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NEW YORK — The suspect within the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO has added a distinguished protection lawyer to his authorized group as Manhattan prosecutors work to return him from Pennsylvania to face a homicide cost.
Luigi Mangione will likely be represented by Karen Friedman Agnifilo, who was a high-ranking deputy within the Manhattan district legal professional’s workplace for years earlier than coming into non-public observe.
Friedman Agnifilo’s regulation agency, Agnifilo Intrater LLP, confirmed in an announcement late Friday that she had been retained to characterize Mangione. The agency stated she is not going to be commenting on the case presently.
Mangione was arrested Monday after a buyer at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, noticed him consuming breakfast and seen a resemblance to the individual being sought by police within the Dec. 4 killing of Brian Thompson in Manhattan.
Police say Mangione was discovered with a gun, masks and writings linking him to the ambush exterior the New York Hilton Midtown, the place Thompson was arriving for his firm’s annual investor convention.
Mangione, 26, remained jailed with out bail Saturday in Pennsylvania, the place he was initially charged with gun and forgery offenses. Altoona is about 230 miles (about 370 kilometers) west of New York City.
Mangione’s lawyer there, Thomas Dickey, has cautioned towards prejudging the case and stated that his consumer would contest his extradition to New York.
But Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg stated Friday that there have been indications Mangione could now quit on that struggle.
“We going to proceed to press ahead on parallel paths, and we’ll be prepared whether or not he’s going to waive extradition or whether or not he’s going to contest extradition,” Bragg stated at an unrelated press convention in Times Square.
Hours after Mangione’s arrest on Monday, Bragg’s workplace filed paperwork charging him with 5 counts, together with intentional homicide, prison possession of a weapon and prison possession of a solid instrument.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has stated she’s ready to ask her Pennsylvania counterpart, Gov. Josh Shapiro, to intervene and situation a governor’s warrant requiring Mangione’s extradition if he doesn’t conform to be moved voluntarily.
Mangione’s new lawyer, Friedman Agnifilo, was the Chief Assistant District Attorney from 2014 to 2021 and was beforehand chief of the workplace’s trial division. She has made frequent TV appearances, together with as a CNN authorized analyst, co-hosts a weekly podcast and is the authorized adviser for “Law & Order.”
Her husband and regulation accomplice Mark Agnifilo is representing Sean “Diddy” Combs within the hip-hop mogul’s Manhattan federal intercourse trafficking case.
