Luigi Mangione, the Maryland Ivy Leaguer accused of assassinating the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, hired the same New York prison consultant as disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein.
Craig Rosfeld, a former financial expert who became a consultant to white-collar defendants after serving time in prison for investment and tax evasion, has “extensive first-hand knowledge of the New York City Department of Corrections and the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.” ” according to his bio on his website.
In December 2015, he and two business partners were convicted of defrauding 15 investors out of $11 million, according to the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. Rosfeld was also charged with falsifying business records. He was sentenced to 1 1/2 to 4 1/2 years in prison.
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Luigi Mangione leaves court following his arraignment in New York City Criminal Court on Monday, December 23, 2024. Magnione has pleaded not guilty to state charges for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. (Rashid Umar Abbasi, Fox News Digital)
Rosfeld's office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment, but his company Inside Outside Ltd. New York Post article We posted about his recruitment on our website.
In addition to consulting defendants from indictment to sentencing, Inside Outside also works with defense attorneys on specific court filings and drafting letters of support.
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Prison consultant Craig Rosfeld (left) speaks alongside Harvey Weinstein's attorney Diana Fabi Samson outside the Queens Criminal Courthouse in New York on Thursday, May 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Julia Nickinson)
Mr. Mangione has been involved in several border-related incidents, including the December 4 assassination-style shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson just outside the hotel where he was scheduled to hold an investor meeting that morning. He is accused of planning a trip beyond the border.
Thompson is from Minnesota and was in New York City for the event.
Mangione then fled the city and led police on a five-day interstate manhunt that ended with employees and customers wearing wanted posters inside a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania. It is said that he was arrested because he recognized something.
Former film producer Harvey Weinstein appears in Manhattan Criminal Court on July 19, 2024 in New York City. Prosecutors are preparing to retry the former movie mogul after his 2020 rape conviction was quashed. (Kenna Betancourt Pool/Getty Images)
Police found him in possession of the alleged murder weapons, including a 3D-printed receiver and suppressor, as well as a fake ID that he allegedly used to check into a Manhattan hostel before the shooting. I discovered it.
Mangione faces numerous charges, including first-degree murder with intent to promote terrorism at the state level and stalking-murder charges in federal court. He faces misdemeanor charges of possession of a false identification and criminal possession of a firearm in both New York and Pennsylvania.
He is being held without bail at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
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Weinstein is a former Hollywood movie mogul who was convicted of sex crimes in 2020. A court later overturned his conviction, and he remains in prison awaiting retrial, with additional charges expected.
He was also convicted of sexual assault in Los Angeles in 2021 and faces similar charges in London.
Fox News' Lauryn Overhultz contributed to this report.
