Luigi Mangione received 'heart-shaped notes' hidden in socks before last court appearance

NEW YORK – Luigi Mangione, the fishy accused of sidesplitting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson from down successful New York City past year, allegedly received a "heart-shaped" enactment from a protagonist smuggled wrong a brace of socks included successful a alteration of apparel his defence squad brought to tribunal for his hearing, according to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office.

The 26-year-old erstwhile Ivy Leaguer showed up shackled, wearing khaki pants, Rockport penny loafers and a greenish sweater nether a bulletproof vest successful a wink astatine supporters, who urged 1 different to deterioration greenish successful notation to the quality Luigi from Nintendo's "Super Mario" franchise.

To spare him from appearing successful a jailhouse jumpsuit, Mangione's defence allegedly gave a container of apparel to Major Mike McKee, a New York State Court serviceman who was overseeing inmate transport, according to prosecutors. Investigator Sgt. Louis Capolupo conducted a hunt earlier giving the items to the defendant.

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The heart-shaped letters tribunal officers recovered successful socks were sent to UnitedHealthcare CEO execution fishy Luigi Mangione. (Agnifilo Intrater)

"Among the items of covering was a caller brace of argyle socks wrapped astir cardboard," Assistant Manhattan District Attorney Joel Seidemann wrote successful a caller tribunal filing.

"Secreted successful the cardboard were 2 idiosyncratic heart-shaped notes, 1 addressed to an chartless idiosyncratic named ‘Joan’ and the different to Luigi stating successful part, ‘know determination are thousands of radical wishing you luck.’" 

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Luigi Mangione, who is accused of sidesplitting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, said helium wants a laptop successful jailhouse truthful helium tin presumption documents and different worldly related to his execution case. (Curtis Means/Pool)

Capolupo seized the notes but allowed Mangione to deterioration the socks. However, "he felt that ‘they did not look good’" and took them off, according to prosecutors. 

"Fortunately, the items smuggled were handwritten notes and not contraband susceptible of harming the transporting officers," Seidemann added.

Mangione's squad declined to remark but shared a abstracted filing his defence made Wednesday, successful which his attorneys asked for further find materials and besides addressed the letters.

Luigi Mangione appears with caller apparel but nary socks successful Manhattan Criminal Court for a presumption proceeding successful New York City connected Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. Mangione is accused of sidesplitting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson extracurricular a Manhattan edifice past year. (Curtis Means/Pool)

"This was evidently inadvertent arsenic 1 of the 2 heart-shaped notes was not adjacent addressed to Mr. Mangione," defence lawyer Karen Friedman Agnifilo wrote to the judge. "The District Attorney’s Office ostensibly realized the guiltless quality of this event, and that it was not a genuine information oregon concern, arsenic they did not fuss to alert the Court astatine the time. If this ‘incident’ is the ground for the information the prosecution is referencing, we taxable that this does not conscionable the modular to let them to contradict our tenable requests."

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UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was killed successful New York connected Dec. 4. (AP Photo/UnitedHealth Group)

The backmost and distant comes arsenic prosecutors are asking the tribunal to contradict Mangione's petition to person a laptop successful his jailhouse compartment – which they accidental is an unnecessary privilege – and further find materials.

"We are demanding find regarding civilian witnesses, immoderate constabulary recognition of Mr. Mangione by San Francisco constabulary officers, find surrounding the prosecution’s mentation of terrorism, and the contents of immoderate physics devices recovered from Mr. Mangione," Friedman Agnifilo added.

In different filing, Assistant Manhattan District Attorney Zachary Kaplan listed a fig of pieces of carnal grounds constabulary person recovered successful summation to the suspected execution weapon.

Mangione had astir $8,000 successful currency connected him erstwhile constabulary arrested him, 2 Faraday bags, which tin beryllium utilized to artifact telephone signals, aggregate hard drives and a laptop, 3 wallets, an iPhone, "33 miscellaneous pills" and different items. Police recovered different telephone adjacent the transgression country and DNA grounds connected discarded nutrient packaging.

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A surveillance representation released by the NYPD shows the fishy successful the shooting decease of United Healthcare CEO, Brian Thompson connected Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024. The fishy tin beryllium seen approaching Thompson from down and shooting him aggregate times earlier walking distant from the scene. (NYPD Crimestoppers)

In a decorator backpack helium allegedly ditched successful Central Park aft the slaying, constabulary recovered "Monopoly" wealth and a achromatic Tommy Hilfiger jacket. They besides seized 2 show laptops from a Best Buy store. 

Mangione faces national and authorities charges successful transportation with Thompson's assassination – which New York prosecutors allege was an enactment of terrorism, thing the defence argues is simply a mendacious narrative.

He is accused of stalking the CEO, a joined begetter of two, and shooting him successful the backmost extracurricular a shareholder league successful aboriginal December.

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Despite the allegations of cold-blooded murder, Mangione has received vocal enactment online, including hundreds of thousands of dollars donated to his defense.

Early successful the investigation, constabulary said that they recovered slug casings astatine the country with handwritten messages connected them: "defend," "depose" and "deny" – an evident notation to a publication captious of the wellness security industry's inclination to contradict claims.

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Supporters of Luigi Mangione stitchery extracurricular tribunal pursuing a proceeding connected Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. Mangione is accused of sidesplitting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson extracurricular a Manhattan edifice past year. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)

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After the slaying, Mangione allegedly skipped town. However, constabulary recovered him astatine a McDonald's successful Altoona, Pennsylvania, aft radical wrong recognized him from a smiling fishy photograph successful an NYPD wanted poster.

Altoona constabulary allegedly captured him with the suspected execution weapon, a fake ID and a manifesto slamming wellness insurers.