UnitedHealthcare CEO killed (assassinated) in targeted attack in Manhattan

Corrupt CEO of one of the most corrupt mega-corporations in the US. He was well known in business, financial and political circles.

PATSY!!!!

Thompson was about to turn states evidence on UHC in the justice department's anti-trust probe. That could have yielded a multi-billion dollar settlement and even get congress to pass laws restricting health insurance abuses. Thompson dumped stock when he found out about the investigation. That allowed the feds to pin Thompson with insider trading charges that gave them leverage over Thompson on the broader anti-trust investigation. To get immunity, Thompson was going to turn on his company in a way that has not been seen in possibly all of US corporate crime history. Thompson had to be taken out or else UHC and the other exec who were swept up in all this would have been doomed.

Mangione was set up to take the fall. The shooter knew where the cameras were and made sure that he was not caught from the front on camera when he shot Thompson. Mangione was probably groomed by those working for the assassin and told that he could confront Thompson the day of the shooting outside the hotel, but needed to conceal his identity leading up to the confrontation because Thompson had received threats. But the assassin carried out the hit dressed like Mangione before he had a chance to confront Thompson. Mangione then fled, fearing that he would be pegged as the shooter.

The details behind Mangione's capture just confirm that he was set up. After several days, he only made it to Altoona PA from NYC? Altoona is about a five hour drive from NYC. He still had the murder weapon on him (and it was a 3D printed gun with a silencer that was able to fire several rounds?)? At his bail hearing, he denied possessing $10k (cops planted the money) and made the prosecutor look like a fool when he claimed that Mangione had a special bag that blocked cell transmission (Mangione told the judge "it's just waterproof"). And how in the world was a McDonald's worker able to spot him? Mangione looks like an average white guy with some Mediterranean heritage. In the Northeast, every one out of five white guys similar to Mangione. And then you would have to believe that Mangione, who is reportedly very intelligent, would pull off the perfect crime and then reveal his face to workers at McDonalds so he could eat some hash browns in the middle of Altoona PA?

Great post. None of it adds up EXCEPT the fact that Thompson was obviously a huge liability to a lot of very wealthy criminals running the UnitedHealth racket. He was going to take a plea and rat them all out, so they were forced to ice him.

We don't know yet how Mangione got involved in this, but the nonsensical story that the corrupt NYPD and FBI are feeding us thus far is impossible to believe for most people if they thought about it for more than a minute (which few will do).

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This makes absolutely no sense. Why would a bunch of ultra powerful super rich folks need to concoct such an elaborate ruse? There are so many easier ways to have taken care of this "problem," if said problem actually exists. Further, how is removing Thompson going to prevent another whistleblower from coming forward?

Because murdering someone isn't easy, even for crime syndicates. Ruses are a key component of an assassination, the more elaborate, the better.

What makes absolutely NO sense is this kid traveling up and down Pennsylvania for days with every possible piece of evidence in his backpack, and getting busted by some bozo at McDonalds rather than the hundreds of family and friends who know exactly what he looks like.

Yeah? Go ahead and list them, Capone.

It sure will make them think twice, especially if they are a high-level member of the conspiracy willing to rat. Wouldn't this make you think twice about snitching to the feds?

readin thru alll these dumb @zz post I can tell yall aint never heard of Occam's Razor.

yall need ta shave wit it.

His FIRST COUSIN equals him?

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Daily Mail has an unverified story of Mangione detailing his mother's battle with neuropathy and her problems with UnitedHealth.

Dude...You need therapy.

Validictorian, tech bro, entrepreneur fan. If he was so smart why not start a new health plan company, be a CEO himself, out perform UHC and own a beneficent company. If he was so smart he could have modelled a competing health care company and be the Warren Buffet of that industry instead of what he did and now have nothing.

There are only so many hospital beds, and MRI machines, and doctors in this country. The AMA makes sure of that (that's why health care is so expensive). By denying the bogus and fraudulent claims, United Healthcare freed up those resources and also made health care cheaper for those people who really needed them. Their CEO was a hero, not a villain. Everyone will suffer because of this assassination (except the people in the health care industry who grow richer and richer by doing the exact same thing that all the Mangione fans are claiming Thompson did).

Rupert Pupkin did it right, no blood!

Spoiled rich boy becomes terrorist.

Business school professor defends businessmen. Cool stuff

“Similarly, it is understandable why Americans are angered by the opaque complexities of the healthcare ecosystem; and indeed we have been vocal in

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. Critics have pointed out that many are angry about long-running industry practices that health insurers have used to contain costs, including prior authorization, which requires patients and doctors to get permission from an insurer before a medical procedure, while arguing that UnitedHealthcare’s profits came in part due to suffering by ordinary Americans, pointing out that

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According to the most recent available data, the insurer refused an estimated one-third of claims submitted, prompting an outpouring of frustration after its CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed this week.

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, turning down

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of all claims, twice the industry average of 16%.”

Violence is wrong. Agreed 💯. UHC is awful though. My family has spent hours and days and months fighting them to get the health care it needs. Care doctors have recommended. Sent to departments that don’t answer phones. Countless faxes that “got lost.” Sent down a black hole so that appeals aren’t registered. Criminal. No organization can be that difficult to navigate on accident. All part of systemic resistance. Being upset and angry about that is not Anti-American. Corruption is Anti-American. Murder is Anti-American. But frustration and distrust of companies like UHC is not.

I’m German, but there is one guy on LRC who must have had his wife taken by an Italian guy back in the day. He pops up on any thread with even the slightest Italian angle and makes this comment. You may be him.

What other option did he conceivably have?

If we are to have a society that condemns violence, there has to be a path to justice through other means. I don't see that path right now, so I don't condemn this act, because I believe it moved us closer to a path towards justice. And honestly a path towards less violence as well. One man's murder is not any more violent than all the deaths he caused through his management of an insurance company.