Luigi Mangione Says Pam Bondi Has Financial Ties to Murder Victim's Company
Luigi Mangione To Pam Bondi You Have A Conflict Of Interest ... Kill The Death Penalty!!!
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Luigi Mangione says he now knows the real reason why Attorney General Pam Bondi is seeking the death penalty against him ... she allegedly has deep ties to the murder victim's health care company.
Mangione's defense attorneys filed court docs Friday night outlining their new claims against Bondi to get the death penalty tossed from the federal case. Federal prosecutors charged Mangione with stalking and murder through use of firearm in connection with the 2024 fatal shooting of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson.
Bondi then issued a statement directing prosecutors to seek the death penalty. State prosecutors have also charged Mangione with murder and possession of a weapon in a separate case.
In the latest defense filing, Luigi's lawyers claim Bondi was a partner at the lobbying firm Ballard Partners before she became attorney general, and the company lists UnitedHealth Group (UHG) as a client.
As a result, Bondi derives and continues to receive personal and financial benefits from Ballard "in the form of a profit-sharing plan from Ballard's professional association with UHG," according to the court docs.
Mangione's lawyers claim that when Bondi left Ballard, her first order of business as AG was to announce that Luigi would face the death penalty for allegedly killing the CEO of her former client.
The defense -- led by the husband-and-wife team of Karen Friedman-Agnifilo and Marc Agnifilo -- goes on to say Bondi's money connection to Ballard is a conflict of interest, which should have prompted her to recuse herself from the case.
The conflict also violates Luigi's due process rights, which should take the death penalty off the table, Mangione's lawyers say.
As you know, the 27-year-old is accused of gunning down Thompson in December 2024 and then changing his story with police before they arrested him at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania. The bodycam footage of the ordeal was released earlier this month ... and also shows him giving authorities a fake ID.
Mangione's 3-week pre-trial hearing for his fight to exclude certain evidence from his murder case wrapped this week -- but a judge won't make a decision for months.
