Luigi Mangione Discussed Healthcare, Media Coverage With Officer

Apparently, Luigi Mangione‘s been fairly chatty behind bars since his arrest final yr … a minimum of based on one officer, who spoke throughout Luigi’s pretrial hearing Monday.

Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Officer Tomas Rivers stated he was sitting 2 ft away from Luigi’s 8-foot-by-12-foot cell when the 2 sparked up a wide-ranging dialog about healthcare … and the media’s notion of the notorious capturing.

According to Rivers, that they had an off-the-cuff dialog about non-public healthcare versus nationalized healthcare … after Luigi had simply been arrested on suspicion of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson with a firearm.

Rivers testified Luigi had loads to say in regards to the polarized methods several types of media have been viewing the capturing.

As … whereas some conventional retailers considered the killing as an appalling, cold-blooded murder, many on social media and in the true world heralded the occasion as a heroic act, appointing the alleged assailant to ironic sainthood because of the alleged injustices dedicated by the healthcare business.

Rivers stated, on the time, Luigi was notably upset by seeing comparisons made between him and the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski.

After his December 2024 apprehension, Luigi was initially locked up at a state correctional establishment in Pennsylvania, however later extradited to New York and transferred to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.

When requested why Luigi was moved, Rivers answered that MDC has extra safety to forestall any extortion of Luigi or any “Epstein-like incident.”

Rivers stated he writes down Luigi’s actions 7 instances an hour — probably an effort to forestall a suicide or an important hole in his recorded actions, as with the Jeffrey Epstein case.

This is the first time Luigi’s been in court since mid-September. Prosecutors got here out weapons blazing — so to talk — exhibiting footage of Thompson being blown away on a Manhattan sidewalk.