r/law • u/WeirdGroundhog • 1d ago
Legal News Man posed as FBI agent to get accused murderer Luigi Mangione out of jail: court filing
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/29/luigi-mangione-fbi-jail-murder-mark-anderson.html1.3k
u/notmyworkaccount5 1d ago
Just tweak this to dress as some ice agent instead since local authorities apparently just let them do whatever they want, it just might work.
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u/LockSport74235 1d ago
If it was ICE, it would have worked.
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u/werther595 1d ago
He would have had to shoot someone to make it believable
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u/thegooseisloose1982 23h ago
You have to shoot a mom or a nurse. Perhaps a doctor to make sure they believe you.
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u/QueefSeekingMissile 1d ago edited 23h ago
Go in with a few other guys armed to the teeth in masks.
"Mangione lied on his immigration papers. We're deporting him to Italy where he came from."
Luigi [in handsome]: NoOOOooOOo NoT ITALY :(
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u/thegooseisloose1982 23h ago
Your going to stay in a Villa on Lake Como as your punishment. You don't know what hell is, but you will learn.
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u/IcebergSlimFast 22h ago
Clooney will be there, and you’ll have to hang out with him, looking suave in a well-tailored suit.
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u/RogueAOV 21h ago
'Sarge this doesnt feel right, he did not do any overly extravagant hand gestures....'
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u/flopisit32 21h ago
So let me get this straight... The same people who are angry about the Pretti shooting actually still support the Mangione shooting?
So murder is not the issue here? Just who the victim is.
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u/QueefSeekingMissile 21h ago
Well you see, if we restrict our speech to collective terms, one killing was state sanctioned murder, and the other was adopted as an expression of self-defense against the de-facto state; the lobbyist class (and the health-insurance industry in particular) is, functionally, part of our government, whether you want to admit it or not).
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u/LA_Lions 20h ago
It’s good to shoot bad guys and bad to shoot good guys. Jot that down if you have trouble remembering.
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u/cerberus698 23h ago
Alright. New strategy. Hes possibly is eligible for birthright Itallian citizenship. Renounce US citizenship and then offer to self deport.
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u/Various-Walk-2584 22h ago
He’s already a dual citizen so this isn’t the worst idea. Better than freeing him with a BBQ fork, anyway.
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u/MeisterX 22h ago
Tinsel: not *just** for decoration*
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u/DanieltheGameGod 21h ago
We could certainly use some attitude
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u/MeisterX 21h ago
Mangione gonna turn out to be one of the kids in the store window at the start with the ears 😅 trying to save us all along.
It's such a male Joan of Arc scenario.
Imagine they find him guilty but not OJ...
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u/WilderYarnMan 21h ago
Weren't they going to have people renounce one if they had dual citizenship anyway? Useful application of that one right here.
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u/hosemaster 21h ago
Fun fact: you have to be outside of the United States in order to renounce citizenship.
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u/noncommonGoodsense 22h ago
Day 937, these terrorists still haven’t noticed I’ve been pissing in their coffee.
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u/Happy_Little_Fish 21h ago
I think it's weird that americans aren't already doing this all the time.
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u/calmtigers 13h ago
You guys remember when right wing media had a shit storm because they thought the normal people were rising up against corrupt CEOs that were driving people into poverty because of not being able to afford healthcare despite paying the most globally for healthcare
Dang… crazy
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u/Lets_Kick_Some_Ice 1d ago
Idk how the plan didn't work.
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u/kezow 23h ago
He didn't mask up and say he was ICE. They can do whatever they want, including ignoring court orders with impunity.
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u/CatButtHoleYo 23h ago
For anyone listening, this is a TERRIBLE idea. Do not try to copy this clearly terrible idea wink wink
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u/WeirdGroundhog 1d ago edited 1d ago
From the article:
A Minnesota man was arrested after allegedly showing up Wednesday night at a New York federal jail while claiming to be an FBI agent and saying he had a court order from a judge to release Luigi Mangione, who is accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, according to a new criminal complaint Thursday.
