Luigi Mangione’s Legal Defense Fundraiser Tops $1 Million

A fundraiser for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing the CEO of UnitedHealthcare in New York last year, has raised over $1 million. The fundraiser surpassed that milestone on Tuesday, Mangione’s 27th birthday, and comes as his legal defense has sought to get much of the evidence obtained by police when Mangione was arrested tossed out. The $1 million has come from over 28,000 individual contributions, with a median donation of about $20, according to a press release from the fundraisers at GiveSendGo. Other fundraisers started on more mainstream crowdfunding sites like GoFundMe were shut down for violating their terms of service. Mangione is accused of shooting Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, on the morning of Dec. 4, 2024, when the health care executive was walking to a conference in Manhattan. The death of Thompson was captured on security camera footage at the Hilton hotel in Midtown and kicked off a manhunt over the course of the next week before Mangione was ... Read full article.