Federal prosecutors said no one from the state or federal government eavesdropped on a jailhouse phone conversation between Luigi Mangione and his lawyer.
  • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world
    188·
    11 days ago

    Prosecution: “We didn’t do it.”

    Defense: “Well, we have a recording of the call, and we sure didn’t record it.”

    Prosecution: “Uhhhh, there was a warning before the call that it would be recorded.”

    Defense: “Well, on the recording, no such warning exists…”

    Prosecution: “Ohhhh, that recording… Ummm, yeah, that was an intern, and they stopped listening as soon as they realized it was wrong. Pinky promise.”

  • Cruxifux@feddit.nl
    1421·
    11 days ago

    Man this dude just keeps getting hits to the system. This shit is spread wide open because one man decided not to be a fucking coward. He has put his life and freedom on the line. This is the definition of a hero.

    • EstonianGuy@lemm.eeEnglish
      41·
      11 days ago

      Humanity needs more Luigis for the cause of equality, the rampant capitalism has gotten way out of hand. It’s insane that 1% of the population owns 50% of the stock market.

      • Ænima@lemm.ee
        18·
        11 days ago

        It’s insane that 1% of the population owns 50% of the stock market.

        And actively uses that ownership to shut down any trading they don’t like and leverage the money they gain to buy up assets and change the stock market rules so they own even more. Give tRump time and we just might see more Luigi’s in the country, and they may include expansion to a political few as well!

        • 0x0@lemmy.zip
          3·
          10 days ago

          Give tRump time and we just might see more Luigi’s in the country,

          100 days not enough?

      • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
        55·
        11 days ago

        0.068% of the population owns 1.5% of the stock market… It’s the Norwegians with their pension fund!

        Funny how nationalization of natural resources and investing for the future can enrich a whole country instead of a few billionaires…

        • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
          61·
          11 days ago

          another huge problem with the stock market is when they privatized retirement you have no thought investment. Huge amounts of the market value is due to there being nothing else to do with the money. Most of the extreme wealthy can’t do anything with their money so they throw it in and then retirement can’t be used until retirement so its thrown in. Only a really small set of investors are analyzing companies for actual profit potential. Its why the whole thing is such a house of cards now.

    • Glytch@lemmy.world
      231·
      11 days ago

      I agree with you except that Luigi is innocent and being railroaded by the system. He’s a hero because he’s enduring cruel and unusual conditions and not letting it break him. The system needs him to be guilty because otherwise it becomes open season on CEOs, so they plan to publicly kill an innocent man.

  • pivot_root@lemmy.world
    69·
    11 days ago

    Well, which is it? It’s not Schrodinger’s eavesdrop. You either did it, or you didn’t. All this backpeddling just makes it sound like you definitely did but are trying to cover it up.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      51·
      11 days ago

      All this backpeddling just makes it sound like you definitely did but are trying to cover it up.

      Because that’s obviously the case. They not only admitted to doing it, they even sent the defense a recording that PROVES it.

      Rule 1 of getting away with illegal covert surveillance: don’t send the recordings to the victim.

  • Archangel@lemm.ee
    56·
    11 days ago

    So, I guess that means the federal prosecutor in charge recused himself for no reason, then?

  • ByteJunk@lemmy.world
    321·
    11 days ago

    To be honest, this sounds like the defense attorneys are setting up anything they can to muddy the procedures and greeting the case thrown out.

    Realistically, it’s probably the only way for this trial to have an outcome other than Luigi getting a death sentence, because that’s surely what the prosecution is going for…

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      25·
      11 days ago

      Except for the prosecutors voluntarily sending the recordings TO the defense.

      Apparently, they thought that breaking the law is allowed as long as you tell your victim afterwards 🤦

      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        10·
        11 days ago

        I swear, anything involved with this administration is like watching the Upper Class Twit Of The Year awards. Luigi’s prosecutors systematically fucking up like this is one of the few silver linings in this whole shitshow we find ourselves in; I, for one, will enjoy it, because it’s one of the few things I can genuinely laugh at these days.

      • Refurbished Refurbisher
        6·
        11 days ago

        They sent the recordings to the defense since that has to happen in order to be able to use evidence in court.