Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, has retained a high-powered New York attorney and former CNN legal analyst to represent him, Fox News Digital has learned.
Friedman Agnifilo previously worked as the chief assistant district attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office for seven years and has experience in New York City’s criminal justice system.
Friedman Agnifilo has three decades of experience in criminal justice, litigation and trials, according to Agnifilo Intrater.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said there were indications Mangione may waive his extradition next week.
Blair County District Attorney Peter Weeks in Pennsylvania said his office is prepared “to do what’s necessary” to move Mangione to New York.
Fox News Digital has discovered that Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, has hired a prominent New York lawyer and former CNN legal analyst to defend him.
Mangione is facing a second-degree murder charge in New York for the Dec., and Karen Friedman Agnifilo will be his attorney. A representative for Friedman Agnifilo has confirmed that there was a shooting in Manhattan.
Friedman Agnifilo has experience with the criminal justice system in New York City and was the chief assistant district attorney for seven years in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. She has been employed at Agnifilo Intrater LLP in private practice for the last three years.
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In an official statement, the spokesperson stated that “Karen Friedman Agnifilo of Agnifilo Intrater LLP has been officially retained to represent Luigi Mangione in New York.”.
“Miss. A longtime veteran of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, Friedman Agnifilo was the Chief of the Office’s Trial Division for four years and the second-in-command for seven years under DA Cyrus Vance. “.”.
According to Agnifilo Intrater, Friedman Agnifilo has thirty years of experience in criminal justice, litigation, and trials.
Defending clients in state and federal courts and prosecuting violent crimes, including complicated homicide cases, are the main areas of her practice.
Additionally, she represents individuals in Title IX cases, which protects people from sex-based discrimination, as well as plaintiffs in civil and employment cases. She is also an expert in internal investigations concerning sexual assault, discrimination, and misconduct.
“Msdot Friedman Agnifilo played a key role in the establishment of the Manhattan DA’s office’s Cybercrimes and Identity Theft Bureau, Human Trafficking Unit, Hate Crimes Unit, Antiquities Trafficking Unit, Terrorism Unit, and in the establishment of Manhattan’s first Mental Health Court,” according to her biography.
The news that Friedman Agnifilo is Mangione’s attorney comes as investigators have discovered new evidence in recent days, such as the fact that police have determined that the 3D-printed gun Mangione was carrying at the time of his arrest matches the three shell casings discovered at the Midtown Manhattan crime scene. His fingerprints were also identical to those on objects close to the shooting site.
Mangione, who was arrested on gun-related charges in Pennsylvania, is still detained there while he fights extradition to New York. Mangione may decide not to be extradited next week, according to signs, according to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
Mangione was taken to the Huntingdon State Correctional Institution on Tuesday after a Pennsylvania judge refused to grant him bail.
In Pennsylvania, the suspect is also charged with forgery, carrying a firearm without a permit, lying to the police, and having “instruments of crime.”. Along with the murder charge, prosecutors in New York also charged him with three counts of illegal weapons possession and forgery.
The Pennsylvania district attorney for Blair County, Peter Weeks, stated that his office is ready “to do what’s necessary” to relocate Mangione to New York.
Following the murder of the insurance CEO, a former WAPO reporter declares, “We want these executives dead.”.
Thomas Dickey, Mangione’s Pennsylvania lawyer, has denied that his client is accountable for the New York murder and feels that he will enter a not guilty plea to the murder charge and other charges in New York. Dickey says Mangione also intends to enter a not guilty plea to charges in Pennsylvania pertaining to gun possession and a forged identification document that was allegedly discovered on him at the time of his arrest.
