United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down outside of a Manhattan Hilton on Wednesday morning. The fatal shooting is being investigated as a targeted killing, as in the shooter was waiting specifically for Thompson. The NYPD is, as of this writing, still on a manhunt for the shooter and they’re offering $10K for any information. Because the media can’t do a deep dive into the still-unknown shooter, they’re doing a deep dive on Brian Thompson. As it turns out, the guy has marriage problems, drinking problems and insider trader problems. See, this actually muddies the shooter’s motive.
The slain UnitedHealthcare CEO had a criminal record for drunk driving and was secretly separated from his wife for years before he was shot dead in Manhattan on Wednesday, according to public records. Minnesota court filings show that in 2017 Brian Thompson was arrested and convicted on charges of fourth-degree driving while impaired, for which he received probation.
In addition to legal troubles, the executive, who was gunned down in what NYPD has labeled a “premeditated, pre-planned, targeted attack,” also seems to have faced recent marital issues. Based on property records, voter registration forms, and reports from neighbors, Brian and Paulette Thompson had lived in different homes less than a mile apart in Maple Grove, Minnesota, for the past several years, The Wall Street Journal reported. In 2018, Thompson bought a five-bedroom second house for around $1 million, while his wife’s residence remained in another house nearby, also worth about $1 million, based on Zillow listings and public records.
Paulette Thompson told MSNBC her husband had received threats related to his company’s “lack of coverage” and said in a statement to a local Fox affiliate in Minnesota that his killing had left her and their two sons “shattered.” About 12 hours after his killing, someone made a bomb threat at his Minnesota home, but authorities did not find any evidence of explosives, TMZ reported. UnitedHealthcare and the Hennepin County District Court did not immediately respond to a Daily Beast inquiry about Thompson’s DUI.
2017… seven years ago, he was arrested and convicted of a DUI in Minnesota. Three years after that (2020-ish), he and his wife separated. Definitely seems like there are multiple avenues of investigation, that’s all I’ll say. As for the insider trading, Thompson and two other UHC executives were facing a class-action lawsuit for dumping millions of dollars in stock (in 2023) while UHC was facing a DoJ investigation for antitrust violations. Instead of informing UHC shareholders of the antitrust investigation, Thompson and the other executives dumped $120 million worth of their UnitedHealth shares. Damn, another potential motive.
Photos courtesy of UnitedHealthcare.
Sounds like a bit of an asshole.
Other than that, someone should tell the NYT that “pre-planned” is redundant.
I was cackling at the combo of premeditated, preplanned and targeted.
We get it, we really do.
@Alicky
Co-sign on “preplanned.” It’s embarrassing for the Times. And what a useless word. Like the word “pro-active.”
I just popped on to say: the perp must be long gone from Manhattan Island and New York City. The headlines yesterday that NYC cops were “still searching” struck me as missing the obvious.
Unless there’s an instability factor that would influence his behavior to stick around and savor this deed, he was probably off island and out of the city right after it happened. (I haven’t been reading stories, so maybe there’s evidence otherwise).
@nohope: proactive is defined as creating/controlling a situation by causing something to happen; active is defined as engaging/ready to engage in physical pursuits.
So, not redundant.
Based on the words written on the bullets that were shot into him, it seems like the shooting had to do with healthcare coverage decisions, but who knows? They could be a red herring.
Possible diversionary tactic.
half the people in my office, after seeing the video and hearing about the bullets but before knowing about the separation, were sure it was the wife who hired someone to kill him and felt she could get away with it by making it look like it was someone who got a heartbreaking denial from the company.
If it turns out to be someone who did this due to a claim denial. I would not be surprised if they voted not to convict/jury nullification based on the reaction of the general public. The only jury that wouldn’t have a hard time convicting someone in that situation would be one made up of CEOs and other rich douche bros. Elon Musk had a little meltdown on twitter about the public’s reaction yesterday and went on about how it’s the CEOs who have the thankless task of doing all the hard stuff in a business in the face of the corporate laziness and greed of middle management and staff, and how the country would be destitute without all the wonderful (and, ostensibly, heroic) CEOs. If MAGA wants to push us back in time then arrogant folks like Musk may find that a lot of people would be happy to bypass the 1930s Germany and 19th century Jim Crow America he & Trump wax poetic about and head straight to France circa 1793-94.
“If MAGA wants to push us back in time then arrogant folks like Musk may find that a lot of people would be happy to bypass the 1930s Germany and 19th century Jim Crow America he & Trump wax poetic about and head straight to France circa 1793-94”
@pottymouth pup – Preach sista, Preach!
