A 36-year-old man was arrested in New York, accused of having tried to impersonate an FBI agent, the American federal police, to free Luigi Mangione, accused of having killed the CEO of the health insurer UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson, in December 2024.
According to information from the Associated Press, Mark Anderson, a resident of the city of Mankato, in the state of Minnesota, was indicted on Wednesday (28) after appearing at the Metropolitan Detention Center, in the New York district of Brooklyn, and telling prison officials that he was an FBI agent with documents signed by a judge authorizing Mangione’s release.
According to the complaint, when Anderson was asked to show his credentials, he produced his Minnesota driver’s license and said he carried weapons. The guards arrested him, searched him and found a barbecue knife and a round blade in a backpack.
Prosecutors added that Anderson threw documents toward the guards that appeared to contain accusations against the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
Mangione was indicted on 11 state counts and four federal counts for shooting Thompson as he left an annual UnitedHealthcare investor conference at a New York hotel on Dec. 4, 2024.
When he was arrested days later in Pennsylvania, the man, now 27 years old, was carrying a kind of manifesto against health insurers. If convicted, Mangione, who has become an idol of left-wing radicals, could receive the death penalty.
