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Luigi Mangione Pleads Guilty in Federal Court, USS Abraham Lincoln Sailors' Families Sound the Alarm, and Cardi B Admits She Used to Steal from Old Navy · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Luigi Mangioni has pled guilty to stalking United Healthcare CEO
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  Speaker 1: Brian Thompson before killing him. He now faces life in prison.
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  Speaker 2: Today, the Southern District of New York, together with our
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  Speaker 2: law enforcement partners, writes the final chapter of Mangione's federal prosecutor.
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  Speaker 2: Now he stands convicted in federal court and faces life
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  Speaker 2: in prison.
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  Speaker 1: And families of sailors aboard USS Abraham Lincoln say their
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  Speaker 1: loved ones are mentally breaking down after months at sea,
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  Speaker 1: but the Trump administration is downplaying the concerns.
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  Speaker 3: The completely misrepresentative. Listen, we make pure at every shift,
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  Speaker 3: every crew, every captain has everything we can provide them
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  Speaker 3: at every single month.
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  Speaker 1: And Cardi b says she used to steal from Old
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  Speaker 1: Navy in high school. Now Old Navy is paying her.
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  Speaker 1: It's Monday, August seventeenth, from the Black Effects Podcast Network.
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  Speaker 1: I Memi Brown. This is front page and here are
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  Speaker 1: the day's biggest stories. Stay with me. Luigi Mangiani has
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  Speaker 1: pled guilty in federal court to stalking United Healthcare CEO
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  Speaker 1: Brian Thompson before killing him. Mangioni entered the plea Friday
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  Speaker 1: in Manhattan and for the first time he described in
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  Speaker 1: his own words how he planned the killing. Mangioni said
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  Speaker 1: he learned United Healthcare was holding its annual investor conference
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  Speaker 1: in New York. He admitted to emailing the company and
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  Speaker 1: pretending to be an investor with more than fifty billion
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  Speaker 1: dollars in capital so he could find out exactly where
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  Speaker 1: the conference was being held. He also admitted to using
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  Speaker 1: a three D printer to make part of the gun. Then,
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  Speaker 1: Mangioni told the judge, quote, my travel to New York
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  Speaker 1: and email to United Healthcare was with the intent to
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  Speaker 1: shoot Brian Thompson. I shot mister Thompson in Manhattan, and
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  Speaker 1: he died. I knew what I was doing was illegal.
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  Speaker 1: Thompson's wife and mother were in the courtroom. His wife
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  Speaker 1: wiped away tears as prosecutors went through the evidence.
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  Speaker 2: Today, the Southern distrit of New York, together with our
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  Speaker 2: law enforcement partners, writes the final chapter of Mangioni's federal prosecution.
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  Speaker 2: Now he stands convicted in federal court and faces life
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  Speaker 2: in prison. One other point that's important to note. While
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  Speaker 2: the defendant pled guilty, our office does not have a
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  Speaker 2: plea agreement with him. Instead, he pled open which means
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  Speaker 2: he pled guilty to all pending counts in the indictment.
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  Speaker 2: There are no accommodations or concessions, and we are free
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  Speaker 2: to seek the maximum penalty under the law.
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  Speaker 1: His family later called the guilty plea quote an important
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  Speaker 1: step for justice. Mangioni pled guilty to two federal stocking
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  Speaker 1: charges and now faces up to life in prison. He
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  Speaker 1: is scheduled to be sentenced December eighteenth, but this does
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  Speaker 1: not in the case. Mangioni is also facing state murder
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  Speaker 1: charges in New York. His lawyer immediately asks the judge
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  Speaker 1: to throw those charges out and.
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  Speaker 4: Mister Mangioni has accepted full responsibility for the death of
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  Speaker 4: Brian Thompson, arising from the events of December fourth, twenty
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  Speaker 4: twenty four, outside of the United Healthcare Investor conference here
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  Speaker 4: in Midtown Manhattan. It was a single tragic event, yet
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  Speaker 4: he's being prosecuted twice for the same conduct. As Luigi
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  Speaker 4: explained in court today, he endured years of severe, debilitating
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  Speaker 4: pain following a broken back while struggling to navigate our
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  Speaker 4: healthcare and health insurance systems. Like the thousands of people
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  Speaker 4: who've reached out since this tragedy to share their own experiences.
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  Speaker 4: He believed that the system had failed him and destroyed
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  Speaker 4: his life. Despite this being a single isolated event, mister
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  Speaker 4: Mangioni has been unfairly treated since the outset in every way,
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  Speaker 4: and has successfully fought off terrorism charges and the death
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  Speaker 4: penalty while also fighting at the same time to simultaneous
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  Speaker 4: prosecutions in two jurisdictions who are trying to punish him
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  Speaker 4: twice for the exact conduct. He's been treated differently from
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  Speaker 4: every other defendant charged with this offense in New York. However, thankfully,
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  Speaker 4: New York law does not allow this. New York law
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  Speaker 4: does not permit a person to be prosecuted and punished
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  Speaker 4: twice for the exact same prime under a statute that
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  Speaker 4: governs successive prosecutions.