This shooter was pretty professional. A hired hit man? I’ll wait for the Law&Order episode.
Sounds like a future Snapped episode
Wow, sounds like his company had motive frkn yikes
I don’t think they were professional. They have been found on surveillance cameras in multiple locations including the location of the crime. I would think professional hitmen know how to avoid surveillance, which everyone knows exists all over New York City.
Were they hired? Possibly. Professional, no.
Agreed, Sue. He was way too sloppy regarding cameras, and close distance (handgun vs. rifle) given witnesses nearby. His ability to quickly clear jammed ammo speaks to familiarity with the gun though.
I dunno. He seems VERY nonchalant, like he knows he’s going to get away with it. I mean, a bike?!?! Even though the entire NYPD + the FBI is looking for him, he IS getting away with it so far.
That moment at the hostel when he smiles? That reads more like confidence than stupidity to me. I doubt he would be that chill if he were about to go out and commit his first murder. No way.
But who knows, I could be wrong. 🤷🏽♀️
Not sure if the footage they are showing is even the same guy as the shooter. I’m not sure they even got the right gun correct.
This assassination didn’t seem professional to me at all – shot in the back (seems a bit odd for an assassin) and also in the calf? That’s a wide miss.
Shooting in the calf stops them from running away so you get clean shots to the back. Sounds professional to me, or definitely military.
This is a professional hit. The other stuff coming out about Thompson, especially the insider trading, makes it feel like the disgruntled policyholder is a distraction. The shooter stays in a hostel paying with cash? The MSM is sticking with that angle. I think it’s part of the plan.
Wow! I had heard of the insider trading bit, but this is the first time I’ve seen that he and his wife were separated or that he could have put someone in the hospital due to drunk driving (and denied them insurance coverage). What an all around garbage human!
The Euroean reporting has recently shifted a bit–at first they were only describing the murder as a shocking killing of a CEO in broad daylight. I heard from my friends in the States about how terrible the healthcare was and kept hearing that they understood why he might have been shot. The Guardian has now also published the American reactions: It’s one of the few things I’m hearing anyone I’m connected to agrees on. In terms of politics, everyone agrees that United Healthcare is egregiously inhumane, and they get why he was murdered. That’s insane! I heard they at least have decided not to stop paying for anesthesia mid operation. I hope this leads to coverage changes for the better for those of you affected.
That’s a nice sentiment but this won’t stop the devolution of healthcare in this country, especially when Trump inevitably guts the ACA and replaces it with nothing.
I DO think this will lead to CEOs hiring more security. though.
Kitten, it is already happening with the “poor” people health programs… took me over 2 years to get an upper denture. I am on public assistance due to a F’ing ex who makes 6-7 figure Prevailing Wage ( taxpayer paid ,lies about making less than a laborer. He owes me over $300,000 but I live in a red pilled man county which the court visits were 9 different MEN that let him walk. This has been going on for 15 years. Not paying a court ordered garnishment of his wages, a company that is paid 10 million to do a half mile street. He is their Sr. Project Manager, I am truly sick of the rich getting richer and dumping their responsibilities as they do. The rich including my own sister/brother are making big bucks and screwing the public while they do. They recently had my dementia mother take me out of my father’s will. I have no money to fight this crap! Disgusting. It is becoming the norm to screw anyone & everyone for money whether you owe them or not
The company with the anesthesia has already back tracked due to people being like WTF and probably this incident too, but they’ll probably just try to do it again more quietly.
Our healthcare system is insane.
Yeah, that was Anthem BCBS, not United Healthcare. But they’re all awful.
It was a different company (Anthem) that tried to curtail coverage for anaesthesia, but yeah for-profit US health care is egregious. Everyone who’s lived in the US has a story of getting screwed by their insurer.
Someone posted a letter from a Dr. on Reddit yesterday. The Dr. had written a letter to United Healthcare reaming them out for refusing to cover anti-nausea meds for a CHILD undergoing chemo. I don’t think my CEO has been to the office since this happened. He already walks around with armed guards when outside. Seriously, whatever the motive this is putting a little fear into some people. Oh well….
The wife was behind it….
I’ve had that thought since the beginning, well before I knew they were separated. The immediate “he was recently getting threats” from her just seemed…I dunno, off. Like it was the first thing she said, like she wanted it established right away, and the more I thought about it, the more I found it odd. As a CEO and especially a CEO of a healthcare company, he was always getting threats. Always.
