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.
a $50,000 reward
So the cost of an asprin, a bandaid, and 3 jellybeans in a US hospital?
Doesn’t even include ambulance ride. City EMS is out of network for UHC
We had to pay a $2500 fee for the ambulance because my spouse got hit-and-run by a car outside of the county that we live in.
Only if your not denied (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
Hey, nobody ever claimed the FBI was good at doing its job.
Woah, the FBI is amazing at causing controversies, such as violating civil rights, unnecessary shoot outs, politicized investigations, and more!
They’re gonna frog boil it and end up fucking it up.
100k from the start might have gotten someone to say something that would pay off.
But they’re being cheap and are going to slowly walk it up as I go gets less and less useful and a movement if not giving a fuck grows.
That doesn’t seem like it’s enough money to pay an enormous hospital bill.
They’d have better chances if they offered the former CEO’s one month’s pay.
I mean yeah. That’s the going rate to sell one’s soul.
If it was Elon Musk do you think they would still pretend he only made $1 as a salary?
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.
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.
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.
Why would they? That just eats into their profits. It doesn’t make them richer.
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.
50,000 dollars is how much the fbi thinks people to turn on each other for
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
The longer it takes, the less likely they’ll find him no matter how much money they put up.
But I thought the NY mayor said they “know his name” [yahoo]. 🤔
Hey NYPD, his last name is Ligma!
Right as the look a like contest was being held.
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
Or they’ll make sure they don’t get him alive, like they did with Michael Reinoehl.
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.
Time to hodl the info.
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.
But he was white and rich. The people who pull the strings can’t feel vulnerable.
Request denied.
Nope. Still not snitching. Fuck that ceo.
Still not snitching.
So you know something?
…No…
Society is offering $50,001 to shut the fuck up.
Ill not talk, wheres my $50,001?
You’ll get it in healthcare reimbursements after the other CEOs drop.
Isn’t it fucked that they’re doing this for this guy just because he’s rich?
We are all created equal. Some are created more equal than others.
+1 for the Orwell reference
They’re doing it because the guy on the run crossed state lines. That makes it federal, so the FBI has jurisdiction and it’s easier for them to work cross-border than the NYPD. It’s getting more resources because it’s a highly publicized case. I’m sure there’s some pressure from some wealthy and/or powerful people as well to find whoever did it, but it’s not surprising that the FBI is involved now.
And surely they offer $50k every time they believe a murder suspect has crossed state lines, right? Every single time?
They offer money for a lot of cases, yes. Up to 5 million for most wanted.
Did you misread my question, or…?
Thanks for info
Yes, but also completely fucking unsurprising.
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.
People are gunned down every day in the streets, cops barely investigate it. What gives this guy priority?
$$$
They suspect that the shooter might not have been a cop.
Cops exist to protect capital, not people.
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?
I just checked the NYPD’s most wanted list:
- Of the 33 posted photos, 31 of them are black men, 1 is a white man, 1 is a car.
- The maximum payout on all of them is $3,500
… Please feel free to draw your own conclusions about this CEO manhunt.
What… did the car… do?
Human Trafficing.
The $3,500 is for the car, right?
The payout for every tip they have listed is $3,500, so at least they’re not singling the car out.
What do you think?
Very first thought I had.
I was driving through rural Tennessee today and I’m pretty sure I saw him at a gas station.
I have a friend in Iowa who said the same thing.
Man this guy really goes places
New conspiracy theory. He is big foot
Patient creature this big foot, waited for the right time in the woods, shaved it all off and came incognito to NYC.
I saw him in Outer Mongolia today.