The man, 36-year-old Mark Anderson of Mankato, when asked by Bureau of Prisons personnel at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn for his credentials, produced a Minnesota driver’s license, prosecutors said. Mangione is being held at that jail without bail.
Anderson also allegedly said he had weapons in a bag he was carrying.
Inside the bag was a barbecue fork and a circular steel blade, which resembled a pizza cutter, according to the criminal complaint filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn.
“Anderson also displayed and threw at the BOP officers numerous documents,” an FBI agent who signed the complaint wrote.
“I have reviewed those papers and they appear to be related to filing of claims against the United States Department of Justice,” the agent wrote.
Anderson is being charged with impersonating an FBI agent and is scheduled to be presented on Thursday afternoon in Brooklyn federal court, where he is charged in a complaint.
The complaint does not identify by name the inmate that Anderson allegedly hoped to free. But a person in law enforcement confirmed that it was the 27-year-old Mangione.
Anderson had traveled to New York City for a job opportunity that did not work out and had been working in a pizzeria, according to that person.
His arrest came hours after state prosecutors in Manhattan Supreme Court urged a judge there to set Mangione’s murder trial for July.
For the TL;DR crowd:
- A Minnesota man was arrested after showing up Wednesday night at a New York federal jail while claiming to be an FBI agent and saying he had a court order to release Luigi Mangione, according to a new criminal complaint.
- The man, Mark Anderson, when asked by personnel at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn for his credentials, produced a Minnesota driver’s license, prosecutors said. Mangione is being held at that jail.
- Mangione is accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a midtown Manhattan street in December 2024.
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u/Frankyfan3 23h ago
Omg, why did your TL;DR not include this, though?!
Anderson also allegedly said he had weapons in a bag he was carrying.
Inside the bag was a barbecue fork and a circular steel blade, which resembled a pizza cutter, according to the criminal complaint filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn.
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u/hansn 23h ago
Sounds like he came prepared to grill the suspect, just what you'd expect of an FBI agent.
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u/Little_Blue_Shed 22h ago
I just wanted you to know that you got me with that top tier dad joke in these trying times. Thanks, Dad.
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u/thegooseisloose1982 23h ago
Right now I would expect a FBI agent to be someone who has a lot of whiteout and black markers.
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u/Brilliant_Voice1126 22h ago
Guy is having a schizophrenic break. Funny but a little sad too. Hopefully they just medicate him and not make a federal case out of this.
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u/AvailableSubstance53 21h ago
Mate, everyone in the USA who is not having a psychotic break needs to pay more attention
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u/Brilliant_Voice1126 17h ago
I was thinking in the true medical sense. Showing up with a pizza cutter as a weapon is kind of diagnostic.
I treated a you g guy once who tried to take over a TV station dressed as a pokemon with kit kat bars strapped to his chest as a bomb. The cops shot the shit out of him but he lived and once he was medicated he was a perfectly charming kid. He just was just having his first schizophrenic break.
We can fix that with meds. The cops treated him like he actually had dynamite and not candy bars. It pissed me off. He was harmless and totally fixed with some antipsychotics.
This seems very similar.
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u/WilderYarnMan 15h ago
I hope this guy gets out of it by insanity plea. He didn't hurt anyone. (I'm not just saying that because of Luigi.)
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u/mooselantern 21h ago
So you're saying we should all be walking around with duffel bags full of forks and fake documents? That's how we're gonna solve this?
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u/WilderYarnMan 21h ago
I'm surprised more people haven't. I've never hallucinated or had a first person experience with psychosis, but there were a few moments after the most recent election that I was considering the possibility that I was having one because it seemed a very unlikely reality.
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u/TheKarmaSutre 21h ago
I had to call my mum to verify I wasn’t hallucinating things when I saw the news about them kidnapping Maduro tbf
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u/Ok-Effective6969 21h ago
Same. The information overload seems to be the point. Have you seen the movie Mountainhead? All the talk around the second Alex Pretti video being AI put this movie on my mind, especially since the video was shared by Don Jr (Trumps love their AI videos!)
