The family of Luigi Mangione, 26, the suspect in the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, has been identified as a member of “beloved” Baltimore royalty. The family had a history of donating millions of dollars to health care, an industry whose negligence allegedly led Mangione to murder Thompson.
In a three-page memo, Mangione said the United States has “the most expensive health care system in the world,” but that the country ranks “42nd in life expectancy,” New York City police officials said. It is said that he lamented. NYPD intelligence officials believe the Ivy League veteran's grievances with United Healthcare and other health insurance companies were a motive for his murder. He has previously talked on social media about undergoing spinal fusion surgery, which may have left him mentally exhausted.
Inside the wealthy Mangione family
According to the Baltimore Banner, Mr. Mangione is the grandson of a billionaire who made his fortune as a real estate developer and later expanded into nursing homes, hospitals and office buildings. A prominent Maryland family has a vast business portfolio.
Mangione is the grandson of the late family patriarch Nick Mangione Sr., who once told the Baltimore Sun about his Italian immigrant father and his upbringing. Yet I became a millionaire. ”
'What other country could do this? I can't think of anything,' he added.
Mangione Sr.'s vast business network ranged from developing and owning local resorts and country clubs to radio stations and nursing homes. According to the Washington Post, the family acquired Turf Valley Country Club in 1978 and built it into a full-service resort and conference center. It is now known as Turf Valley Resort, with the addition of a hotel, spa, and other amenities. They also built what became known as Hayfields Country Club in 1986. The site is operated as a golf course and wedding venue, and is also home to residential development.
Both he and his wife Mary were prominent philanthropists and were loved and respected locally. They donated more than $1 million to Greater Baltimore Medical Center, where all 37 of their grandchildren were born. This was the motivation for the facility to name the maternity ward after the family.
The Mangione Family Foundation has also made large donations to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center. Loyola University's pool is also named after Manjonedo. Nick and Mary had 10 children, six of whom attended local colleges.
The family's personal dynasty does not end here. Notably, his grandson, Nino Mangione, serves as a member of the Maryland State House of Representatives.
“It's a shock to all of us.”
Relatives and friends are upset by Mangione's arrest, especially given the family's “excellent” reputation. Not only that, but his anger towards an industry that was so dear to his grandparents' hearts was shocking.
“It's a shock to all of us,” Jerry O'Keefe, Luigi's uncle, told the New York Post. “I can't say it anymore. This statement sums up how we all feel. We don't know anything more than what's being reported in the media.”
Mangione's family released a statement saying, “We send Brian Thompson's family our prayers and ask everyone to pray for everyone involved.'' We are shocked by this news. ”
Mangione is accused of shooting Thompson on a Midtown sidewalk last week. He was charged in Pennsylvania with a number of crimes, including forgery, unauthorized possession of a firearm, tampering with records or identification, possession of instruments of crime, and providing false identification to law enforcement. In New York, he was charged with murder, possession of a loaded firearm, possession of a forged instrument and possession of a firearm silencer.
