Luigi Mangione was monitored to avoid 'Epstein-style situation,' prison guard says

Luigi Mangione was on “constant watch” after his arrest in Pennsylvania last year in part because the state prison where he was held wanted to avoid an “Epstein-style situation,” a corrections officer testified Monday at a pretrial hearing

Luigi Mangione was on “constant watch” after his arrest in Pennsylvania last year in part because the state prison where he was held wanted to avoid an “Epstein-style situation,” a corrections officer testified Monday at a pretrial hearing.

Mangione is accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel last year. He has pleaded not guilty to nine state counts and four federal charges.

The prison guard’s testimony referred to Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender who died in federal custody in 2019 while awaiting prosecution on sex-trafficking charges. Epstein’s death was ruled a suicide.

“I had to fill out a form about his movements about seven times an hour,” Tomas Rivers, the guard, told the court, referring to Mangione.

Rivers took the stand during the first of a series of hearings focused on Mangione’s lawyers’ efforts to exclude evidence from his state murder trial.