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Luigi Mangione @PepMangione
"Being smart makes you more prone to confirmation bias.
In retrospect, it shouldn't have been surprising. Confirmation bias is what happens when the little lawyer in your head takes control of your thinking process—and smart people have a very smart little lawyer in there."
3:58 AM · Jan 24, 2024·266.6K Views
https://x.com/PepMangione/status/1750080669563367860
NYC Mayor Eric Adams calls for rules limiting face covering use in wake of shooting
Adams told a Monday afternoon news conference he thinks people wearing face masks should pull them down and show their faces when entering shops and taxis.
Mangione was wearing a Covid-style face covering in many of the surveillance images police used to track him down.
This obscuration proved a major roadblock in their search, Adams said.
'Last year or earlier this year we called to say, when you go into a business or establishment, ask people to temporarily remove their mask,' he said.
'We can close these cases in hours if everybody would cooperate.'
It was the image of Mangione briefly seen without his face covering at a Starbucks which led to his identification by a McDonald's employee in another state.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14174379/brian-thompson-unitedhealthcare-ceo-latest-hunt-pennsylvania.html
Pictured: Fake ID found on Luigi Mangione
Police recovered a fake New Jersey driving license from Mangione when they detained him in Altoona on Monday.
Mangione had been using multiple fake IDs, including the below license issued in June, where he is posing as 'Mark Rosario'.
Who is Luigi Mangione? Scion of Baltimore family questioned in United CEO’s killing
Luigi Mangione is from prominent Baltimore family and 2016 Gilman School valedictorian
Authorities are questioning a 26-year-old man from Towson in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, law enforcement officials said.
New York police identified the man as Luigi Nicholas Mangione, who they said was born and raised in Maryland, with ties to San Francisco. He lived in Honolulu, Hawaii, until recently.
Mangione was the Gilman School valedictorian of 2016, and a scion of a prominent Baltimore-area family whose interests reach from development to politics and civic life.
In his valedictory speech, he praised the school for instilling in him the “incredible courage to explore the unknown and try new things,” according to an excerpt from his speech on the school website. That same year, Mangione was featured in a Baltimore Fishbowl article spotlighting local valedictorians, where he outlined his ambition to study artificial intelligence.
The headmaster of Gilman School issued a statement Monday, calling the revelation “deeply distressing.”
“We recently became aware that the person arrested in connection with the killing of the United Healthcare CEO is a Gilman alumnus, Luigi Mangione, Class of 2016,” Henry P.A. Smyth said. “This is deeply distressing news on top of an already awful situation. Our hearts go out to everyone affected.”
Mangione had writings that appeared to be critical of the health insurance industry, a law enforcement official told the Associated Press.
He had a gun thought to be similar to the one used in the killing, the official said. Along with the gun, police found a silencer and fake IDs, according to the official.
Police apprehended Mangione after receiving a tip that he had been spotted at a McDonald’s near Altoona, Pennsylvania, about 233 miles (375 kilometers) west of New York City, said the official, who was not authorized to discuss details of the investigation and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.
His late grandfather, Nicholas Mangione Sr., was a self-made real estate developer who owned country clubs, nursing homes and a radio station. And his grandmother Mary, who died in 2023 from Parkinson’s disease, was described in an obituary as a hospital benefactor and a music patron.
They purchased Turf Valley Country Club in 1978, establishing it as a golf course resort and residential community, and later Hayfields Country Club in 1986.
Family businesses also include the Lorien Health Services nursing homes and radio station WCBM-AM. Mary Mangione was a supporter of the Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore, Greater Baltimore Medical Center, the old Baltimore Opera Company and the Walters Art Museum, eventually becoming a Walters trustee. Del. Nino Mangione, a Baltimore County Republican, is a cousin, his office confirmed to WBAL
Thompson, 50, was killed last Wednesday in what police said was a “brazen, targeted” attack as he walked alone to the Hilton from a nearby hotel, where UnitedHealthcare’s parent company, UnitedHealth Group, was holding its annual investor conference, police said.
