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Health Insurance Leaders Pressured DOJ To Charge Luigi Mangione (danboguslaw.substack.com)

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[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Zapeta-Calil came from out of the country, so the same applies to him.

[–] xor@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

that’s not how it works….
luigi, allegedly, traveled across state lines for the sole purpose of the killing, and immediately left the state.
Zapeta-Calil was living in ny and committed a murder while he was there. He didn’t travel there just to burn someone… he was there already and did it….
but god damn that’s a horrible way to die. the worst i can imagine except for some deliberately slow torture….

[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's not unheard of in other cases, and the DOJ doesn't charge the killer with federal murder charges. Rittenhouse, for example. The story here is that the DOJ did something unusual under pressure from corporate interests.

[–] xor@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

rittenhouse should’ve been federal… but he (supposedly) crossed state lines to enforce the law and ended up murdering someone….
i think he hoped to murder someone but still, it’s different and pretty clearly a federal case.
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they definitely selectively enforce it, like when some anarchists drove from portland to Seattle in order to spray paint a courthouse during a protest: that became federal charges because they anarchists, mostly….
i was honestly surprised when states were charging luigi instead of the feds at first