Luigi Mangione: The Adjuster?
Luigi Mangione, 26, has been arrested after being identified as the primary suspect in the assassination of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson. He has not yet been charged in the murder; he is being held in Pennsylvania on gun charges, though law enforcement officials expect that he will be extradited to New York.
NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said a gun that was found on Mangione appears to have been a 3D-printed ghost gun. Officers also found a suppressor, “both consistent with the weapon used in the murder,” NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said.
“They also recovered clothing, including a mask consistent with those worn by our wanted individual,” Tisch said. “Also recovered was a fraudulent New Jersey ID matching the ID our suspect used to check into his New York City hostel before the shooting incident."
Law enforcement officials told several media outlets that Mangione had the name "Mark Rosario" on a fake New Jersey drivers license, and that he checked into a hostel in the Upper West Side of NYC using the same name and identification.
Officials said that other fake IDs were found on Mangione after he was reportedly identified by an elderly patron inside of a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania. He also had an American passport on him, according to Tisch, although it’s unclear whether the passport was real.
According to law enforcement sources interviewed by the NY Post, Mangione was arrested with a manifesto on his person consisting of two and a half handwritten pages that appeared to be influenced by quotes Mangione posted on his Goodreads account from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski.
Although it has been widely speculated that Mangione had a personal hatred for insurance companies due to its treatment of a dying relative, online obituaries suggest that he lost a grandmother, aged 80, in 2013, and a grandfather, aged 89, in 2017.
His LinkedIn page does show that he worked in an assisted-living facility for the elderly for a few months in 2014 while he was still in high school. Mangione was reportedly valedictorian of his graduating class at the Gilman School, an all boys prep school in Baltimore where tuition is about $38,000 a year. Here is is giving his graduation speech in 2016.
After high school, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Computer and Information Science, and a Master of Science in Engineering, Computer and Information Science, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Mangione’s LinkedIn suggests he is a data engineer at a company called TrueCar, based in Santa Monica, CA, although he listed his current home as Honolulu in Hawaii, and his Facebook account said he was co-founder of AppRoar Studios, a video game development company in Delhi, India that serves “to provide the simplest and most engaging gaming experience.”
He reportedly stopped working at TrueCar in February 2023, the same year he is believed to have suffered a spinal injury, and his X account has what appears to be an x-ray showing a steel plate and bolts in a spine in his banner.
Although fake accounts have proliferated, his original facebook account, https://www.facebook.com/luigi.mangione.2/, is no longer available. At the time of publication, his X account remains active at https://x.com/PepMangione/.
According to law-enforcement sources, Mangione subscribed to anti-capitalist and climate-change causes, citing his online activity. However, a at closer look his social media suggests that he may resist such easy classifications. His most frequent reposts on X appear to be from author Tim Urban, though he also reposts news articles about eco terrorists and quotes from Peter Thiel and Richard Branson, in between sharing his ideas on how to fix Japan and the “terrible new gods” of Woke-ism unleashed by the decline of Christianity.
According to the Daily Mail, Mangione is the heir to a fortune created by his grandparents, in addition to having a brother and a sister who are both doctors that graduated from prestigious schools. His mother reportedly owns a travel agency.
Mangione comes from a family founded by the late patriarch Nicholas Mangione, a first-generation American who built a business empire spanning from country clubs and real estate to media. He founded the nursing home that his grandson volunteered for in 2014, Lorien Health Services, and owned a funeral home. Nicholas died in 2008 after suffering a stroke, the owner of Turf Valley Resort and Hayfields Country Club, as well radio station WCBM-AM.
Luigi Mangione is also the cousin of Republican Maryland House of Delegates member Nino Mangione, The Baltimore Sun reported. According to CNN, the Mangione family also run a family foundation that has millions of dollars in assets, and were longtime benefactors of Loyola University in Maryland, which named its aquatic center after them.
The Mangione family put out a statement:
In a terrifying development across social media, thousands of people have celebrated this cold blooded killing, hailing Mangione as some kind of folk hero, nicknaming the killer “the Adjuster,” and holding look-a-like contests.
Just days earlier, the Five Eyes, an intelligence-sharing group that consists of agencies from the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, called for a “whole of society” response to the radicalization of Western youth, in its first and only ever jointly authored public paper.
I think people will be less sympathetic when they find out he is filthy rich.