Prosecutors blast Mangione’s ‘misleading’ bid to force Bondi off case with death penalty at stake

Federal prosecutors person rejected "meritless" arguments from accused assassin Luigi Mangione’s ineligible squad claiming Attorney General Pam Bondi has a struggle of involvement and should person recused herself owed to anterior ties to a lobbying firm, up of a cardinal proceeding successful his national case.

The defense, successful erstwhile filings, has accused Bondi of "prejudice" against the suspect and claimed that her erstwhile presumption arsenic a spouse astatine Ballard Partners, a lobbying steadfast with ties to the institution of Mangione's alleged target, UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, should pb to her recusal.

"When Ms. Bondi near Ballard Partners to go the Attorney General successful 2025, the precise archetypal suspect she personally selected to beryllium executed was the antheral accused of sidesplitting the CEO of her erstwhile client," defence lawyer Karen Friedman Agnifilo wrote successful a December filing.

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Luigi Mangione appears successful Manhattan Supreme Court for a suppression proceeding arsenic some sides hole to wrapper up arguments connected Dec. 18, 2025.  (Curtis Means for Daily Mail via Pool)

Prosecutors, however, called her claims "incomplete and misleading."

Bondi nary longer works there, they wrote, is not being paid by the steadfast oregon its clients and was not influenced by immoderate "corporate interests" erstwhile the DOJ decided to question the decease punishment against Mangione if helium is convicted.

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A subordinate of the NYPD Crime Scene Unit takes a representation of a ammunition casing recovered astatine the country wherever UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was changeable and killed successful Midtown Manhattan successful New York City connected Dec. 4, 2024. (REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton)

Mangione is owed successful national tribunal Friday for a presumption league expected to interaction connected a scope of different issues, too.

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Although his lawyers person dropped their question to suppress statements helium made to constabulary earlier and aft his apprehension astatine a Pennsylvania McDonald's, the defence is inactive hoping to suppress damning grounds recovered from Mangione's backpack without a hunt warrant.

Federal prosecutors person countered that the suspected execution limb and allegedly incriminating journals wrong would person inevitably been discovered aboriginal — adjacent if Altoona constabulary hadn't searched it astatine the scene.

UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson pictured successful an undated representation provided by UnitedHealth. The enforcement was changeable from down and killed connected his mode to an capitalist league successful New York City successful what prosecutors person described arsenic a politically motivated assassination. (AP Photo/UnitedHealth Group via AP)

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The defence has asked the justice to let a aboriginal evidentiary proceeding connected the dispute, which the DOJ maintains is unneeded.

Legal experts person said constabulary bash not typically request 1 erstwhile they hunt a container arsenic portion of the apprehension process.

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Other pending defence motions see attempts to driblet 2 of the 4 national charges against Mangione, including the astir serious, execution done usage of a firearm.

Earlier this week, national nationalist defender Paresh Patel joined Mangione's ineligible squad arsenic a peculiar counsel for the Friday hearing. Patel is simply a Maryland-based appellate attorney.

Luigi Mangione pictured successful a Pennsylvania booking photo. (Pennsylvania Department of Corrections)

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Surveillance video shows a antheral attack the 50-year-old Thompson from down and weapon him down extracurricular a Manhattan edifice that was expected to big a shareholder league aboriginal that morning.

The Minnesota nonmigratory was a joined begetter of two.