-profile arrest, two sources familiar with the matter told the Chronicle. Authorities have said that when Mangione was arrested Monday at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pa., …

The Washington Post reports: The pool of money, which includes $50,000 from the FBI and $10,000 from New York Police Department Crime Stoppers, could be awarded to an unidentified fast food worker, who called 911 after recognizing 26-year-old Luigi Mangione inside a McDonald’s restaurant in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Federal agencies require a conviction before payment, but local Crime Stoppers units might offer …

Courthouse News reports: A former FBI informant agreed to plead guilty to lying to his handler in 2020 about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden receiving $5 million in bribes each from a Ukrainian energy company. Alexander Smirnov admitted to causing the creation of a false and fictitious record in a federal investigation as well as to three …

Politico reports: The Justice Department sent a message Wednesday to Jan. 6 defendants: Accepting a pardon from Donald Trump is “a confession of guilt” for your crimes. “[A] pardon at some unspecified date in the future … would not unring the bell of conviction,” federal prosecutors argued in a Jan. 6 case before U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols. “In fact, …

The Associated Press reports: The suspect in the killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO plans to fight extradition to New York to face murder charges, but officials hope to get him back with what’s called a governor’s warrant. The process could happen quickly or take more than a month. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office on Wednesday had not yet asked …

Huntsville’s ABC affiliate reports: A former pastor at a Decatur church was sentenced to 20 years in prison for sodomy, a Morgan County circuit judge told News 19. Danny Duane Pitts was found guilty of second-degree sodomy by a Morgan County jury on October 24. On Wednesday, Circuit Judge Charles B. Elliott sentenced Pitts to 20 years in the Alabama …

ABC News reports: A New York Police Department bulletin issued Tuesday emphasized the heightened risk environment for health care executives following last week’s brazen killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Viral posts online have listed the names and salaries of several health insurance executives, multiple “Wanted” signs featuring corporate executives have been posted throughout Manhattan and users on social …

The New York Times reports: Luigi Mangione, who has been charged with killing Brian Thompson, the chief executive of UnitedHealthCare, was found with a notebook that detailed plans for the shooting, according to two law enforcement officials. The notebook described going to a “bean-counter” conference and killing an executive, the officials said. “What do you do? You wack the CEO …

CNN reports: A book published in 2010 critical of the US insurance industry — and whose title appears similar to words found on shell casings near where UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was killed — has risen to number two on Amazon’s nonfiction best sellers list. The book, “Delay, Deny, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don’t Pay Claims and What You Can …

The New York Times reports: If you owned a phone in America over the last 40 years, there is a good chance you got a call from Richard L. Zeitlin. He ran a telemarketing empire out of Las Vegas, using computers that mimicked human callers to raise money for charitable and political causes. Police and police dogs. Vietnam veterans and …

The New York Times reports: A suspect charged with murder in New York in the assassination of the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare in Midtown Manhattan will fight extradition to New York to face murder charges, potentially keeping him in custody in Pennsylvania for weeks. “He is contesting it,” said his lawyer, Thomas Dickey. The suspect, Luigi Mangione, 26, was charged …

CBS News reports: Luigi Mangione, the suspect in last week’s killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s in New York City, is expected to face an extradition hearing on murder charges on Tuesday afternoon. He is currently being held without bail in Altoona, Pennsylvania, where authorities say the extradition process could take days, if not weeks. Investigators are now pouring …

Courthouse News reports: The man who used his power as a religious leader in a small Arizona town to marry and repeatedly rape 10 underage girls for nearly two years will spend the next 50 in a federal prison. The young women once victimized by Samuel Rappylee Bateman faced him in a Phoenix courtroom for the last time Monday afternoon. …

The Baltimore Banner reports: The Mangione family is “shocked” by the arrest of Luigi Mangione, according to a statement shared on social media late Monday night. In a statement, the family said it could not comment on “news reports regarding Luigi Mangione,” a Maryland native, who was arrested on gun charges in Pennsylvania on Monday morning and is a person …

ABC News reports: Luigi Mangione has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week, according to an online court docket. Mangione, a 26-year-old from Maryland, was arrested by police in Altoona, Pennsylvania, for gun charges ahead of him being charged by the New York Police Department on Monday. The NYPD also charged Mangione …

“This guy was obviously looking for notoriety. And good, he’s got it. Now, he’s a prep school kid. He’s politically connected in Maryland. But this guy’s not ready. He’s way too soft. He’s gonna get annihilated on the inside and good. If he’s not gonna get the death penalty, maybe someone will do him justice behind bars. That’s all I …