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Luigi Mangione retains high-powered New York attorney as he faces second-degree murder charge Updated 9:59 PM EST, Fri December 13, 2024 Karen Friedman Agnifilo will represent him in New York. Friedman Agnifilo previously worked as the chief assistant district attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office under Cyrus Vance Jr. for seven years and is a veteran with deep experience in New York City’s criminal justice system. She has worked in private practice since 2021. “She’s got as much experience as any human being, especially in the state court,” one longtime New York prosecutor told CNN. “She knows every corridor, every judge, every clerk in the courthouse.” <SKIP> A representative for Friedman Agnifilo declined to comment on who is paying his legal fees. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/13/us/luigi-mangione-new-york-attorney-retained/index.html

McKinsey is a privately held corporation. Its only shareholders are partners.

Constitutional Amendment: In the 1886 case Ex parte Garland, the (US Supreme) Court referred to the President’s authority to pardon as unlimited except in cases of impeachment, extending to every offence known to the law and able to be exercised either before legal proceedings are taken, or during their pendency, or after conviction and judgment. https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S2-C1-3-1/ALDE_00013316/

There is a constitutional right to US Presidential pardons and -- once effected -- there is no mechanism for a challenge.

He has not been charged with a federal crime and -- if Biden wants to pardon him -- he would have to be so charged before Biden leaves office Jan 20, 2025

Mangione has not been charged with a federal crime.

From Lakeland, FL Polk County which went 60% for Trump 2024.

Pal Joey Rodgers & Hart 1940

Re: "people can only be pushed so far" there is no record that Mr. Mangione was a UnitedHealthcare policy holder individually or through employment or that he had any financial problems regarding his back surgery whether covered by insurance or not. The only record seems to be his mention online that he was treated for irritable bowel syndrome by BlueCross/BlueShield. So, this does not seem to be a case that someone was 'pushed' by a personal experience with a healthcare insurer denying coverage.

Not yet: 12 DEC 2024 -- FBI Director Christopher Wray told employees at an internal town hall on Wednesday that he is resigning, according to sources familiar with the meeting. He said he is stepping down at the end of the current Biden administration. (my bold) "After weeks of careful thought, I've decided the right thing for the Bureau is for me to serve until the end of the current administration in January and then step down. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fbi-director-chris-wray-resigning-amid-pressure-trump/story?id=116653050

I'll add these: Anatomy of a Murder (1959) Bullitt (1968) The Verdict (1982 -- David Mamet screenplay)

The story (closely) is that she went to and tried to crash the 2000 Grammy awards at Radio City and was spotted by a limo driver for one of the named accused. She was invited to and claims she signed a non-disclosure agreement to get into the afterhours party. She then eventually escaped the premises and called her father from a nearby gas station. Just me guessing a lot of this depends on the credibility of the father as to contemporaneously receiving a call from his daughter.

It seems under the Vacancies Act as above, Wray has handed Trump a nice going away present in that it would much better for Trump if Wray had waited until AFTER Patel had been confirmed (if he eventually is) to resign or be fired rather than on the (morning of) the day that Trump takes office. While others would be qualified for an immediate interim appointment, Patel would not be.

But according to the Vacancies Reform Act of 1988, on the day Wray would resign, he cannot be replaced by Mr. Patel.

Jay-Z was added to the lawsuit, first reported by NBC, that was originally filed in October as one of several anonymous complaints by Buzbee. Many of the lawsuits did not survive because the plaintiffs declined to be named; however, in this case, the judge said the then-13-year-old showed sufficient cause to continue anonymously. https://abcnews.go.com/US/jay-diddy-accused-raping-13-year-girl-civil/story?id=116584539 NB: The lawsuit is filed under New York’s Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Act

And one of the big costs for physicians and hospitals is malpractice insurance.

The graphic I posted above says that Mr. Thompson was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai West (formerly Roosevelt) Hospital at 7:12 AM. So I guess they were in on it.

Well that is US CDC data. I was more interested in that there was a suggestion that MSM was somehow massaging the manifesto output on a pollical slant, And the manifesto itself compares life expectancy data.

The MSM may think releasing the whole thing -- not that most people are going to actually read it -- could prove prejudicial at trial. And maybe like Hegseth's mother, the writing was just a temporary indiscretion. I have noted that a California pension fund holding UnitedHealthcare Group stock has filed a lawsuit over the alleged insider trading by the late Mr. Thompson and others.

From the manifesto but not quoted in the MSM: A reminder: the US has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy. Not good. But this is a (coloried) map of life-expectancy by US state as of 2020: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr71/nvsr71-02.pdf

From the movie Clear and Present Danger -- Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan: [Jack needs a helicopter] Jack Ryan: I'm here to rent the Huey. Helicopter owner: We don't rent it anymore, but it is for sale. Jack Ryan: How much? Helicopter owner: Two million dollars. Jack Ryan: Uh, my pilot and I will have to take it for a test drive. Helicopter owner: Of course, you just have to leave a deposit. Jack Ryan: How much is that? Helicopter owner: Two million dollars.

Going back to OP, that 90% figure was misstated: The 90% refers to the number of denials of one very specific Medicare Advantage coverage in that 90% of denials which were formally appealed were reversed. The type of Medicare Advantage insurance with which Mr. Thompson over saw -- much as with CVS/Aetna and Humana -- dealt with "post-acute care facilities.” Covered persons could receive per Medicare mandate up to 100 of post-inpatient care days following a minimum of 3 days impatient. A big difference in USA and Thailand is that in USA you can have inpatient surgery and be sent home in 1-3 days e.g. for hip replacement whereas in Thailand at a private hospital you can spend a week inpatient for the same. And post-operative care is judgment call of a patients physician i.e. when is the person is stable enough to go home with only minimal/family care. That 'judgment call' is pretty much the root cause of all 3 big insurers relying upon AI models based up millions of outcomes as referenced in the OP.

Maybe in not publishing the entire 292 word manifesto the MSM is trying to protect those named liberal icons Apple, Google, (&) Walmart.

Mangione said that 'it had to be done' so that settles that. Mangione's writings, obtained by ABC News, addressed to the "Feds," said, "I do apologize for any strife of traumas but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming." https://abcnews.go.com/US/luigi-mangione-charged-murder/story?id=116623608

Thank you. Not sufficiently amazed.