Federal prosecutors slammed Luigi Mangione’s lawyers on Wednesday for making what the government said were "meritless" and "misleading” claims about Attorney General Pam Bondi’s ties to a lobbying firm and her decision to seek the death penalty in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Deputy Manhattan U.S. Attorney Sean Buckley wrote in a court filing that Mangione’s lawyers wrongly claimed in a submission last month that Bondi, a former partner at Ballard Partners, was continuing to receive income through a profit-sharing arrangement with the firm, whose clients include UnitedHealthcare’s parent company UnitedHealth Group.
