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(NewsNation) — The New York lawyer for Luigi Mangione, the antheral accused successful the shooting decease of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is not the lone idiosyncratic successful her intermediate household linked to a high-profile client.
Karen Friedman Agnifilo, who has been retained to correspond Mangione connected second-degree execution charges, is joined to Marc Agnifilo, the lawyer for Sean “Diddy” Combs, according to multiple media reports. Combs, the disgraced hip-hop mogul, faces sex trafficking and racketeering charges.
Friedman Agnifilo served arsenic the Manhattan main adjunct territory lawyer betwixt 2014 and 2021. She worked antecedently successful backstage signifier and served arsenic wide counsel connected transgression justness argumentation for New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s bureau betwixt 2006 and 2010. The New York Post reported Friedman Agnifilo joined her husband's firm, Agnifilo Intrater, successful 2021.
Friedman Agnifilo told the New York Daily News that she does not program to contented immoderate remark astatine this clip astir representing Mangione. However, she worked for CNN earlier she was retained by Mangione and gave an denotation of however she whitethorn dainty the case, Newsday reported.
"It looks similar to maine determination mightiness beryllium a 'not blameworthy by crushed of insanity' defence due to the fact that the grounds is going to beryllium truthful overwhelming that helium did what helium did," Friedman Agnifilo said connected a CNN broadcast.
Mangione’s lawsuit volition beryllium the latest high-profile proceedings for Friedman Agnifilo, who has worked successful transgression justice, litigation, and trials for 3 decades. In betwixt cases, Friedman Agnifilo serves arsenic a ineligible expert for cablegram quality networks and adjacent arsenic a ineligible advisor for the amusement “Law and Order.”
Mangione is presently being held without bail successful Pennsylvania wherever helium faces weapon and forgery offenses. He was apprehended successful Altoona, Pennsylvania erstwhile a McDonald’s customer recognized him and tipped disconnected employees. He is expected to waive extradition to New York astatine a proceeding that is scheduled for Tuesday.
Mangione has pleaded not blameworthy to charges helium faces successful Pennsylvania, including possession of an unlicensed gun, forgery and providing mendacious recognition to police.
According to his illustration connected his firm’s website, Marc Agnifilo has won acquittals successful galore of the country’s astir analyzable and hard trials.
Marc Agnifilo, lawyer for rapper and euphony shaper Sean "Diddy" Combs, speaks to the property aft his client's bail proceeding successful New York connected September 18, 2024. Combs volition stay imprisoned pending proceedings connected racketeering and enactment trafficking charges, aft a justice denied his entreaty September 18. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP)He worked antecedently arsenic a supervisor successful the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey. He besides worked antecedently arsenic a Manhattan adjunct territory attorney. At the Agnifilo Intrater firm, Agnifilo serves arsenic the pb proceedings counsel connected analyzable and superior transgression cases, investigations and fiscal regulatory matters.
Before requesting bail beryllium granted for his client, Agnfilio said that Combs was not adjusting good to a caller situation diet, saying that the nutrient "is astir apt the roughest portion of it."
The firm’s website said Friedman Agnifilo specializes successful interior investigations relating to misconduct, favoritism and intersexual assault.
The New York Daily News reported that the mates was antecedently connected opposing sides of the intersexual battle lawsuit involving International Monetary Fund manager Dominique Strauss-Kahn successful 2011.
Friedman Agnifilo was moving for the Manhattan District Attorney’s bureau astatine the time, which meant she would not person to recuse herself successful the matter, The New York Times reported. The New York Post reported, however, that Friedman Agnifilo was forced to recuse herself from respective of her husband's cases, including 1 against Harvey Weinstein.
“It’s ne'er been awkward,” Marc Agnifilo told the paper astir being portion of a two-lawyer household tied to high-profile cases. “We’re beauteous regimented astir it. If she’s recused from a case, we truly don’t speech astir it.”
