Jeffrey Epstein was name-dropped at Luigi Mangione’s listening to Monday when a jail guard testified that the accused killer was given a lot safety as a result of officers didn’t need one other suicide on their arms.
“I used to be instructed that SCI Huntington didn’t need an Epstein-style state of affairs,” Pennsylvania Correction Officer Thomas Rivers mentioned in Manhattan courtroom, referring to the jail the place Mangione was being held on the time and Epstein’s suicide behind bars in Manhattan in August 2019.
Rivers, who was tasked with conserving an in depth eye on Mangione in December 2024, mentioned Mangione was below “fixed watch” whereas in detention — a state of affairs usually reserved for somebody who’s a menace to themselves.
Epstein, a strong financier-turned-convicted pedophile, offed himself whereas awaiting trial on sex-trafficking costs, authorities have mentioned.
During an off-handed chat between the officer and Mangione on the Pennsylvania jail, Mangione additionally gabbed a few “gang battle between ‘Lady boys’ ” and “one thing with monkeys on public transport,’’ referring to his travels in Vietnam and Thailand, the guard mentioned.
Mangione had allegedly been overwhelmed by seven transgender girls, generally referred to in Thailand as “ladyboys,” throughout a bar dispute over cash, a brand new e-book has mentioned.
The incident occurred months earlier than he allegedly fatally gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Manhattan sidewalk.
This week’s Manhattan listening to is to debate whether or not Mangione was illegally searched by cops when he was caught and whether or not doubtlessly damning proof have been wrongly seized from him.
