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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
Probably when it’s as important to them as thing given the reaction it got from the public
They offer money for a lot of cases, yes. Up to 5 million for most wanted.
Did you misread my question, or…?
Naw. They offer $5k for every fugitive and are involved in every case that crosses state lines.
Unless you mean the exactly 50k part, in which case they could just put him on the most wanted and make it 5 million because rich people. Hey, who knows, maybe they will.
Thanks for info
Yes, but also completely fucking unsurprising.
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.
Nope. Still not snitching. Fuck that ceo.
Still not snitching.
So you know something?
…No…
Request denied.
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.
you could use that $50k to pay for one night at the hospital that your insurance won’t cover!
Or a few months of the medication that works for you but insurance will only cover the shittier alternatives.
Maybe someone will talk when they offer better insurance coverage.
Also, many times reward money isn’t paid due to ‘reasons’, like “yeah you gave legid info which led to the arrest, but we got the same information through other channels too”. You get your reward money rejected like it’s your insurance claim.
Yeah people don’t realize they reject paying out reward money the same way insurance rejects paying to keep people alive.
You only get it if you directly lead to the correct arrest and that they feel they absolutely couldn’t have gotten the arrest any other way and they will always pretend they could have done it without you. It’s liberals after all.
Cops are liberals now?
“Hey guys, what if instead of a class war we just kept saying derogatory things about each other while the 1% laugh at us?”
How about liberals stop moaning when other members of the working class try to respond and get stuff done and they just complain that people didn’t elect a person to stop all the bad things from happening for them?
Who’s doing that? I’m not seeing that. All I’m seeing is you trying to shift the conversation from “billionaires bad” to “liberals bad” for no apparent reason which is exactly what the 1% want.
I’ve apparently pushed a button so I’m gonna assume you associate with the title.
Yeah I’m not gonna bother but the liberals are the people that didn’t let the US run a candidate that said anything bad about billionaires and sided with the economy, and have since after blamed people of minorities, and wine loudly when people point out their hypocrisy and lack of action.
The petite bourgeoisie won’t let us get even close to the real ones while they state we have to do things their way.
I’m fine with saying fuck billionaires and will be happy to keep working towards their end, I’m just not gonna hold my tongue about who isn’t on our side.
Yeah I’m not gonna bother but…
Procedes to bother for 3 paragraphs
I’m not black either, but if somebody randomly decided to blame black people for the system being bullshit I’d call that out too and tell them “you’re directing your anger towards the wrong people.”
Groups asking other people to put in the work to make them money or do their job faster? I mean the insurance companies that pretend to be helping people sure are and honestly how cops operate lately yes. Almost like they have unequal treatment of others based on how useful they think they are to society and it’s ability to generate more wealth?
Leaving it up for someone else to solve is very liberal if nothing else.
Could cops and billionaires be the problem?
No, the liberals are to blame.
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.