But I watch too much Dateline, lol. Violence isn’t the answer, but I’d rather it be someone who UnitedHealth screwed over who did it rather than a domestic matter.
The guy was gunned down in broad daylight and has small kids. Do we need to smear the victim here? It’s pretty appalling.
how many people have been murdered by their lack of health care even though they have insurance? how is he or any insurance or health care exec worth that much at 50? he seems messy in many ways creating many motives. he’s already received more coverage and concern than any other shooting victim in the US this week, of which there are several including children.
People always strive to understand so that they can distance themselves from the event. They want to know that it was not random, that they would not be equally at risk of such a horrible thing. So that much I do understand. And part of that process seems to devolve into victim blaming. Thank goodness he was not sexually assaulted – then we would have to hear about what he was wearing and how he passed his time, and how many people he had dated.
????? You say that as if this is some random guy and not a person who people have a legitimate reason to despise. Even if people don’t have United Healthcare as their provider this man and his company have become symbolic of our atrocious healthcare system. Whether that’s fair or not can be debated, but people are not wrong for feeling indifferent about the death of this man. After all, he showed careless indifference over and over again towards those that desperately needed crucial medical care.
i’m sorry, but i have a real problem with you equating this guy’s death with a sexual assault victim. he was obviously a very shitty person who did shitty things. sometimes it’s not victim blaming, sometimes it’s just cause and effect.
@ mblates — sorry, my sarcasm did not come across. I very much think that people are actually going much lighter on the victim-blaming here than they would had he been a woman or a person of color. I was suggesting to Fancyhat that the victim-blaming here is lightweight. But having worked in the system for a bit, I will sat this: victim blaming almost always benefits the most powerful, so in general I don’t like it. The whole republicant party is based on on victim-blaming. We need not stoop to that level.
@Kitten – I don’t think people need to feel indifferent. I don’t feel indifferent. I’m saying that trying to understand why someone in particular was attacked or killed is human instinct and calms our fears. As for victim blaming, see above — it’s a tool used against women and minorites all the time.
Why should people whitewash his history of egregious insider trading or the fact that he willingly chose to be the face of a company that engages in cruel and appalling business practices that undeniably lead people to become more sick or worse yet, die? What should we say about Trump post-mortem–that he was a swell guy, a great POTUS, and a man who had the best interests of the American people at heart?
Nah. Fuck that. The time of being gracious and considerate towards powerful people who do terrible things solely for the sake of profit is over. The “we they go low we go high” era is done. We are calling these people out from now on.
They’re looking into his life to determine motive. That’s what happens in a murder investigation. If some bad stuff about him comes out, it’s because he did some bad stuff in his life. It happens to anyone in that situation, and in this case it’s global news.
In this case it looks like there are several potential paths that could have led here, his personal life, his wealth, his career, pending investigations, all of it.
It’s also how the New York press works, the first day the “victim” is a saint, the next day they start to drop little hints, day 3 they lay bare the person’s whole life for all to see and judge. It’s a built up followed by a tear down.
Yes, yes, a thousand time yes.
FancyHat, Murder is wrong. Period. However, the person who is murdered can elicit a response from people hearing the news, and frankly, Brian Thompson has made choices that have negatively impacted a significant amount of people. They’ve gone into debt, died due to a lack of treatment, suffered complications… What are your thoughts on Donald Trump who survived an assassination attempt? DT’s youngest (18) is a year younger than Brian Thompson’s older son (19). BT’s younger son is 16. I don’t see them as small children?
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/brian-thompson-wife-paulette-many-034956156.html
@fancyhat were you@fancypants yesterday?
Stating facts about him isn’t smearing him. Even though I’m all for it. When it comes to us Black folks we get no sympathy unless we’re the perfect victim, why should he? Eff him.
No, I’m a different commenter, and I’m just gonna leave you alone with your “murder is fine as long as a random person he didn’t even know hated him” attitude today.
How many people has he murdered?
Frankly, good riddance. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
Except that the company will just replace him will someone similar and carry on per ususal.
Hmmmm… maybe read the room? Do you know how much DAMAGE and DEATH these insurance companies cause because they want to get rich off of your money by denying coverage instead of giving you back the money you gave them in good faith to cover your care? I feel sorry for his kids. I don’t even know if he was a good father, he sounds like a mess. Sometimes, you reap what you sow.
