HEALTHCARE ASSASSIN LUIGI MANTIONE CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY BEHIND BARS WITH $1.5 MILLION
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 23 May 2026
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
As Luigi Mangione waits for a September 8, state trial date, he celebrated his birthday behind bars. Donors continue to pad his defense fund which now tops $1.5 million dollars. Mangione is accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024, and is preparing for back-to-back trials in New York. His federal trial begins October 13. A New York judge recently issued a split ruling regarding what evidence prosecutors can use at his trial. The judge ruled that the initial warrantless search of Mangione’s backpack at a Pennsylvania McDonald's was improper, suppressing items like a gun magazine, cell phone, passport, and wallet from the state trial. However, the judge determined that a subsequent search of the bag at the police station was a valid inventory search. This allows prosecutors to present a 3D-printed pistol and a notebook containing statements about targeting health insurance executives. Mangione has pleaded not guilty to all state and federal charges. He faces up to life in prison if convicted.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:03.4 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.7 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:12.6 | The spoiled brat millionaire, the so-called health care assassin Luigi Mangione, |
| 0:19.8 | is celebrating his 28th birthday right now behind bars with $1.5 million in donation. |
| 0:30.2 | Wow, that's some birthday. |
| 0:32.1 | I'm Nancy Grace. |
| 0:32.9 | This is Crime Stories. |
| 0:34.0 | I want to thank you for being with us. |
| 0:36.2 | The so-called health healthcare assassin who gunned down |
| 0:39.4 | United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a husband, a father, and Broad Dealight on the sidewalk in |
| 0:46.7 | Manhattan, received a $28,000-38 donation just a few days ago from a guy named Carl putting Luigi's jailhouse |
| 0:59.0 | winnings at a whopping $1.5 million. |
| 1:03.8 | Well, that's certainly something to celebrate, isn't it? |
| 1:06.2 | As he celebrates his 28th birthday behind bars. |
| 1:10.6 | I wonder what Brian Thompson's boys will be doing when they turn |
| 1:15.0 | 28, maybe reading the internet about how their father was gunned down in cold blood. That said, |
| 1:22.7 | what's happening with the trial? In an effort to prevent a jury from seeing a 3D printed gun allegedly |
| 1:29.0 | used to murder United Health Care CEO Brian Thompson, Luigi Manjone's legal team argues that local |
| 1:34.6 | police in Pennsylvania illegally searched their client's backpack when he was arrested in Altoona McDonald's. |
| 1:40.7 | Manjone also wants to exclude the red notebook with handwritten notes and anything else found in the backpack in his possession at the time of his arrest. |
| 1:48.2 | Manjoni claims officer searched his backpack at the McDonald's and continued searching the bag once he was transported to the Altona Police Station, all before seeking a search warrant later in the day. |
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