Luigi Mangione Accepts Nearly $300,000 in Crowdfunded Donations for Legal Defense
Luigi Mangione Accepts Nearly $300,000 in Crowdfunded Donations for Legal Defense
Luigi Mangione accepted donations from 10,000 people to fund his legal defense after being accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
I want to hope the trial is covered relentlessly, but I know YouTube/Tiktok/Facebook are going to snub it in the algorithms. Reddit will mass ban it.
Not to speak of cable news.
Our best hope is Donald Trump opening his mouth about it, as he doesn’t seem to recognize the Streisand Effect. Then the algos will pick it up.
psst guess where it likely wont be blocked... Peertube.
(Personally im not plugged in there, so I dont know how well it would handle it, but its a nice to think it wont be burried there)
Problem is discoverability. We all want Peertube to succeed, and they have excellent technology, but discovering content there is next to impossible. Otherwise its active user numbers would grow. It’s the same reason Bluesky - for all its flaws - succeeded where Mastodon failed.
Why would they snub a massive driver of revenue?
All the news about Luigi is soooo much more enjoyable than hearing the same type of outrageous US political headlines we usually hear.
And this is actually news! Hope the amount is enough.
ID is set to air a documentary about the alleged murder suspect with interviews from individuals who knew Mangione personally, as well as with New York Mayor Eric Adams, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny, and other experts on the case.
I am curious how they are going to spin this. I would hope they don't demonize The Adjuster, but kinda expecting it because of the money in the health insurance industry.
It's Investigation Discovery.
There is 0% chance it has any pro-Luigi sentiment.
Healthcare industry: “Wait, people had $300k just lying around? We gotta raise our prices!”
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careInsurance industryHealth Insurance =/= Healthcare
Yep, my bad. What he said.
at what point are all expenses covered and we're just paying for the lawyer's second yacht?
I dont think you know how the american legal system works
Someone (the state, unitedhealthcare, or just about anyone) will just sue him over and over again for the most ridiculous reasons until he has no money left or he commits suicide. There are no precautions for that scenario, so it will very likely happen.
Not sure why you think this, they’d need a lawsuit with merits and standing. And if you do it enough there wrong way, the court can absolutely protect whoever it is you’re suing or they can counter sue.
Or even more realistically, Luigi can make his court appearances and ignore the lawsuits. At some point paying a lawyer to harass people with no money isn’t worth it. You can also waste their time as much as they waste yours and cost them money. Just get a cheap lawyer and tell them you’ll pay them to waste as much of their time as possible and it works. Your case may take 5-10 years to resolve that way.
Or you can just leave the country. Which sucks but it’s better than being harassed all the time and bankrupt.
... are you serious? And you think I don't know the legal system? What makes you think he's ever going to walk? And why are you talking about theoretical legal expenses decades down the line?
Res judicata...
Crowdfunding fixing the problems in American healthcare AGAIN
https://www.givesendgo.com/legalfund-ceo-shooting-suspect
Wanna help get those numbers up?
Love how this is actually uplifting
Orphan Crushing Machine
If Luigi signs every Dollar he can probably sell those on EBay and double or more the amount.
Why not just start LuigiCoin?
“The American private health insurance industry has ruined countless lives by denying people access to basic care and burying families in medical debt,” said D4 Legal Committee spokesperson Sam Beard in a statement.
Sam Beard of the Party Girls podcast btw.
Here's a clip of him on CNN.If you were poor and given an opportunity to become a doctor but get paid only as much as a housekeeper, would you do it?
Luigi should be freed because the subject in question decides to pay the doctor far more than a nurse but at the same time they take an even larger chunk for doing nothing at all. All this does is ensures the patient dies or becomes a working slave or dies slowly after becoming homeless.
If you make 200k you'll still find it hard to pay 10k a month or whatever these people want. If you make 50k and are sole provider you're so very much screwed.
Even if you make 200k, paying 10k a month would be just about your entire take-home pay.
I do not make that much, but my insurance pays out something close to $300K a year for my normal monthly meds. Chronic conditions in the US ftw.
Ok well howabout this idea. Starting crowd funds to put out hits on the remaining health insurance and big pharma CEO's. Fuckin drop a name and for $300,000 ill make them gone.