I have worked for an insurance company I won’t name for 8 years and I’ve been refused the “privilege” of getting an MRI on my lower back until I go to physical therapy for 6 f-ing weeks. So I have to spend the money for PT before my insurance will say okay we’ll NOW take a look at the actual problem.
The problem is 3 years old with no change, I’m a nurse and I’ve been doing my own damn PT, now when I’ve finally met my damn deductible they’re telling me no spend more money, THEN we’ll consider actually identifying the damn source. American health insurance system is bullshit 😡
This man made his money from screwing over millions of people and probably killing and causing suffering in thousands more. His company operated to deny coverage to paying insured to make BILLIONS of dollars. Jesus your sympathy is misplaced. I hope this strikes fear into other CEOs.
Is it smearing when the facts support that he was a shitty person (drunk driving, insider trading, CEO of insurance company that denies by far the most claims) or is it just….facts??
He and his executive cohorts broke the law. The DOJ has been investigating insider trading at the company. Early this year executives at United sold $101m in stocks, including Thompson, who sold $15m, before the public became aware of the investigation. UnitedHealthcare has been criticized as denying care to vulnerable patients. Many commenters have decried healthcare being pulled arbitrarily — “Can’t find the room to care over my daughter’s $60,000 cancer treatment”…”Had to pay $2 million out of my family’s pocket to buy drugs to control my advanced Crohn’s disease after health care was cancelled”.
One son is in high school, one recently graduated. Not small kids. Not that it won’t be hard on them, although…they knew their dad.
Also, not broad daylight, it was evening.
It was not evening; he was shot just before 7am.
It was 6:40 am. The sun is not yet up at that hour in NYC.
So much empathy for a man who would let you bleed out if he couldn’t make a buck off of it. He’s done it literally (denying care to policyholders, increasing the costs of insurance period so that poor and middle class people do not have access when they need it) and figuratively (dumping his stock so he can make millions while shareholders watch the price of their stock tank). Please chill and save it for the people who actually deserve it.
That man made decisions that harmed and ultimately killed hundreds of thousands of Americans. He was an evil man working in an evil industry. His family will be rich and fine. They were living off the spoils of his evil decisions anyway. Rich people are what’s wrong with society.
It is just unfortunate that someone else will step in who is just as evil and will harm more Americans in the name of shareholder profit.
This is beginning to look like an episode of “Elementary.” I can see Sherlock Holmes ( Johnny Lee Miller) being all over this case.
Elementary is so good.
CBS is doing a sequel–“Watson”–coming pretty soon. It has a different Watson, though–so go figure…
tots and pears
This story is absolutely wild. I’m personally into the theory this was a hired hit due to some other shady business and the casings and other stuff is to throw everyone off. This was very well planned and I bet the guy is already out of the country by now.
The etched casings do seem a bit on the nose. (removes tinfoil hat)
I thought the same thing. It’s a bit too obvious, right? Someone wanted him gone, and his position at that company makes a convenient motive.
But who knows.
It IS very on the nose.
I still think it could go either way? It is a perfectly reasonable theory that it is a red herring.
But if it was a disgruntled loved one of someone who died due to a denial of coverage, I could see them wanting to make it clear WHY it happened.
Agree that the killer is long gone. I mean, who flirts and goes to Starbucks before committing a murder!?!? An experienced killer — that’s who. This guy was very sure of himself.
Apparently the gun that was used is relatively rare (I’m reading that there might “only” be about a thousand of that kind of gun in the US). If the assassin is a law-abiding gun owner with all the proper registrations, that could be a way to find them.
I really doubt with everything the guy did (fake id etc) that he’d use a gun legally registered to his real identity. The rareness of the gun is intentional I think.
Yes, the gun is relatively rare and a silencer was used. I’m sure it was acquired on the black market and if there was a serial number, it’s been long since erased. This was definitely targeted.
Being every young, wealthy separated man there is a mistress (or two.) Was someone (not the wife) getting dumped?
on law and order he would be personally responsible for people dying from denied claims, insider trading, treating his wife bad. but then the murderer would be the brother of the au pair he knocked up and wouldnt help.
Yes, great plot line!
Heh. One could easily adjust this to be a Midsomer Murders episode–though the victim would get knocked into a quarry by a hunting hawk or an arrow.
The reaction to this murder has been fascinating from a cultural standpoint. I understand the sentiment from people saying it’s wrong to celebrate a murder, he had kids, etc. But it strikes me as similar to the Biden pardon thread earlier this week when people were like “What a stain on the President’s legacy.” As intellectual exercises, both of those acts were ethically wrong. But taken in context, the ethics get a LOT muddier.