The shooter appeared to be “lying in wait for several minutes” before approaching the executive from behind and opening fire, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. He used a 9 mm pistol that police said resembled the guns farmers use to put down animals without causing a loud noise.
In the days since the shooting, police turned to the public for help by releasing a collection of photos and video — including footage of the attack, as well as images of the suspect at a Starbucks beforehand.
Photos taken in the lobby of a hostel on Manhattan’s Upper West Side showed the suspect grinning after removing his mask, police said.
Ammunition found near Thompson’s body bore the words “delay,” “deny” and “depose,” mimicking a phrase used by insurance industry critics.
Monday’s development came as dogs and divers returned to New York’s Central Park while the dragnet for Thompson’s killer stretched into a sixth day.
Investigators have been combing the park since the Wednesday shooting and have been searching at least one of its ponds for three days, looking for evidence that may have been thrown into it.
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On Friday, police found a backpack in the park that they say the killer discarded as he fled from the crime scene to an uptown bus station, where they believe he left the city on a bus.
On Monday, K-9 units sniffed leaf-covered planters between walking paths in Central Park near where police found the shooter’s backpack. Farther along the path that police believe the suspect took through the park after the shooting, scuba divers geared up and began searching a pond for the third straight day.
Retracing the gunman’s steps using surveillance video, investigators say the shooter fled into Central Park on a bicycle, emerged from park without his backpack and then ditched the bicycle.
He then walked a couple blocks and got into a taxi, arriving at at the George Washington Bridge Bus Station, which is near the northern tip of Manhattan and offers commuter service to New Jersey and Greyhound routes to Philadelphia, Boston and Washington, D.C., NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said.
The FBI announced late Friday that it was offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction, adding to a reward of up to $10,000 that the NYPD has offered. Police say they believe the suspect acted alone.
Late Saturday, police released two additional photos of the suspect that appeared to be from a camera mounted inside a taxi. The first shows him outside the vehicle and the second shows him looking through the partition between the back seat and the front of the cab. In both, his face is partially obscured by a blue mask.
Through the park search, the NYPD has taken steps to minimize disruption to visitors, leading to an odd juxtaposition of joggers, tourists and an active crime scene.
On Monday, a small section of the park was cordoned off with blue and white police tape, giving divers an area to change and enter the water.
At one point, a group of about 30 French-speaking tourists followed a guide down a path, but they couldn’t go any farther because of the police tape. Before turning back, many of them whipped out their phones to snap photos of the diver crew.
12/9/2024 1:40 p.m. EST, Updated 12/9/2024 3:13 p.m. EST
https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/national/luigi-mangione-united-ceo-killing-3PUAWJU4JNCPBPA5BOMTUENAVE
Luigi Mangione
Utilitarian Ethics vs Virtue Ethics:
Utilitarian: The action is good if the consequences are good
Virtue: The action is good if it’s what a virtuous person would do
Poll results indicate respondents’ moral frameworks
Homicide: worse consequences
Rape: worse virtues
12:14 PM · Mar 9, 2024
https://x.com/PepMangione/status/1766512931582124371
>cousin
>cousin
ANTONINO D. (NINO) MANGIONE
Republican, District 42A, Baltimore County
Member of House of Delegates since January 9, 2019 (representing Dist. 42B, Jan. 9, 2019 to Jan. 11, 2023; representing Dist. 42A since Jan. 11, 2023). Member, Appropriations Committee, 2019- (health & social services subcommittee, 2019-22; oversight committee on pensions, 2019-22; education & economic development subcommittee, 2023; transportation & the environment subcommittee, 2023-; oversight committee on personnel, 2023-); Special Joint Committee on Pensions, 2023-.
