Some background: Marcel Johnson is a husband, a father to five sons, and a small business owner from Michigan who was diagnosed with stomach cancer a little over a year ago. On July 31st his insurance dropped him, leaving him uninsured as his family scrambled to find new coverage. They had to pay for his medications and chemotherapy out of pocket and he was only able to continue treatment because of his GoFundMe.

(To clarify I am not Marcel and have no connection to his family, just someone who wanted to share his story)

His tiktok & instagram accounts are under @ celnoshell

(They shared this as a story, not a post.) Source: https://www.instagram.com/subspaceartist/

More graffiti from that location here: https://www.instagram.com/postalley/

Source: https://www.tiktok.com/@willz.talks/video/7674348933686103310

An Italian Journalist living in NYC has been regularly covering Luigi's case in an Italian-language paper, La Voce di New York. Back when the DP was still on the table, she sent a letter to Italian MP Marco Grimaldi and Justice Minister Carlo Nordio, to try to intervene against the death penalty charge, since Luigi has Italian citizenship and Italy is firmly against capital punishment.

Check out Irene's twitter here: https://x.com/AbSpaghetti

Her reporting for La Voce di New York: https://lavocedinewyork.com/author/irene-sparacello/

I keep seeing this on twitter, that the lawyers never cared about Luigi because of this part of the hearing:

>Mangione looked visibly distressed when he walked in, a noticeable shift from his usually unperturbed demeanour in court. He was uncuffed at the wrists and wore tan prison garb with a cream undershirt. His counsel's demeanours were generally neutral, although it was clear that Mangione was about to give in to something big when Marc Agnifilo shook US Attorney Jamie McDonald's hand and said "congratulations."

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I'm not sure why Christine framed this interaction in the context of Luigi pleading guilty, especially BEFORE he even had, but the most obvious explanation is that Jamie McDonald just recently (July 29th) assumed the role of United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and this was the first time Marc was meeting him as that. This is the first Federal hearing they've had in several weeks.

They all work together as lawyers, and Marc was simply being cordial and professional.

Jamie McDonald Assumes Role As United States Attorney For The Southern District Of New York

Need the actual transcript asap

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Edit: this person seems to have misunderstood Luigi. The actual sentence from the website is, "I observed that the annual conference of America's largest health care organization with the stated mission to make health --excuse me -- with the stated mission to make the health system work better for everyone, would be attended by company executives, the board of directors, and hundreds of investors, not doctors, nurses, and patients."

I think "the stated mission to make healthcare work better for everyone" is UHC's own mission statement, and Luigi's inclusion of it here is to point out how they most certainly do not do that. It's a lie. They prioritize profits over all else.

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Source: https://xcancel.com/Luigi_Archive/status/2087179390538953028