Luigi Mangione lawyers renew bid to toss death penalty charge, alleging Pam Bondi has a conflict of interest

Lawyers for Luigi Mangione connected Friday renewed and expanded their effort to person the decease punishment thrown retired successful his case, arguing Attorney General Pam Bondi has a disqualifying fiscal struggle of interest.

In tribunal filings reviewed by Fox News Digital, the defence argued that Bondi’s calls for the decease punishment pursuing Mangione’s apprehension were improper due to the fact that she was antecedently a spouse astatine Ballard Partners, a lobbying steadfast that represented UnitedHealth Group, the genitor institution of slain CEO Brian Thompson.

The defence argues Bondi continues to person fiscal benefits done Ballard’s profit-sharing program and should person recused herself from immoderate determination successful the case.

"Her nonaccomplishment to bash truthful intelligibly violated the owed process rights of Mr. Mangione and provides yet different crushed wherefore the Notice of Intent should beryllium stricken," the filing states. A proceeding is scheduled for Jan. 9.

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Attorney General Pam Bondi, left, and Luigi Mangione are shown successful a divided image. Mangione’s lawyers argued successful a tribunal filing that Bondi should person recused herself from the determination to question the decease punishment successful the national case. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images; Curtis Means for Daily Mail via Pool)

Bondi announced successful April that she was directing Manhattan national prosecutors to question the decease penalty, declaring adjacent earlier Mangione was formally indicted that superior punishment was warranted for what she called a "premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America."

"The Attorney General personally directed enactment prosecutors to question the decease punishment successful a nationalist property merchandise delivered via societal media and past appeared connected nationalist tv to assertion that, based connected her ain acquisition arsenic a superior crimes prosecutor, Mr. Mangione deserved to beryllium executed," the defence wrote successful the Friday filing.

"This is simply a doorbell that tin ne'er beryllium unrung," the defence said.

Mangione’s attorneys further argued that erstwhile Bondi near Ballard Partners to go lawyer wide successful 2025, the archetypal suspect she "personally selected" for superior punishment was the antheral accused of sidesplitting the CEO of her erstwhile client.

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Luigi Mangione, charged with the execution of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, appears successful State Supreme Court successful Manhattan during an grounds suppression proceeding successful his lawsuit connected Dec. 12, 2025. Mangione is being represented by Karen Friedman Agnifilo, left. (William Farrington for New York Post via Pool)

Mangione is accused of sidesplitting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson connected Dec. 4, 2024, extracurricular a Manhattan edifice wherever the institution was hosting an capitalist conference. The execution-style shooting was caught connected camera and prosecutors allege that Mangione targeted Thompson owed to fiscal and firm grievances. Mangione fled the country but was captured days later.

This is not the archetypal clip Mangione’s defence has sought to person the decease punishment thrown out.

In October, attorneys argued prosecutors could not prosecute the decease punishment due to the fact that the underlying stalking complaint does not suffice arsenic a convulsive crime.

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Luigi Mangione is accused of sidesplitting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, pictured, successful December successful New York City. (AP Photo/UnitedHealth Group via AP)

Mangione’s lawyers archetypal moved successful aboriginal 2025 to artifact the decease penalty, arguing the determination was governmental and prejudicial — not the effect of a neutral DOJ reappraisal — and aboriginal filed a much elaborate April question seeking to onslaught the death-eligible counts, accusing Bondi of prejudging guilt done nationalist statements, earlier centering the statement connected an alleged fiscal conflict.

He is being represented by Karen Friedman Agnifilo, a high-profile New York defence lawyer who is besides a erstwhile Manhattan authoritative and erstwhile CNN ineligible analyst.

The Justice Department did not instantly respond to a petition for remark from Fox News Digital.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.