Ordinary people have been suffering for so long thanks to fatcats like this guy. We’ve been asking them nicely to please take just a little less for so long, and they keep rigging the system in their favor. That never works well for the fatcats, and yet they always think they’ll be the exception.
We’re really on the precipice of something ugly.
My personal gut reaction when I heard the news: I’d rather hear about a CEO getting shot than a child at school. I really wish this wasn’t the world we’re living in.
💯
RE: Biden and the parallel you draw here: my theory is that people on the left are finally realizing that a clinging to entrenched norms and traditions have brought us to this point. The left now realizes that our fellow Americans don’t care about any of those things nor do they care about institutions. I think we’ll continue to see liberals shift towards a more anti-establishment “burn it all down” mentality, one that in some ways mirrors the Right. I know I shouldn’t hope but this collective mix of anger and indifference could serve as great motivation to remake the Dem party into a party of discontented fighters striving for structural change. Dream, dream….
Stayed at a hostel, paid cash, used a fake ID, wore dark clothing, kept face covered, waited for him, shot him in a busy city with multiple ways to leave, had a planned escape, used an silencer, calmly fixed a problem with the gun and kept shooting. A professional hit man?
Also arrived at scene via subway but left via e-bike he had probably pre-planted. Rumors he disposed of a burner phone and changed clothes and backpack at some point. Even if it wasn’t a pro hit, it was all very well planned out.
He had help. Who told him who, what, when and where? How did he know when the CEO was leaving the building and what time and in what color suit heading in what direction on foot with no security?
@Libra exactly. Apparently the CEO was at a conference so his general schedule was known but to know the precise moment he’d be leaving the building the assassin probably had to have had some assistance.
Also, the CEO was speaking at an investor conference, an annual event. Those follow pretty much the same routine and agenda every single year. Some companies even record them for livestream or put them on YouTube. It would not have been hard for anyone to figure out BT’s routine that morning, especially if he’d been shadowing him for several days and knew that he would ditch his security just to walk across the street to the conference venue. Surely this has all been taken offline by now but the agenda for the meeting was probably sent out in emails and published on websites.
I’m former military and the way he cleared that gun of the jam… He’s had training of some sort. I don’t think he’s a professional hitman since it looks like they got him on camera at the Starbucks without his mask on. But maybe former military or law enforcement?
This dude kept his face covered for over a week in New York! He had this whole thing planned – down to a change of clothes and probably shoes in Central Park – to a science. I think every bit of evidence the cops have on him so far was either intentionally left behind to play with them or will not lead anywhere.
And I don’t think the ex-wife had anything to do with it, but the little she’s said to the media so far and the fact that Brian Thomas was worth tens of millions but the Crimestoppers reward for info is $10K suggests she’s not too torn up about this.
I was all in on the hit man theory until the photo of him with his mask down flirting with the desk clerk at the hostel showed up. IMHO a professional hit man would not have made that mistake??
There are several odd things about this crime. As you point out, he showed his face on camera at the hostel. Obviously, he was also on camera for every moment of the murder. And his gun jammed after the fatal shot, which is a little strange (he also handled the gun with bare hands, so possible fingerprints). Plus, what’s the point of a silencer on your gun if the whole crime is going to be caught on camera? Surely silencing the gunshots would only buy you moments & in this case, there was (pretty predictably) a passerby on the sidewalk, so again, what why the silencer? The weirdest part to me about the idea that he was a “professional” is how young the shooter is.
The only conclusion I can draw is that he wanted to make this appear like a professional hit & he took some reasonable steps to escape capture. I’d be surprised if he isn’t apprehended eventually.
The silencer was because NYC has that “thing” (don’t know what its called) that recognizes gunshots and immediately sends torrents of police, drones etc at the sight.
There were people standing right there (at least one) and at least two people in sitting cars right there. The silencer wasn’t for them.
Yes, this does not seem like a professional hit to me either. It’s much too brazen and sloppy. The insider trading also seems like a side story. I could see that leading to suicide but not murder. It enriches the trader but doesn’t actually harm anyone. The stock is doing more than fine— it’s gone up about $200 a share since 2020. And the company could just fire him— they don’t need to assassinate him. As for the wife, what’s her motive to kill the father of her kids? Separating is not a motive for murder.
Separating might not seem like a motive for murder to you, but it’s been the motive in many a murder. Just saying.
I agree that it’s not a professional hit. Fairly well planned, yes. But not professional.
