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Luigi Mangione’s household could not merely afford medical care. They might afford to donate greater than $1 million of their very own cash to healthcare.

That’s in accordance with a report Monday from The Baltimore Banner, which chronicles the rich household historical past of the person charged with murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Following the information of Mangione’s arrest Monday, his household launched a press release saying they have been “shocked.”

“Sadly, we can’t touch upon information studies concerning Luigi Mangione,” stated the household in a press release posted on X by Luigi’s cousin Nino Mangione, a Republican member of the decrease home of Maryland’s state legislature. “We solely know what we’ve learn within the media.”

He famous: “Our household is shocked and devastated by Luigi’s arrest. We provide our prayers to the household of Brian Thompson, and we ask folks to hope for all concerned.”

Within the wake of the deadly capturing of Thompson, many speculated that the killer who carved “Deny, Defend, Depose” onto bullet casings meant for the CEO could be somebody down on their luck — one other sufferer, maybe, of America’s unequal and typically callous healthcare business.

However the reality is considerably totally different.

“I didn’t have two nickels to rub collectively when my father died once I was 11, but I nonetheless turned a millionaire,” Mangione household patriarch Nick Mangione Sr informed The Baltimore Solar again in 1995. “What different nation are you able to do this in? None that I can consider.”

Nick Mangione was reportedly born to an illiterate father in Baltimore’s Little Italy earlier than the Second World Struggle. He fought within the Pacific and made his fortune as a contractor after which an actual property developer within the child growth years.

By the Nineteen Nineties, the Mangiones owned golf resorts, nation golf equipment, a nursing house firm, and three conservative speak radio stations, typically sparring with metropolis and county officers as NIck Mangione expanded his enterprise empire.

Nick Mangione died in 2008, abandoning 37 grandchildren, together with Luigi Mangione. The household did nicely sufficient that they have been capable of set up a household philanthropic basis, which donated to the Better Baltimore Medical Middle and quite a few different hospitals and healthcare establishments, in addition to the Baltimore Opera Firm and the Walters Artwork Museum.

Better Baltimore Medical Middle even has a hospital ward named after the Mangiones, the Banner reported.

Precisely how Luigi Mangione’s historical past and experiences could also be linked to Thompson’s homicide is unclear. Luigi attended an costly personal faculty in Baltimore, obtained levels in pc science and engineering, and labored as a knowledge engineer in California.

However, pals informed HuffPost and The New York Occasions that he had suffered from ongoing again ache that had prevented him from browsing and impaired his romantic life, whereas a Goodreads account apparently belonging to Mangione reveal he learn books about again ache and backbone surgical procedure.

“He stated his decrease vertebrae have been virtually like a half-inch off, and I believe it pinched a nerve. Generally he’d be doing nicely and different occasions not,” stated RJ Martin, the founding father of a gaggle home in Honolulu the place Mangione had lived.

“He knew that courting and being bodily intimate along with his again situation wasn’t attainable. I keep in mind him telling me that, and my coronary heart simply breaks.”

In the meantime, Mangione’s Goodreads account posted a constructive evaluate for the manifesto of Ted Kaczynski, higher referred to as the Unabomber, whose hatred for “industrial society and its penalties” led him to commit a spate of bombing assaults within the Seventies, 80s and 90s.