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  Speaker 1: It's also known.
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  Speaker 4: As the double jeopardy law. Today's guilty plea triggers the statute,
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  Speaker 4: and we just filed our motion and state court explaining
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  Speaker 4: why the state charges must be dismissed under New York's
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  Speaker 4: double jeopardy protections.
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  Speaker 1: The Manhattan District Attorney's office disagrees and says the federal
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  Speaker 1: stocking charges and the state murder charges are different crimes.
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  Speaker 1: His state trial is currently scheduled to begin September eighth,
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  Speaker 1: and of sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln say their
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  Speaker 1: loved ones are reaching a breaking point. The aircraft carrier
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  Speaker 1: has been deployed in support of the US war with Iran.
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  Speaker 1: About five thousand sailors and marines are aboard, and the
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  Speaker 1: ship has now gone two hundred and forty four straight
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  Speaker 1: days without a port stop. Families say their loved ones
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  Speaker 1: are dealing with food shortages, running out of basic supplies,
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  Speaker 1: and struggling with their mental health. There have also been
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  Speaker 1: reports of multiple sailors trying to jump overboard. Earlier this month,
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  Speaker 1: one sailor did go overboard. He was rescued and later
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  Speaker 1: transferred off the ship for medical care. One mother says
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  Speaker 1: she watched her son's mental health change as his apployment
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  Speaker 1: dragged on. She told local outlets quote, he had been
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  Speaker 1: very positive, and he started getting very dark. She described
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  Speaker 1: what is happening aboard the ship as quote a scene
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  Speaker 1: out of a horror movie where everybody is dead but
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  Speaker 1: they don't know it yet. But while families are sounding
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  Speaker 1: the alarm, the Trump administration is downplaying the concerns.
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  Speaker 3: Completely misrepresentative listen, we made you are at every ship,
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  Speaker 3: every crew, every captain has everything we can provide them
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  Speaker 3: at every single moment.
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  Speaker 5: Some deployments are longer than others, and I have more
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  Speaker 5: respect and gratitude for those sailors than anybody. What they
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  Speaker 5: do in those high seas and those austere conditions with
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  Speaker 5: less port calls.
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  Speaker 3: It's incredible.
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  Speaker 5: Americans don't understand what it's like to do that. So
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  Speaker 5: as someone who's been not been on a ship like that,
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  Speaker 5: but been on long deployments, I feel it. I want
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  Speaker 5: them home as soon as everybody else do. I want
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  Speaker 5: folks rotating as quickly as possible. I want the best
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  Speaker 5: for them. My commanders know that, our service secretaries know that.
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  Speaker 5: The President expects that, and so to that crew and
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  Speaker 5: to all those crews, We're going to do everything we
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  Speaker 5: can for you.
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  Speaker 1: And President Trump was also acts whether the sailors have
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  Speaker 1: been deployed too long. This was his response. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: not nearly long enough.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody says. Another carrier is on the way to replace
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  Speaker 1: the Lincoln. The USS George Washington is expected to take over,
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  Speaker 1: but that could still take several weeks, and once it does,
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  Speaker 1: the Lincoln still has to make the trip back home
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  Speaker 1: to San Diego. Meanwhile, lawmakers are now demanding answers. Arizona
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  Speaker 1: Senator Reuben Galiago, a Marine vet, wants the Navy to
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  Speaker 1: allow bipartisan group of lawmakers to visit the ship. Connecticut
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  Speaker 1: Senator Richard Bloominghal has also sent a letter to HEGSEF
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  Speaker 1: demanding more information about conditions aboard the Lincoln. More than
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  Speaker 1: fifty thousand American troops are currently deployed in support of
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  Speaker 1: the war, and Cardi B is having what she calls
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  Speaker 1: a full circle moment. Cardi is a new face of
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  Speaker 1: Old Navy's denim campaign, but while celebrating the deal on
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  Speaker 1: Instagram Live, she admitted she already had a history with
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  Speaker 1: the store. Gardi said quote I used to steal from
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  Speaker 1: you guys all the time. She says, back in high school,
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  Speaker 1: she would steal cardigans from Old Navy so she could
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  Speaker 1: look fresh at school. Now Old Navy is paying her
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  Speaker 1: to wear the clothes. Cardi B is the face of
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  Speaker 1: the company's new Most Wanted denim campaign. She even joked
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  Speaker 1: about why the jeans work for her body, saying she's
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  Speaker 1: five to three, no waists but plenty of hips, and
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  Speaker 1: Old Navy's Chief executive Officer, Zach Posen says, Cardi B
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  Speaker 1: makes fashion feel quote joyful, personal, and entirely her own.
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  Speaker 1: So the teenager who said she used to steal from
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  Speaker 1: Old Navy is now getting paid to sell Old Navy jeans.
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  Speaker 1: That's your front page, I Mimi Brown. This podcast was
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