Luigi Mangione Prosecutors Fire Back On ‘eavesdropping’ Claim

The U.S. authorities denied "eavesdropping" connected UnitedHealthcare CEO execution fishy Luigi Mangione's recorded jailhouse calls successful a Monday tribunal filing aft his defense attorneys claimed national officials shared his calls pinch nan New York County Attorney's Office (DANY).

Mangione's New York-based defense attorney, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, said during Mangione's Friday arraignment that 1 of his jailhouse calls pinch her was recorded and "eavesdropped on" by a personnel of nan DANY’s team, noting that nan DANY agency informed her that 1 personification listened to nan call. 

"To beryllium sure, nary 1 astatine DANY aliases nan Government ‘eavesdropped’ connected nan suspect connected a unrecorded basis," national prosecutors wrote. "Rather, accordant pinch well-known believe successful national and authorities jails, galore of nan defendant’s calls are recorded, pinch announcement of nan signaling provided to him and nan personification connected nan different broadside of immoderate calls."

Prosecutors added that "a number of calls" betwixt Mangione and Friedman Agnifilo "were provided by nan Metropolitan Detention Center ('MDC') to nan Government – and by nan Government to DANY – because nan suspect said to his counsel connected a recorded and monitored jailhouse statement (not a statement specially designated for lawyer calls) and pinch counsel utilizing a telephone number that was not identified arsenic belonging to counsel (thus evading MDC’s process for filtering lawyer calls earlier providing them to nan Government)."

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Luigi Mangione appears successful Manhattan Criminal Court for a position proceeding successful New York City connected Feb. 21, 2025. Magnione is accused of sidesplitting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. (Curtis Means/Pool)

"In immoderate event, nary personnel of nan national prosecution squad has listened to immoderate signaling of immoderate lawyer call, and nan Government has segregated each recordings of these lawyer calls truthful that they cannot beryllium accessed further," prosecutors wrote.

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The authorities said it is "standard practice" for jailhouse calls to beryllium recorded done MDC's telephone system, Trufone network, which plays a signaling whenever a suspect makes a telephone stating that nan telephone is being recorded and is taxable to monitoring. The authorities has truthful acold received 2 sets of recordings successful nan Mangione lawsuit from MDC, which it past provided to DANY.

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Luigi Mangione appears successful Manhattan Supreme Court successful New York City connected Dec. 23, 2024. (Curtis Means for DailyMail/Pool)

Prosecutors further said nan 2 sets of recordings contained 1 telephone telephone betwixt Mangione and his attorney, who "did not look connected nan Trufone interaction database that nan MDC provided to nan Government."

On April 22, 2025, a paralegal astatine DANY was reviewing nan recorded calls and "encountered this telephone betwixt nan suspect and Ms. Agnifilo (using nan Agnifilo Number) and recognized it arsenic an lawyer call."

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Luigi Mangioni is escorted from an NYPD chopper successful New York City, Dec. 19, 2024. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)

"The paralegal instantly stopped listening and reported nan rumor to nan prosecution squad astatine DANY, who promptly notified Ms. Agnifilo and 1 personnel of nan prosecution squad astatine nan Government," prosecutors said. "No 1 other from DANY and nary 1 astatine each from nan Government ever reviewed this aliases immoderate different lawyer call. The Government has now segregated this circumstantial audio signaling to forestall immoderate further inadvertent access, and it understands DANY has done nan same."

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Fox News reached retired to Friedman Agnifilo for comment.

Mangione pleaded not blameworthy to national charges successful a Manhattan tribunal connected April 25 successful relationship pinch UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's Dec. 4, 2024, murder.

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UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was killed connected Dec. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/UnitedHealth Group)

Mangione was indicted successful nan Southern District of New York connected charges of stalking and murdering Thompson, arsenic good arsenic utilizing physics communications, interstate recreation and a firearm erstwhile he allegedly killed nan healthcare security CEO.

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The fishy allegedly changeable Thompson extracurricular nan Manhattan edifice wherever UnitedHealthcare's yearly shareholder convention was being held, successful an enactment prosecutors judge was meant to nonstop a message to nan healthcare security industry based connected a manifesto recovered connected nan fishy erstwhile he was arrested days aft Thompson's murder.

Luigi Mangione departs nan courtroom pursuing his arraignment successful New York City Criminal Court connected Dec. 23, 2024. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)

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If nan 26-year-old is convicted of execution done nan usage of a firearm, Mangione could look nan decease penalty, arsenic national prosecutors person indicated successful tribunal filings.

Fox News' Adam Sabes contributed to this report.