Mangione defense team accuses police of fabricating mother's quote implicating him in CEO murder case

Luigi Mangione's defence squad is demanding prosecutors clarify whether his parent really told constabulary the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was "something she could spot him doing" — oregon if instrumentality enforcement fabricated the wide reported punctuation and, successful the defence team's view, made a "highly prejudicial mendacious statement."

At contented is simply a Dec. 17, 2024 quality briefing wherever NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said that during a monolithic manhunt for Thompson's suspected killer, a extremity involving a missing idiosyncratic lawsuit successful San Francisco led them to their suspect.

Mangione's parent reported him missing to San Francisco constabulary connected Nov. 18, 2024, Kenny said. The detective moving that lawsuit called his NYPD counterparts and said the idiosyncratic helium was looking for "bears a resemblance" to the representation of the smiling fishy seen checking into a Manhattan hostel earlier Thompson's murder.

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Luigi Mangione appears successful Manhattan Supreme Court for a proceeding connected Sept. 16, 2025, successful the execution lawsuit filed against him for sidesplitting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. (Curtis Means for DailyMail/Pool)

Investigators past reached retired to Mangione's parent connected Dec. 7, 2024.

"They had a speech wherever she didn't bespeak that it was her lad successful the photograph, but she said it mightiness beryllium thing that she could spot him doing," Kenny told reporters. "So that accusation was going to beryllium passed on to the detectives the adjacent morning, but fortunately we apprehended him earlier we could enactment connected that."

Kenny's remarks were wide reported by large quality outlets, including Fox News Digital, and they were cited successful a publication published this period astir the case.

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Mangione's defence argued successful a caller tribunal filing that they person not been provided immoderate find documents related to this allegation involving his mother, Kathleen Mangione.

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UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was killed successful December 2024. (AP Photo/UnitedHealth Group via AP)

"To date, determination has been nary documentation provided successful find that confirms the Chief of Detectives' connection arsenic to Mrs. Mangione's alleged statement," 1 of his lawyers, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, wrote to a New York authorities judge. "In fact, each the find provided truthful acold indicates that she did not marque specified a statement."

She added that she could spot lone 2 plausible explanations — 1 that the connection was ne'er made, oregon two, that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's bureau had failed to conscionable its find obligations.

Bragg's bureau did not instantly respond to a petition for remark from Fox News Digital.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg arrives astatine Daniel Penny’s proceedings pursuing a luncheon interruption astatine the Manhattan Supreme Criminal Court gathering successful New York City connected Monday, December 2, 2024. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)

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"We inquire that the Court nonstop the District Attorney's Office to authorities for the grounds whether Mrs. Mangione made this connection to instrumentality enforcement," she wrote.

Through a spokesperson, Friedman Agnifilo declined to comment.

On Dec. 9, 2024, constabulary successful Altoona, Pennsylvania, received a extremity that idiosyncratic recognized Mangione from a wanted poster and that helium was eating meal astatine the section McDonald's.

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They arrested him there.

Fox News' Brooke Curto contributed to this report.