UnitedHealthcare Shooting Suspect Luigi Mangione Hires Lawyer Who Has Connection to Sean 'Diddy' Combs Case: Here's How

Mar. 15, 2025

Luigi Mangione; Karen Friedman Agnifilo.Photo:PA Department of Corrections;ABC 7

PA Department of Corrections;ABC 7

Luigi Mangione, the suspect named in thefatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, has hired prominent attorney Karen Friedman Agnifilo to represent him.

A spokesperson for Friedman Agnifilo’s firm,Agnifilo Intrater LLP, confirmed to PEOPLE that the former Manhattan chief assistant district attorney was retained to represent Mangione, 26, in New York — where he faces a murder charge in the Dec. 4 killing of Thompson.

Friedman Agnifilo, who has three decades of criminal justice experience and held the role of Manhattan chief assistant district attorney from 2014 to 2021, will “not be making any statements at this time,” the spokesperson said.

Before her time in private practice and before her years in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, Friedman Agnifilo worked as general counsel on criminal justice policy for New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s office from 2006 to 2010, per her firm. A longtime New York prosecutor toldCNNthat Mangione’s new attorney has “as much experience as any human being, especially in the state court” and “knows every corridor, every judge, every clerk in the courthouse.”

As multiple outlets includingVanity Fair,The New York PostandThe Daily Beasthave since reported, Friedman Agnifilo is married to attorney Marc Agnifilio, who is involved in another high-profile case related toSean “Diddy” Combs.

Luigi Mangione.PA Department of Corrections

PA Department of Corrections

Marc Agnifilio is representing the Bad Boy mogul,who in September was chargedwith sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution. At the time of Combs' charges in Manhattan Federal Court, the attorney told PEOPLE that his client was “an innocent man with nothing to hide.”

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Mangione —the alleged UnitedHealthcare gunman— was arrested at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pa., on Monday, Dec. 9, following a days-long manhunt. He is currently being held at the State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon in the state.

Police have since said that they discovered Mangione with a ghost gun, a suppressor, fake IDs and amanifestoallegedly describing those in the health insurance industry as “parasites.”

He is charged with second-degree murder in New York, as well as weapons and forgery charges in Pennsylvania.

source: people.com