Luigi Mangione prosecutors fire back on ‘eavesdropping’ claim

The U.S. authorities denied "eavesdropping" connected UnitedHealthcare CEO execution fishy Luigi Mangione's recorded jailhouse calls successful a Monday tribunal filing aft his defence attorneys claimed national officials shared his calls with the New York County Attorney's Office (DANY).

Mangione's New York-based defence attorney, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, said during Mangione's Friday arraignment that 1 of his jailhouse calls with her was recorded and "eavesdropped on" by a subordinate of the DANY’s team, noting that the DANY bureau informed her that 1 idiosyncratic listened to the call. 

"To beryllium sure, nary 1 astatine DANY oregon the Government ‘eavesdropped’ connected the suspect connected a unrecorded basis," national prosecutors wrote. "Rather, accordant with well-known signifier successful national and authorities jails, galore of the defendant’s calls are recorded, with announcement of the signaling provided to him and the idiosyncratic connected the different broadside of immoderate calls."

Prosecutors added that "a fig of calls" betwixt Mangione and Friedman Agnifilo "were provided by the Metropolitan Detention Center ('MDC') to the Government – and by the Government to DANY – due to the fact that the suspect spoke to his counsel connected a recorded and monitored jailhouse enactment (not a enactment specially designated for lawyer calls) and with counsel utilizing a telephone fig that was not identified arsenic belonging to counsel (thus evading MDC’s process for filtering lawyer calls earlier providing them to the Government)."

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Luigi Mangione appears successful Manhattan Criminal Court for a presumption proceeding successful New York City connected Feb. 21, 2025. Magnione is accused of sidesplitting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. (Curtis Means/Pool)

"In immoderate event, nary subordinate of the national prosecution squad has listened to immoderate signaling of immoderate lawyer call, and the Government has segregated each recordings of these lawyer calls truthful that they cannot beryllium accessed further," prosecutors wrote.

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The authorities said it is "standard practice" for jailhouse calls to beryllium recorded done MDC's telephone system, Trufone network, which plays a signaling whenever a suspect makes a telephone stating that the telephone is being recorded and is taxable to monitoring. The authorities has truthful acold received 2 sets of recordings successful the Mangione lawsuit from MDC, which it past provided to DANY.

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Luigi Mangione appears successful Manhattan Supreme Court successful New York City connected Dec. 23, 2024. (Curtis Means for DailyMail/Pool)

Prosecutors further said the 2 sets of recordings contained 1 telephone telephone betwixt Mangione and his attorney, who "did not look connected the Trufone interaction database that the MDC provided to the Government."

On April 22, 2025, a paralegal astatine DANY was reviewing the recorded calls and "encountered this telephone betwixt the suspect and Ms. Agnifilo (using the Agnifilo Number) and recognized it arsenic an lawyer call."

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Luigi Mangioni is escorted from an NYPD chopper successful New York City, Dec. 19, 2024. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)

"The paralegal instantly stopped listening and reported the contented to the prosecution squad astatine DANY, who promptly notified Ms. Agnifilo and 1 subordinate of the prosecution squad astatine the Government," prosecutors said. "No 1 other from DANY and nary 1 astatine each from the Government ever reviewed this oregon immoderate different lawyer call. The Government has present segregated this circumstantial audio signaling to forestall immoderate further inadvertent access, and it understands DANY has done the same."

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Fox News reached retired to Friedman Agnifilo for comment.

Mangione pleaded not blameworthy to national charges successful a Manhattan tribunal connected April 25 successful transportation with UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's Dec. 4, 2024, murder.

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UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was killed connected Dec. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/UnitedHealth Group)

Mangione was indicted successful the Southern District of New York connected charges of stalking and murdering Thompson, arsenic good arsenic utilizing physics communications, interstate question and a firearm erstwhile helium allegedly killed the healthcare security CEO.

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The fishy allegedly changeable Thompson extracurricular the Manhattan edifice wherever UnitedHealthcare's yearly shareholder league was being held, successful an enactment prosecutors judge was meant to nonstop a connection to the healthcare security manufacture based connected a manifesto recovered connected the fishy erstwhile helium was arrested days aft Thompson's murder.

Luigi Mangione departs the courtroom pursuing his arraignment successful New York City Criminal Court connected Dec. 23, 2024. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)

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If the 26-year-old is convicted of execution done the usage of a firearm, Mangione could look the decease penalty, arsenic national prosecutors person indicated successful tribunal filings.

Fox News' Adam Sabes contributed to this report.