A GiveSendGo campaign has raised over $75,000 for the legal defense of Luigi Magnione, the 26-year-old Ivy League graduate charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. As of Friday morning, the online fundraiser raised $75,305 out of its $200,000 goal.
“This is a preemptive legal fundraiser for the suspect allegedly involved in the shooting of the United Healthcare CEO. We are not here to celebrate violence, but we do believe in the constitutional right of fair legal representation,” the campaign organizers stated.
They added that a mailing address for Mangione has been available and that they are writing to him to “open a line of communication.”
“In future letters, we will send printouts of selected comments from this fundraising page. All proceeds will be sent directly to Luigi or, if he chooses to reject the funds, they will instead be donated to legal funds for other U.S political prisoners,” the GiveSendGo campaign organizers wrote.
Mangione, who was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania on Monday, is currently being held at the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon SCI Huntingdon. On Dec. 4, he shot and killed Thompson in Midtown,…
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