Born in Baltimore County, Maryland. Attended Calvert Hall High School, Baltimore, Maryland; Towson University, B.A. (political science), cum laude, 2009. Web manager, WCBM radio, 2018- (host, "The Six at 6 with Nino Mangione," 2017-18).
https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Members/Details/mangione01
https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/06hse/html/msa18040.html
Luigi's mom in Getty Photo:
The Italian Trade Commission Celebrates the Opening Night of L'Eleganza Del Cibo
NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 23: (L-R) Susan Sidor, Vincent De Paul,Kathy Zannino Mangioneand Kim Giulio attend The Italian Trade Commission Celebrates the Opening Night of L'Eleganza Del Cibo at Chelsea Market on June 23, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/susan-sidor-vincent-de-paul-kathy-zannino-mangione-and-kim-news-photo/542868004
Luigi's mother Kathleen Zannino Mangione owns a boutique travel company specializing in the Mediterranean
https://kzmneterprises.com/about-your-fabulous-tour-concierge/
Luigi's maternal grandmother's Obit
Maria G. Zannino, funeral director
UPDATED: June 7, 2019 at 8:10 PM EST
Maria G. Zannino, a longtime Highlandtown funeral director who played a prominent role in numerous Italian social and cultural organizations, died Saturday from complications of heart disease at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. She was 80.
“Maria was so wonderful that everyone looked up to her. She was always so kind and found the good in people,” said Jo Anne Aiello Ditch, a longtime friend and former city dockmaster who lives in Easton.
“And as a funeral director, she had compassion. When my father died, we went to the funeral home and she was so compassionate to my mother at such a terrible time,” said Mrs. Ditch.
The daughter of a cobbler and a Hutzler’s department store woman’s clothing sales associate, the former Maria Santa Glorioso was born in Baltimore and raised on Keyworth Avenue in the city’s Park Heights neighborhood.
After graduating in 1951 from Seton High School, Mrs. Zannino earned a diploma from the Walter’s Modeling Academy. She studied piano for four years at the Peabody Conservatory of Music.
At the time of her marriage in 1957 to Joseph N. Zannino Jr., a funeral director and embalmer, she was working as an executive secretary to the controller and treasurer of the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
In 1961, she and her husband moved into the Joseph N. Zannino Funeral Home, which they had built at 263 S. Conkling St. in Highlandtown. They raised their eight children in a family quarters on the second and third floors and had still resided there.
“She raised eight children who at one time or the other worked in the family business in some capacity, her son Charles being the licensed funeral director and embalmer along with his father,” said a daughter, Rosemarie Zannino “MiMi” Law of Germantown.
After completing an apprenticeship under her husband, Mrs. Zannino passed a state board examination and became a licensed funeral director but not an embalmer.
Her role was managing the business, which had been established by her husband in 1958, and helping families arrange and plan for funerals.
“She always handled the business end and was still giving directions and looking at spread sheets when she was in the hospital two weeks before her death,” said Ms. Law.
“My mother could look at a bank statement and find an error. She could add up figures in her head quicker than you could put them into a calculator. She had such an eagle eye for figures,” she said.
“Maria had this ability to listen and be compassionate with people and help them get through a difficult time,” said retired Baltimore Circuit Judge Edward J. Angeletti, another longtime friend, who got to know Mrs. Zannino when he joined the Sons of Italy in the late 1960s.
In addition to her professional life, Mrs. Zannino was a highly visible and active member in the city’s Italian community.
She received numerous awards for her years of service to the Order of the Sons of Italy in America, for being instrumental in the formation of many lodges. She played a key role and coordinated Italian festivals at Rash Field and Columbus Day parades in Baltimore for decades.
As a board member, Mrs. Zannino brought her organizational skills and financial expertise to the American Council of Italian Matters, the Italian-American Organizations United, and the American Society of Italians and Friends.
She was an active supporter of Our Lady of Pompeii Roman Catholic Church and St. Leo the Great Roman Catholic Church.
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“When she was involved with the Italian Festival, it drew 700,000 to 800,000 people to the Inner Harbor,” said Judge Angeletti.
“Police Commissioner Frank Battaglia said he wouldn’t do an Italian Festival unless he had Maria in a trailer counting the money, Shirley Pastore, Jo Anne Ritmiller and me. He called the four of us ‘Frankie’s Angels,'” said Mrs. Ditch.
