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UnitedHealthcare CEO murder suspect Luigi Mangione suggests evidence ‘planted’ after arrest (www.washingtonexaminer.com)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/news

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Prosecutors highlighted “about $10,000 — $8,000 in U.S. dollars and then $2,000 in foreign currency that was found on his person,” CNN correspondent Danny Freeman said following the court hearing.

“Also they said that he had a Faraday bag,” which blocks cell signals, a move that prosecutors alleged marked “an indication of criminal sophistication and reason they should hold him on bail,” Freeman continued.

After prosecutors made the claims, Mangione said he would like to “correct two things.”

“I don’t know where any of that money came from — I’m not sure if it was planted. And also, that bag was waterproof, so I don’t know about criminal sophistication,” the suspect said in a statement that suggested police framed him.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Sounds to me like they couldn't catch the real shooter but they snared a doplerganger and figured they could frame him up fast based on his social media. It doesn't make sense, his family are millionaires.....the boomers might buy this crap, but anyone gen x or younger isn't going to believe this for one minute.

[–] x00z 4 points 10 hours ago

Oh god it would be funny if the real shooter would make a video dropping some unrevealed provable facts and exposing the government if that would be true.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

but they snared a doplerganger and figured they could frame him up fast based on his social media.

doppelganger* and please drop the unwarranted conspiracies jfc. I'm sure there is more to the story but you're quite literally making shit up.

[–] saruwatarikooji 6 points 7 hours ago

I'm sure there is a lot more to the story but the dude was called in because he sort of resembled the pictures and a Karen min wage worker thought he was a little sus... Add in that she immediately tried to claim the reward.

Also, the sheer amount of damning evidence found on him is incredibly suspicious... That was all in his backpack... The day after they found the backpack in central park full of monopoly money. Absolutely nothing about this manhunt and suspect makes sense. Even accounting for social media misinformation this whole thing is almost too much satire to be real.