Luigi Mangione, the suspected assassin of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, raged over major healthcare insurance companies’ growing power and claimed they cared only about “immense profit” at the expense of Americans in a handwritten manifesto, according to sources.
Mangione, 26, cited UnitedHealthcare as one of the biggest companies in the US by market capitalization and slammed the health insurance business in the two-and-a-half page manifesto addressed to “the Feds” and recovered by investigators.
“The reality is, these [companies] have gotten too powerful, and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit,” Mangione wrote, according to the sources.
He apologized for any trauma he inflicted — likely alluding to his alleged execution-style shooting of Thompson, 50, in busy Midtown last week — but said “it had to be done.”
“I do apologize for any strife of traumas but it had to be done,” he wrote, according to the sources. “Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming.”
Mangione also wrote that he worked alone in the short manifesto.
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