Luigi Mangione’s final act before being hauled into jail by police was to express concern for the McDonald’s worker who ratted him out to law enforcement.
The Alleged CEO killer’s gesture came to light after court documents showed Mangione asking about the worker who reported him to the authorities, ultimately resulting in his arrest.
‘They aren’t going to put the cashier from McDonald’s information out there are they?’ Mangione said, according to court documents.
‘It wouldn’t be good for her. A lot of people will be upset I was arrested.’
Immediately after his arrest at the Pennsylvania fast food joint on December 9, 2024, Mangione apologized for ‘the inconvenience of the day,’ according to court documents obtained by DailyMail.com.
The ‘first words out of Mr. Mangione’s mouth [were] an apology and a concern for the McDonald’s employee’ who is now apparently receiving threats, the docs stated.
Mangione had been accused of being responsible for ‘harassment, backlash, and death threats,’ to certain people, including the McDonalds worker who reported him.
‘However, there is simply no evidence that Mr. Mangione is responsible for any of these threats, directly, indirectly or in any manner,’ Mangione’s legal defense said in a letter to Judge Gregory Carro, according to court filings.
‘Mr. Mangione has been nothing but cooperative, peaceful and has shown concern for others,’ his counsel continued.
‘This is the very opposite of someone who is seeking to terrorize anyone or wishing harm or violence to anyone,’ his defense counsel said.
Mangione’s legal team has made recent bids to grant the accused CEO killer laptop privileges while in custody to review legal material in his cell.
He awaits trial for the December shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
‘The People’ in the case against Mangione claimed that the proposed laptop request was unmerited special treatment, prosecutor Joel Seidemann wrote: ”special treatment to the defendant´s benefit was violated when (prosecutors) made accommodations for defendant’s fashion needs during the last court appearance.’
Mangione is facing a slew of charges in the Big Apple and is also facing lesser charges of false identification and weapons charges in Pennsylvania.
In other recently filed court documents, his attorney Karen Agnifilo argued that police leaked writings they said belonged to the now 26-year-old and labeled them a ‘manifesto’ – thereby spreading fear in an effort to justify prosecutors’ terrorism charge.
The writings were released shortly after Mangione was arrested at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s following a five-day search for the masked man who gunned down Brian Thompson outside a New York City hotel.
He was allegedly found with a 9-millimeter pistol and silencer, clothing that matched the apparel worn by the shooter in surveillance footage, and a notebook describing an intent to ‘whack’ an insurance company CEO, according to court filings.
But Agnifilo now says there is ‘absolutely no evidence’ to suggest her client wrote the so-called manifesto as she called out prosecutors for sharing the message.
‘Since the inception of this case, law enforcement has consistently leaked writings purported to be written by Mr. Mangione, while also prejudicially labeling these writings a “manifesto” to the media,’ she argued.
‘By releasing these writings to the public and calling them a manifesto, law enforcement is responsible for causing the very public alarm that they are now trying to attribute to Mr. Mangione, which is the basis for charging him with the enhanced charge of murder in the first degree as an act of terrorism.
‘There is absolutely no evidence that Mr. Mangione ever released the writings that law enforcement is attributing to him publicly; any publishing was done by law enforcement,’ she continued.
‘By painting Mr. Mangione as a “terrorist” and releasing a purported “manifesto,” law enforcement is intending to prejudice Mr. Mangione and cause the public alarm and fear that they now attribute to him,’ Agnifilo argued.
‘This is problematic and fatal to the government’s charge of murder in the first degree, which requires said murder to be in furtherance of an act of terrorism “intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population,” and insofar as it is law enforcement that is responsible for said intimidation.
‘This behavior by law enforcement is wildly irresponsible, as they are spreading a message to the public intended to incite individuals who may as a result believe Mr. Mangione held purported viewpoints.’