As Luigi Mangione sits in a New York cell awaiting the most recent improvement in his homicide trial, a relative of his is shifting to the identical metropolis for a wholly completely different function.
Peter Mangione, the cousin of the 27-year-old accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024, has signed with second-division soccer workforce Brooklyn FC.
Peter is a 24-year-old midfielder who performed the final two seasons with FC Cincinnati 2 in MLS Subsequent Professional – the newbie league run by Main League Soccer.
Final season, Mangione made 28 appearances for the workforce – logging two targets and 5 assists.
Within the membership’s press launch, Brooklyn describes their newest signing as bringing ‘a balanced midfield profile… with the engine to cowl floor and the tip product to impression matches within the closing third.’
Brooklyn FC is about to play its first season of soccer in 2026 in a minor league baseball stadium situated in Coney Island.
Brooklyn FC has signed midfielder Peter Mangione (white equipment) to their roster
Peter’s cousin is Luigi Mangione, who’s accused of killing a healthcare CEO in the identical metropolis
Peter has performed the final two seasons for newbie MLS NextPro facet FC Cincinnati 2
The soccer participant’s notorious cousin is within the midst of a trial the place he has been charged with second-degree homicide and a number of counts of prison possession of a weapon.
Expenses of first-degree homicide and second-degree homicide as against the law of terrorism had been dismissed in September 2025.
The newest updates within the case might see the dying penalty thrown out as Mangione’s attorneys accuse Lawyer Common Pam Bondi of getting a battle of curiosity.
Mangione’s attorneys declare that Bondi was biased in her determination to hunt the dying penalty in opposition to him within the killing of Thompson, the protection wrote in a courtroom submitting in late-December.
Bondi ought to have recused herself over the ‘profound battle of curiosity’ stemming from her prior work as a lobbyist at Ballard Companions, a agency that represented the UnitedHealthcare’s dad or mum firm, the doc acknowledged.
The protection additional alleged that she broke her vow to observe moral laws and withdrawal from issues pertaining to Ballard purchasers for a yr, based on the submitting reviewed by the Each day Mail.
Luigi’s attorneys have moved to throw out the dying penalty amid an alleged battle of curiosity from United States Lawyer Common Pam Bondi
They argued Bondi has continued to revenue from her work for Ballard – and, not directly, from its work for UnitedHealth Group – via a profit-sharing association with the lobbying agency and an outlined contribution plan it administers.
The protection now desires prosecutors barred from looking for the dying penalty, two federal prices dropped and sure proof dismissed from the case.
Mangione, 27, has pleaded not responsible to state and federal homicide prices.
The state prices carry the potential for life in jail, whereas federal prosecutors are looking for the dying penalty. Neither trial has been scheduled.
