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Prosecutors highlighted “about $10,000 — $8,000 in U.S. dollars and then $2,000 in foreign currency that was found on his person,” CNN correspondent Danny Freeman said following the court hearing.

“Also they said that he had a Faraday bag,” which blocks cell signals, a move that prosecutors alleged marked “an indication of criminal sophistication and reason they should hold him on bail,” Freeman continued.

After prosecutors made the claims, Mangione said he would like to “correct two things.”

“I don’t know where any of that money came from — I’m not sure if it was planted. And also, that bag was waterproof, so I don’t know about criminal sophistication,” the suspect said in a statement that suggested police framed him.

  • Pappabosley@lemmy.world
    38·
    1 day ago

    I still don’t understand how there can be any question, they caught him writing his memoir “How i totally killed that guy and why” by Luigi Mangione (an autographed copy). Open and shut case

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    535·
    2 days ago

    This could be a scapegoat

    But this could also be the perpetrator claiming he’s a scapegoat, which is probably the best way to get a Jury to acquit, just plant doubts.

    I’m gonna say that this is probably the actual perpetrator and I guess he was planning on more targets, but got caught before he could do more “deposing”.

    • NineMileTower@lemmy.world
      22·
      2 days ago

      Why not ditch the first weapon then? He could have just gotten another gun. Why would he have kept ALL the evidence on his person 5 days later?

      • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        224·
        2 days ago

        If this is actually the perpetrator, it’s possible he intended to get caught so that they dont find a scapegoat to accuse, but he merely wanted to delay his arrest in order to see the social media reactions before potentially going to prison.

        • glimse@lemmy.world
          161·
          2 days ago

          If that’s the case, I’ll bet he was loving it. Has anyone ever captured the admiration of so many people with one act? Especially an act this violent?

          Free Luigi.

          • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            4·
            2 days ago

            Well OJ Simpson kinda did, well his crime was obviously much more morally wrong, but there are people cheering for him during his police chase, but probably not as unanimous as with Luigi.

            • glimse@lemmy.world
              8·
              2 days ago

              I think that’s notably different because nobody was cheering that Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman were killed, they were either cheering that the cops were “losing” the chase or because they thought he was innocent.

              The consensus here is that The Adjustor definitely committed murder and we think that rocks.

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
      174·
      2 days ago

      Yeah. If they were looking for someone to frame, NYPD could have just grabbed someone in NY. I don’t see how it makes sense for them to coordinate with PA police to frame a random guy out of state, especially that quickly. I doubt they’d have been able to fabricate the evidence that quickly, too.

        • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
          154·
          2 days ago

          So they took evidence, and instead of analyzing it, sent it out of state to be planted on some random guy three days later? That seems even more unlikely.

          • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
            8·
            2 days ago

            Maybe, but in this case, as in many high-profile cases, the cops are determined to catch a guy, not necessarily the guy. Not that they care about this particular victim. They don’t. But they sure as hell don’t like looking like fools. If they felt that the real shooter had slipped away (after all, most murders do go unsolved these days) then they might be very inclined to find a patsy and frame him up.

  • AA5B@lemmy.world
    811·
    1 day ago

    My ez-pass transponder came with a faraday bag - clearly ez-pass is a criminal organization

    A former employer handed out branded faraday phone and wallet bags as a tchotchke- I must have worked for organized crime.

    Oh no, passport faraday bags are all over Amazon - clearly criminal and needs to be shut down

  • nifty@lemmy.world
    8·
    2 days ago

    I am not sure prosecution can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he’s the guy. Some of this evidence seems flimsy or circumstantial, but I don’t know the whole picture.

  • MSX34@lemmy.world한국어
    8·
    2 days ago

    They want to upgrade his charge from second-degree murder to first-degree murder, changing it to a murder-for-hire case.

      • Kbobabob@lemmy.world
        5·
        2 days ago

        They don’t have to. The money they found planted is enough to allow them to say whatever they want. Proving it would be harder.

      • ridethisbike@lemmy.world
        8·
        2 days ago

        They haven’t gotten that part of their lie figured out yet. Give them some time, they’re only working on two collective brain cells, afterall.

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4123·
    2 days ago

    Authorities are desperately trying to make an example of someone, anyone with a motive. Turns out more than half the country has one.

  • Doxatek@mander.xyz
    103·
    2 days ago

    About 10,000 -8,000 dollars??? If only that was something that could easily be counted. Why do we need to speculate everything. Ffs

    • Astronauticaldb@lemmy.world
      15·
      2 days ago

      That’s not what it meant, albeit it was worded dumb. It meant $10K total, with 8000 being USD and 2000 being foreign currency.

  • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
    107·
    2 days ago

    As much as I want to believe all the conspiracies… the arrest happened in Pennsylvania… and since it was at a food place after a tip, there was no time to bring in pre-screened cops. And the odds that the local law enforcement would not leak that they planted evidence and such in this high profile case are about nil. Those local cops don’t like the snutty feds anyway, so they have plenty of motivation to leak any shenanigans.

    • Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nzEnglish
      72·
      1 day ago

      If it was a setup and they chose their guy in advance, then there was time to bring in pre-screened cops. In fact, there was time to interview a small time cop, brief him on the promise of a bright career ahead of him if he keeps this one little thing on the down low, and make sure he was the closet beat cop when their chosen mark went out.

        • Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nzEnglish
          1·
          11 hours ago

          Well they haven’t pulled it off yet. Their story is already full of holes. The feds expect us to believe he perfectly planned the murder with a 3D printed disposable gun, and was then caught two states away with that same gun? It doesn’t make any sense.

          • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
            1·
            2 hours ago

            Human actions rarely make sense. Let’s be honest. A completely rational person doesn’t murder a rich perdon in broad daylight in the middle of a major city and expect to get away with it. A truly smart person would make it look like an accident. And really, to through his lufe away just to extinguish another isn’t rational. He had no way of knowing people would see him as a hero. So he couldn’t have had any ration belief that it would change anything. And it still may not.
            Thus to say thier story is full of holes because a rational person wouldn’t do X, is in itself, full of holes. He may not be what we wish he was, but the message is still clear. People are pissed off, and want change. Let’s no get distracted with conspiracy theories. It only reduces the chances of any meaningful change, and those are already low enough… but worth trying for.

          • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
            2·
            1 hour ago

            Most of the holes we see are us expecting him to make smart moves.

            We know he was at the hostel

            We know he was at the bus station

            You know he had a fake New Jersey ID because he used that to check in at the hostel.

            Motive, If it exists, should come out pretty clearly in discovery. If that actually was his journal he was carrying with him that he wrote in , the points in there will be easy to prove or disprove. From the sound of the journal he was planning on turning himself in or getting caught.

            I’ll fully admit what we saw in the video and the actions right after seem to be very coherent compared to what were hearing now. But the discrepancies aren’t so big they can’t be explained if he was just kind of winging it.

            The differences in the coat in the backpack could be the differences between a daytime camera and a camera in night mode. In a night shot things reflect ir light differently, that one shot definitely looks like it doesn’t have pockets in the front. But we are looking at potato cam footage.

            They’ll also have proper records of him coming in with that fake ID.

            I guess I’m just saying the difference is between them planting evidence and* him coming in with the intent to pull it off and likely get caught should be stark enough to come out in Discovery if he even has a half decent lawyer. Also what the f*** was up with that Joe pesci arringement I attorney

  • twistypencil@lemmy.world
    61·
    2 days ago

    He had Ill will against corporate America, nobody would have that unless they were the killer! Sick evidence coppers!