Summary

The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the gunman who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

The gunman, who arrived in New York City on November 24th, shot Thompson on December 4th outside a hotel hosting an investor conference.

Investigators believe the gunman, who concealed his identity with a mask, fled the city on a bus, leaving behind a backpack in Central Park.

  • EndOfLine@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    So 0.5% of his reported $10+ million annually compensation package.

    Interesting that neither his colleagues nor family are chipping in to make this larger.

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        17 days ago

        Yup. Dudes body was still warm on the pavement outside and they still had the conference like our was a normal Tuesday. The wealthy are disgusting people. Rotten all the way to the core. They actually think they are the reason society functions.

        They are in for a rude awakening. Trump is going to destroy what ever remains of the middle and poor classes, and in response we are going to eat the rich.

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    They’d have better chances if they offered the former CEO’s one month’s pay.

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        16 days ago

        I think they’d publicly wave around a vague concept hinting at the potential sum, then if the shooter was caught, they’d really come out and give a $1 reward to a whistleblower if only just to make a mockery of the concept.

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          Sounds about right. The peasants do what the rich want because the rich think everyone should do what they say and the peasants think they will get rewarded. Neither is true.

          A $1 reward would just be the punchline.

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    17 days ago

    The fbi is now on the case for a murder of a man on the street. They wouldn’t pull these resources for any other murder.

    This is a joke.

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    17 days ago

    5X upgrade in bounty from $10K offered by crime stoppers. Investigation must be drying up. Probably be up to 6 figures by end of month

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      17 days ago

      The longer it takes, the less likely they’ll find him no matter how much money they put up.

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        Even if the FBI does catch this guy, the Feds are still gonna have a helluva time trying to cobble together an impartial jury, not to mention alternatives. One question will eliminate a large portion of the jury pool…

        “Do you currently, or previously had UHC as a health insurer?”

        I could see this case having a hung jury or even seeing jury nullification occur - though it’s highly unlikely for nullification to happen.

        The Feds will put ungodly amounts of pressure to accept a plea deal.

        Edit: added the missing ‘y’ to ‘currently’ and added a space between ‘previously’ and 'had

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          Or they’ll make sure they don’t get him alive, like they did with Michael Reinoehl.

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            Ya, that is sadly the most likely outcome of all.

            It’ll send a message to the masses that you won’t get your day in court for crimes against the ruling class, but you will still get a sentence… a bullet.

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    17 days ago

    Can someone give context, is this the same reward that’s given for the other about 800 murders that happen each year in New York or is that guy getting special rich guy privileges beyond his death?

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    17 days ago

    you could use that $50k to pay for one night at the hospital that your insurance won’t cover!

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      Or a few months of the medication that works for you but insurance will only cover the shittier alternatives.

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    Maybe someone will talk when they offer better insurance coverage.

    Also, many times reward money isn’t paid due to ‘reasons’, like “yeah you gave legid info which led to the arrest, but we got the same information through other channels too”. You get your reward money rejected like it’s your insurance claim.

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      Yeah people don’t realize they reject paying out reward money the same way insurance rejects paying to keep people alive.

      You only get it if you directly lead to the correct arrest and that they feel they absolutely couldn’t have gotten the arrest any other way and they will always pretend they could have done it without you. It’s liberals after all.

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          “Hey guys, what if instead of a class war we just kept saying derogatory things about each other while the 1% laugh at us?”

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            How about liberals stop moaning when other members of the working class try to respond and get stuff done and they just complain that people didn’t elect a person to stop all the bad things from happening for them?

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              Who’s doing that? I’m not seeing that. All I’m seeing is you trying to shift the conversation from “billionaires bad” to “liberals bad” for no apparent reason which is exactly what the 1% want.

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                I’ve apparently pushed a button so I’m gonna assume you associate with the title.

                Yeah I’m not gonna bother but the liberals are the people that didn’t let the US run a candidate that said anything bad about billionaires and sided with the economy, and have since after blamed people of minorities, and wine loudly when people point out their hypocrisy and lack of action.

                The petite bourgeoisie won’t let us get even close to the real ones while they state we have to do things their way.

                I’m fine with saying fuck billionaires and will be happy to keep working towards their end, I’m just not gonna hold my tongue about who isn’t on our side.

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                  Yeah I’m not gonna bother but…

                  Procedes to bother for 3 paragraphs

                  I’m not black either, but if somebody randomly decided to blame black people for the system being bullshit I’d call that out too and tell them “you’re directing your anger towards the wrong people.”

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          Groups asking other people to put in the work to make them money or do their job faster? I mean the insurance companies that pretend to be helping people sure are and honestly how cops operate lately yes. Almost like they have unequal treatment of others based on how useful they think they are to society and it’s ability to generate more wealth?

          Leaving it up for someone else to solve is very liberal if nothing else.

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    17 days ago

    The amount of grief and strife this man caused to countless families through the actions of his corporation are beyond calculation.

    50k won’t even register.