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Luigi Mangione, the suspect accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, will face federal charges on top of state charges in New York and Pennsylvania.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York on Thursday filed charges against the 26-year-old, including murder through use of a firearm, two stalking charges and a firearms offense.
Mangione’s New York-based attorney, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, questioned the constitutionality of federal charges in a statement. “The federal government’s reported decision to pile on top of an already overcharged first-degree murder and state terror case is highly unusual and raises serious constitutional and statutory double jeopardy concerns,” wrote Friedman Agnifilo. “We are ready to fight these charges in whatever court they are brought.”
The federal criminal complaint includes details from the notebook that police said they found on Mangione when he was arrested. According to the complaint, the notebook contained handwritten pages that “express hostility towards the health insurance industry and wealthy executives in particular,” as well as an entry dated Oct. 22 that refers to an “investor conference” as a “true windfall.”
Mangione was indicted Tuesday by a New York City grand jury on 11 counts, including three counts of murder, two of which label the attack an act of terrorism. He waived extradition at a hearing in Pennsylvania on Thursday and was subsequently brought back to New York, where he is accused of killing Thompson on Dec. 4 in what police say was a targeted attack.
Mangione also faces two felonies and three misdemeanor charges in Pennsylvania, where he was arrested after a dayslong manhunt.
His Pennsylvania attorney, Thomas Dickey, has said Mangione will plead not guilty to all state charges.