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Luigi Mangione’s guilty plea reignites legal battles between state and federal prosecutors

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The legal tug-of-war over Mangione follows a long tradition of jurisdictional battles in cases involving everyone from mob figures to politicians and other high-profile defendants.

Luigi Mangione at a court hearing on May 18. Jeenah Moon / Pool via AFP-Getty Images

Aug. 18, 2026, 2:41 PM EDT

By Laura Italiano

Luigi Mangione’s recent federal guilty plea in the 2024 fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson — a plea that will at least delay and could eventually derail his state murder trial — caps the latest in a long history of turf wars between federal and state prosecutors in high-profile cases, both in New York City and beyond.

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