“We held big spaghetti dinners to raise the first money for Signal 13. Whatever he wanted, he got fundraising help from us,” she said.
Mrs. Zannino was especially devoted to leading fundraising efforts for children with disabilities through the Kennedy Krieger Institute and the March of Dimes, which included serving as chairman of its Southeastern Division.
“She always included her children and neighborhood children as we wanted to help our mom by making a lemonade stand in front of our family funeral home and drawing a poster to encourage neighbors to donate for the March of Dimes,” said Ms. Law.
“This is just one example of how our mother inspired and motivated her children and countless other children and adults to think beyond themselves and help others in whichever modest or grand way they were able,” she said.
Mrs. Zannino also enlisted her children in stuffing cannoli shells and selling homemade sausage sandwiches to raise money for charities at cultural events in the city.
“She shared the Italian-American spirit of civic duty and cultural awareness as we dressed in provincial costumes and performed tarantellas and sang traditional Italian songs for thousands who attended the festivals she helped organize at the Inner Harbor, parades and other venues,” she said.
“She was very warm and friendly,” said Judge Angeletti. “She was a good listener and she’d draw you to her. And if it were the first time, she’d make you feel like she had known you for years.”
While Mrs. Zannino enjoyed vacationing in Ocean City and playing cards, her hobby was “fundraising,” said Ms. Law. “She was driven by her principles.”
Mrs. Zannino was a communicant of Our Lady of Pompeii, Claremont and Conkling streets, where a Mass of Christian burial will be offered at 11 a.m. Thursday.
In addition to her husband and Ms. Law, Mrs. Zannino is survived by four sons, Joseph N. Zannino III of Rosedale, Charles S. Zannino of Baltimore, Dominic Zannino of Reisterstown and Salvatore Vincent DePaul Zannino of Los Angeles; three other daughters, Felicia Zannino Baker of Washington, Kathleen Zannino Mangione of Towson and Salvatrice Zannino Marziale of Abingdon; a brother, Joseph Glorioso of Perry Hall; 15 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/2013/08/28/maria-g-zannino-funeral-director/
>ties to San Francisco
remember NP's father was Mayor of Baltimore
>Nicholas was born in Baltimore's Little Italy
Liugi's grandfather
Coincidence?
>Coincidence?
Both Pelosi and our [possible] "assassin" have roots to Baltimore's Little Italy.
AI on "Pelosi and United Health Insider Trading"
The claims of Pelosi’s involvement in Thompson’s alleged testimony … lack credible evidence.
https://nypost.com/2024/12/04/us-news/slain-unitedhealth-ceo-brian-thompson-was-facing-doj-probe-for-insider-trading-report/
Gilman Class of 2016 Honored at 119th Founders Day
Each year the leading scholar from each Middle and Upper School grade is awarded a William S. Thomas Scholarship Prize. This year’s Upper School recipients, pictured from left, are: Matthew Z. Mu ‘18, James Clayton Hebert ‘17, Luigi Nicholas Mangione ’16 (valedictorian), and William Carrington Dowling ‘19. Photo Credit: Steve McDaniel
https://baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/gilman-class-of-2016-honored-at-119th-founders-day/
Luigi is pictured with his mom Kathleen and dad Louis (both in purple) and sister MariaSanta (in burgundy) at a San Diego wedding ceremony
Luigi Mangione is a person of interest in the killing of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thomson
>Why do we already know more about the CEO shooter than we do about Crooks 5 MONTHS later?
NP planned CEO shooter
C_A planned Crooks
Watch: Country Music Star George Strait Performs ‘Trump Dance’ During Las Vegas Concert
Country music star George Strait performed the “Trump dance” during a recent concert in Las Vegas — the latest instance of President-elect Donald Trump’s signature campaign boogie being copied by prominent public figures since his election victory.
George Strait was performing Saturday at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas when he busted out the Trump moves.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDXSE6uOzDC/
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2024/12/09/watch-country-music-star-george-strait-performs-trump-dance-during-las-vegas-concert/