Kate Fisher: US Correspondent on the police matching fingerprints found at the scene of Brian Thompson's death to Luigi Mangione

There’s a match on fingerprints found at the assassination scene of a major US health insurance boss in Manhattan.  

New York prosecutors have charged 26-year-old Luigi Mangione with murdering Brian Thompson.  

Police have told CNN that fingerprints found at the crime scene match Mangione's. 

Correspondent Kate Fisher told Andrew Dickens that development followed his extradition hearing yesterday.  

She says he refused extradition to New York and was then denied bail, so he'll remain in a Pennsylvania jail while the legal ramifications are sorted out. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
As Kate Fisher joins us from Washington, DC. Hellicate, Hello,
what's the latest with Luigi Mangioni.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Well, yeah, he has. He's in jail in Pennsylvania at
the moment. He has been charged in New York with
the assassination of the United Healthcare Insurance boss Brian Thompson,
but he has a fighting extradition. He appeared in court
yesterday in Pennsylvania and he refused to be extradited with

(00:33):
his giving his consent to do so, and so he
was denied bail, which means he remains in jail in
Pennsylvania while the legal ramifications are sorted out in trying
to get him extracited to New York. He's going to
be going, it's just going to take a lot longer
because he is refusing to cooperate. We have also found

(00:56):
out reporting here saying that a notebook was found on
him which in which he described or the notebook, the
writing in the notebook described going to a conference and
killing an executive quote, what do you do? You whack
the CEO at the annual parasitic being counter convention. It's targeted,
precise and doesn't risk innocence.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
So the fact that the United Healthcare boss, and the
fact that he assassinated him. There wasn't any personal beef.
It was just because he exists.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Well, yeah, he's the fact he allegedly did so, yeah,
it's his manifesto. Police are suggesting, as it is, such
as it is, is that he was fed up with
corporate America and that he wanted to make an example of,
you know, of trying to make a statement, if you like,
by doing something that would bring down one of these

(01:51):
chief executives. It doesn't suggest in any of the writings
that has certainly been reported on so far, that there
was a personal issue with United Health. It was more
of a general issue with the whole of corporate America.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
So mister Thompson was just in the wrong place at
the wrong time. It's a tragedy. It's a horrific crime.
We've got fires in Malibu and you know it's serious.
The celebrities are evacuating.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
That's right. Dick Van Dyke, who was in of course
Mary Poppins and musicians share or among thousands of people
who've been told to leave their homes in Malibu after
this really fast moving wildfire broke out. It's burning acres
of this area, and it's a very wealthy area. Lots
of very rich people and stars lived there. Were also

(02:39):
told that people like Barbara Streisan, Jay Z, and Beyonce
Lady Gaga all have homes in the evacuation zone, although
we don't know whether they've been forced to leave or
even if they are in those homes at the moment.
But yeah, lots of residents having to leave, a vast
wave of California under fire, and this of course is

(03:00):
becoming a regular annual event in California.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yeah, absolutely, thank you so much, Kate Fisher out of Washington,
DC and those guys who are being evacuated. Also with
the news, jay Z, who's in diddy Gate right now,
and Beyonce, Dick Van Dyke who's starring in the latest
Cold Played video which is well worth the look, and
he's ninety nine, almost one hundred and Share who's just
written a new book. For more from Early Edition with
Ryan Bridge.

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