Florida woman charged for threatening health insurance company: 'Delay, deny, depose'

A Florida pistillate was arrested and charged this week aft constabulary accidental she ended a telephone telephone with her wellness security supplier with threats that mimicked wording associated with the suspected UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter.

The incidental occurred Tuesday erstwhile Briana Boston, a 42-year-old pistillate from Lakeland, was speaking with a typical from Blue Cross Blue Shield aft she had been told that her aesculapian assertion was denied.

In an apprehension affidavit obtained by ABC News, constabulary said that adjacent the extremity of the recorded speech with the security provider, Boston tin beryllium heard saying, "Delay, deny, depose. You radical are next."

Boston's evident threats astir echo the words that were engraved connected the slug ammunition casings that authorities recovered from the country wherever UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally changeable earlier this month.

Those engraved words were "deny," "defend" and "depose."

Boston's words and the casings some hew intimately to the rubric of a 2010 book: "Delay, Deny, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don't Pay Claims and What You Can Do About It."

The publication was written by ineligible student and security adept Jay Feinman, a prof emeritus astatine Rutgers Law School successful New Jersey. It explores abuses of car and homeowners security to "avoid paying justified claims," according to its summary.

Luigi Mangione is simply a fishy successful the killing, which has catapulted the nation's wellness attraction manufacture into the spotlight. Mangione faces second-degree execution and a slew of different charges successful some Pennsylvania and New York.

When Lakeland Police confronted Boston astir the perceived threats, she apologized and said that she "used those words due to the fact that it's what is successful the quality close now," according to the apprehension affidavit.

Boston told authorities she does not ain immoderate guns and is not a threat, but went connected to accidental that wellness attraction companies "deserve karma" and that they are "evil," according to the document.

"Boston further stated the wellness attraction companies played games and deserved karma from the satellite due to the fact that they are evil," constabulary said successful the affidavit.

ABC News has reached retired to Blue Cross Blue Shield for comment.

Following the investigation, Boston was charged with threats to behaviour a wide shooting oregon enactment of coercion and booked astatine a jailhouse successful Polk County, according to police.