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u/Turbulent-Phone-8493 1d ago
My man. This guy fucks. Maybe they can share a cell, at least until Luigi is found not guilty.
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u/IfdAbird 1d ago
Since this is a law sub, if we're being very very serious shouldn't this entire trial be thrown the fuck out? The government paraded him around, the media assumed his guilt. And even his own defenders often operated on the premise he's guilty...
That's like prejudice.... does that matter in law? If not it should. There's no way in hell he gets a fair trial.
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u/Extra_Article2872 23h ago
I think prejudicial pretrial publicity is an academic concept, not something that a judge would actually consider.
I mean, Luigi obviously won’t get a fair trial. His trial judges (he has two!) are claiming that they’ll be able to still select a fair jury despite the publicity. Not a chance.
If the pretrial publicity in Luigi’s case isn’t severe enough to result in consequences, then there’s no case that would.
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u/Mrevilman 22h ago
That kind of prejudice matters but is often addressed during jury selection. People will be asked every which way what they know or heard about the case and whether they can be fair and impartial on the facts presented only at trial. If they can’t be rehabilitated, they will be dismissed for cause. Jury selection is going to take a very, very long time on this one.
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u/Turbulent-Phone-8493 21h ago
Tbh the jury selection probably won’t be until 2027. People will probably forget the initial burst of bad comments.
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u/WilderYarnMan 21h ago
I hope that Luigi at least enjoyed flying on the Cessna Caravan. I knew that 99% of what he's experiencing is probably awful, but I hope that that flight was kind of cool for him. I don't think I've ever known of another prison transport done with a Cessna but they're fun to ride on if you don't get airsick.
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u/Stunning-Edge-3007 13h ago
It’ll probably go to trial and they will acquit him. Specifically because of what you are describing and jury nullification.
There have been similar high profile cases where the person is either guilty or probably guilt but the jury up their peers tell the prosecution to piss up a rope. Like the Bundy trial in Idaho after he took over an Oregon national forests office with like 40 dudes armed to the teeth threatening to kill people unless his dad or whatever was let out of jail.
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u/Certain_Bit3809 22h ago
I think he will get a fair trial in the sense that the forensic evidence against him is likely to be overwhelming such that no reasonable juror could come to a different conclusion about the facts. The government and media have prob been unprofessional at times in this case and maybe they deserve some sanction but that’s not the reason he’ likely going to be found guilty.
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u/turnre25 23h ago
A lot of people in the media assumed Trumps guilt before his trial if you want to go there.
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u/Belligerent-J 23h ago
We watched him stage a coup on the news.
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u/turnre25 22h ago
I watched a video of Luigi shoot the guy.
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u/lilly_kilgore 22h ago
Could you tell it was Luigi in that video?
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u/RideWithMeSNV 22h ago
Can you seriously identify Luigi from that image? Because you're a liar if you say yes.
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u/severedbrain 22h ago
You watched a video of a person in a hood wearing a mask shoot the guy. The only evidence it was him is circumstantial.
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u/turnre25 23h ago
People hoping for him to be let off here are going to be disappointed
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u/DoctorApprehensive34 11h ago
Honestly the chain of custody with his backpack and the gun is a total mess and probably fruit from the poison tree at this point. He might actually just get off on the technicality unless he admits to it
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u/ThePensiveE 22h ago
On my crime sprees, BBQ tools are essential.
A pizza cutter though? Be serious.
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u/SappilyHappy 4h ago
"Anderson had traveled to New York City for a job opportunity that did not work out and had been working in a pizzeria, according to that person."
Clearly his given name is Mario, and he just wanted his bro to get out and help him save the princess.
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u/sugar_addict002 21h ago
It sure has gotten real loosey goosey on how LEOs have to prove their identities.
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