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DOJ says Comey’s 8647 seashells post was a threat to kill Trump

DOJ says Comey’s 8647 seashells post was a threat to kill Trump

Published by Sam Flores

Author James Comey, former FBI Director, speak at the Barnes & Noble Upper West Side on May 19, 2025 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images News | Getty Images The Department of Justice cited a novel written by James Comey as it urged a federal judge not to dismiss criminal charges against the former FBI director for allegedly threatening to kill President Donald Trump by posting an Instagram photo of seashells on a North Carolina beach forming the numbers “86 47.” Prosecutors in a new court filing late Tuesday night suggested that Comey, like a right-wing podcaster featured in his fictional book “FDR Drive,” sent coded messages to his followers suggesting they kill an enemy of his. “On May 15, 2025, a charismatic leader named James Comey, through the wonder of the internet, posted a coded message to his followers meaning ‘kill’ or ‘get rid of’ (a euphemism for ‘kill’) President Trump,’” the filing in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina by U.S. Attorney W. Ellis Boyle’s …

Luigi Mangione pleads guilty in federal case for UnitedHealthcare CEO killing

Luigi Mangione pleads guilty in federal case for UnitedHealthcare CEO killing

Published by Sam Flores

Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty Friday in New York federal court to stalking UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson before fatally shooting him on a midtown Manhattan street in December 2024. Mangione’s lawyers immediately afterward filed a motion in New York state court saying that charges of murder and multiple firearms counts against the Ivy League graduate in that court for Thompson’s slaying should be tossed out under the state’s double jeopardy law because of his federal plea. Mangione, 28, faces a possible maximum sentence of life in prison when he is sentenced on Dec. 18. But federal sentencing guidelines suggest a sentence in the range of 24 to 30 years in prison. Thompson’s company, a division of UnitedHealth Group, is the largest health insurer in the United States. Thompson, 50, was gunned down on Dec. 4, 2024, on the sidewalk outside the Hilton Hotel. Mangione said Friday in Manhattan U.S. District Court that “after years of enduring severe pain from a broken back, navigating the obstacles of the health insurance system and witnessing similar experiences of countless …

Luigi Mangione expected to plead guilty in federal case: Report

Luigi Mangione expected to plead guilty in federal case: Report

Published by Sam Flores

Luigi Mangione during a pretrial hearing at New York State Supreme Court in New York, US, on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. David Dee Delgado | Bloomberg | Getty Images Luigi Mangione is expected to plead guilty Friday in his federal criminal case, where he is charged with stalking in connection with his alleged killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a midtown Manhattan street in 2024, The New York Times reported Thursday, citing sources. Mangione is scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court in Manhattan on Friday for a pretrial conference with Judge Margaret Garnett, which was requested in a court filing on Tuesday by both prosecutors and defense lawyers. He is separately charged in New York state court with murdering Thompson and other counts. If Mangione does plead guilty in the federal case, his attorneys are expected to argue that he cannot be prosecuted for murder in the state case because of New York’s double jeopardy law, The Times noted in its report Thursday. A spokesman for the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office declined to …