{"id":77403,"date":"2026-08-14T10:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T15:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/14\/luigi-mangione-indicates-he-is-prepared-to-plead-guilty-in-federal-case\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T10:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T15:55:10","slug":"luigi-mangione-indicates-he-is-prepared-to-plead-guilty-in-federal-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/14\/luigi-mangione-indicates-he-is-prepared-to-plead-guilty-in-federal-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Luigi Mangione indicates he is prepared to plead guilty in federal case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mangione also faces separate state trial over killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan, due to start on 8 September<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/aug\/14\/luigi-mangione-court-plea-deal-ceo-killing-live\">Luigi Mangione trial \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A hurriedly scheduled hearing for Luigi Mangione\u2019s federal case in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/brian-thompson-shooting\">the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson<\/a> got under way on Friday morning, with the defendant indicating that he is prepared to plead guilty in a deal in the federal case.<\/p>\n<p>Mangione faces two stalking counts in his federal case, as well as murder and weapons charges in a separate New York state case. He has pleaded not guilty in both cases. Both the federal and state cases could lead to a life prison sentence.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/14\/luigi-mangione-hearing-federal-case\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mangione also faces separate state trial over killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan, due to start on 8 September Luigi Mangione trial \u2013 latest updates A hurriedly scheduled hearing for Luigi Mangione\u2019s federal case in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson got under way on Friday morning, with the defendant indicating that &#8230; <a title=\"Luigi Mangione indicates he is prepared to plead guilty in federal case\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/14\/luigi-mangione-indicates-he-is-prepared-to-plead-guilty-in-federal-case\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Luigi Mangione indicates he is prepared to plead guilty in federal case\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}