Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, came from a wealthy and prominent family in Baltimore, Maryland.
His father, Louis Mangione, known as Lou, now runs much of the family’s business empire, which was set up by his late father.
Nicholas Mangione, the family patriarch, owned the Hayfields Country Club and Turf Valley Resort, as well as nursing home company Lorien Health Services and local conservative radio station WCBM.
Nicholas came from a poor Italian immigrant family in Baltimore’s Little Italy neighborhood and went on to have 10 children and 37 grandchildren.
After his father’s death in 2008, Louis took on a leading role in managing the family’s business fortune.
A public filing from 2022 for the Mangione Family Foundation lists Louis Mangione as vice president and his mother, Mary, as president, who has since passed away in 2023.
A 2003 article in The Washington Poststated that Nicholas groomed his children to take over managing …