Could have gone to people in medical debt because of insurance companies because, you know, he's from a wealthy family and doesn't need money...
He saved blue cross patients far more on surgical anesthesia by now.
https://www.npr.org/2024/12/05/nx-s1-5217617/blue-cross-blue-shield-anesthesia-anthem
Clearly what Luigi did works, only positive change to our health insurance confidence scheme of a healthcare system in our lifetimes, however slight.
Thank you Luigi! You showed us the only thing that seems to work on capitalists. Fear.
What about the people who never got their treatment because the insurance company wouldn't authorize it up front?
I have serious permanent damage to my vision in one eye because the insurance company would not approve the medication my doctor chose. Now, years later, I am on that initial medication my doctor chose and it works great. I spent a couple years trying two other medications first and they were horrible.
Fair point.
I suppose it's pretty cool in a symbolic way, but you're not wrong.
Not sure why you got downvoted so much but that's true, no matter how many people like Luigi. Now our best hope is that he uses that money to help people :/
Couldn't disagree more.
our best hope is no jury convicts him and he's let go. The threat of continued violence like what happened with Brian Thompson may scare healthcare execs into doing the right thing. That's our best hope. Not 300k of chump change handed out to a few of the multitude of people with medical debt in this country.
Legal defense "oh, sorry kid, the cost is $300,001. Guess you gotta do what the government decides...."
Meanwhile that lawyer is taking a bribe from the government to not represent Luigi.
For the record, I'm not in favor of this. I just know how these things go. Government thinks it's above the people. Just ask Martin Luther King. Oh wait, you can't. And not from old age either, as I realize that by 2025 it would have been plausible to die of old age. No, you couldn't ask him in 1964.
That’s not how these things go.
Don't waste your mental health getting mad about things that haven't happened
What? The article doesn't even suggest that his legal defense isn't going to represent him.
It’s a bit rambled, but I suspect they’re talking more about out the issues with the legal system and its control by the ruling class rather than any specific mentioned in the article.
I made things up and then the things I made up made me angry 😡
Meanwhile that lawyer is taking a bribe from the government to not represent Luigi.
Considering that that's something that explicitly results in disbarment, and that an incompetent or deliberately poor legal defense is grounds for a new trial, I highly doubt that this would occur.
There are ways around these consequences, of course, but there would be very few defense attorneys willing to risk their career to facilitate a win for the government. I suppose blackmail isn't out of the question, if they want to go down that road, but that's highly speculative and conspiratorial.
Celebrating the murder of an unarmed man is not "uplifting". You should all be ashamed of yourselves.
The person he killed was responsi6for many deaths. His big push as CEO was specifically to deny care to people with medical needs that were paying his company specifically so they would have medical care.
When legitimate means of justice are denied, people will eventually take matters into their own hands. And when millions of people support that vigilante justice, it means the law is failing. This whole incident should be seen as the canary going silent. Shit's about to get bad on the streets.
Legitimate means of justice are denied? You live in country with the rule of law, a constitution that dates back 240 years, regular changes of government during all that period. And as an aside, you're all but drowning in material abundance. Do you realize how fortunate and privileged you already are compared to most of the world's people? What is this utopia that you need in order to be able to agree with the simple proposition that it's wrong - always wrong - to kill unarmed defenseless people in the street?
Brain Thompson's death made me so happy. 🙂 Glad he's rotting.
You should all be ashamed of yourselves.
No thanks. Appreciate the offer though.
I've never been set up for such an enjoyable downvote. Thanks!
You should be ashamed of defending this murderous system that has left us no peaceful recourse due to regulatory capture of both parties and therefore no vote to end it ever. Vote Red, vote blue, it's a vote for murder for profit either way. We don't get a vote on our murderous economy, just the social symptoms that don't effect quarterly metastasis expectations.
You would have this healthcare insurance confidence scam murder their marks who trusted them and paid them in advance in perpetuity when they actually need care and become a threat to profits.
People like you get more offended when people are murdered in a straightforward manner than with a confidence scheme and a claim denial letter. At least a gun is demonstrating honest intent that isn't trying to gaslight people into shutting up as it ends their life prematurely.