My sympathies go to his kids, and some to his wife. Heather cox Richardson’s newsletter had the details of a railroad baron being shot in NYC in 1872, and how newspapers covered it and it marked a turning point against robber barons, politically. Since our government is about to be made of those guys, I think it will take a little longer to make the changes needed to keep them out of power. I’m hoping the opposition to Tr*mp leans into the anger this is exposing and finds out how to talk about things that matter.
“Flirting” is the red herring – establishing presence and adherence to the plan.
Hmmmm….
Interesting. Can you elaborate on this?
@KD, what do you mean? Was there some purpose to him showing his face versus it was a slip up?
Maybe he’s actually wearing some kind of prosthesis (sp?) or fake teeth or something so that the “face” being shown is not the actual face of the killer?
How many people died for him to afford those million dollar homes, I’d wonder. How many people suffered without care. Quite a shock, it must have been, to realize other people can choose to play god, too.
I wish them luck with that 10K reward. They’d have to add a few more zeroes for many to consider caring, I reckon.
Maybe they should change the reward from $10K to fully covered medical procedures.
Lmao
@Gabby, that would be worth something!
This info is coming from my daughter, I did not fact check. According to social media his clothing and pack back were identified and are on the high end side. The silencer used cost around $11k. He comes across as someone raised with money. The expensive but not showy clothes.
They are now saying that he may have been in NY for awhile. So probably had a gateway all set up.
My theory, he had a car nearby, drove over the Canadian border at a less traveled spot, and took a flight out from Canada to a country that does not extradite.
That’s interesting about the clothes.
I read in one story, however, that authorities said the guy rode a bus from Atlanta to NYC before he checked into the hostel. That said, do we know how long he was at the hostel?
@TIGERMCQUEEN. The bus originated from Atlanta, they don’t know where along the way he boarded the bus. He only stayed at the hostel for a few days. They believed he then checked into a hotel. Sounds like he was activities track him in NY from November 24.
This is why I theorize that he drove his car to NY and left it there and took a bus back.
Pretty much established that he went to the bus station and took a bus out of town. They don’t know where.
They also think he took a bus to get into NYC.
Remember Remember the 4th of December…..
Wait, a multi-millionaire CEO of a multi-billion dollar company lived in a $1M house down the street from his wife’s $1M house? That’s so delightfully Midwest!
Rich couple separates, it’s too messy/expensive to divorce, he buys a nearby home to be close to the kids, and everyone lives happily ever after in their giant, LCOL, suburban house! Honestly, that setup is the most believable part of the whole story.
Or did the wife get frustrated and thought 120 million (his alleged net worth) is better than asking for a check every month. And found someone to do this. That watched one too many episodes of Barry.
The more I learn about this guy. He really was just an awful person.
I don’t know how much of that fortune will be left after all the lawsuits are settled.
It’s amazing how in hock guys like this often turn out to be.
Curious to know how many people bitching (rightly so) on social media about their appalling healthcare coverage actually voted for the party that wants to repeal the ACA. The American healthcare system is barbaric. Yes, we have long wait times in Canada but my family won’t be bankrupted by serious illness or injury.
Conservative premiers are doing their best to damage the system and bring in private medicine though. Ontario and Alberta in particular. Sadly many dumb Canadians don’t see this.
Has anyone considered whether he set it up himself (like “suicide by cop” where this was “suicide by apparently unknown shooter”)? The feds were closing in on his insider trading, he’d dumped a ton of stock and made millions (so his kids will be taken care of), marriage bust, the shooter knew where he’d be at what precise time, etc…
Manhattan juries have no problems convicting Orange Blob for, well, anything, and may very well get hung on a health insurance company Exec’s assassin. 😀 Go figure.
It’s interesting to watch the assumptions fly and now that we know this guy was an all around douchebag there are even more assumptions being made.
*CEO of an abusive health insurance scam
*Insider trading
*Bitcoin jerkwad? (I don’t know that one for sure. I saw something about him being in trouble with someone over bitcoin garbage)
For now, most people assume the shooter killed Thompson due to the health insurance issue but really, it could have been just a random kill. The shooter could have just wanted to kill someone in a dramatic fashion and Thompson happened to be the one the shooter decided on.
Regardless of why Thompson was chosen as the target…I’m glad this has opened up discussions about the abusive health insurance scams in the US (not just UnitedHealth).
What even is “4th degree” DUI?
In my state we came up with a fictitious blood alcohol content level at which everyone is too drunk to drive. No “degrees “