Luigi Mangione Granted Laptop in Jail to Prepare for CEO Murder Trial

A federal judge has granted accused CEO assassin Luigi Mangione‘s request to receive a laptop in jail, Us Weekly can exclusively reveal.

U.S. District Judge Margaret M. Garnett signed a court document on Monday, August 4, ordering the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, New York, to “provide Mr. Mangione with the laptop prepared by the Government, with access to it seven days a week from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm.”

Garnett’s approval comes three days after Mangione’s lawyers wrote her a letter seeking a personal computer for their client so he can “adequately prepare for trial and assist in his own defense.”

The attorneys, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, Marc Agnifilo and Jacob Kaplan, noted in their Friday, August 2, letter, also obtained by Us, that the laptop would be disabled from accessing the internet, printers and wireless networks in compliance with MDC regulations. Instead, Mangione would only be able to access case-related information provided by the government, including documents and videos.

Mangione, 27, was arrested in December 2024 in connection with the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson earlier that month in New York City. The Ivy League graduate faces four federal charges and 11 state charges, including murder, terrorism and stalking.

Mangione has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Federal prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office previously objected to Mangione’s request for a laptop, noting that he had access to shared desktop computers in jail. However, his lawyers argued that the case’s material was so voluminous — upwards of 7 terabytes — that he needed his own laptop.

The request was not entirely outlandish for MDC Brooklyn, as Mangione’s fellow inmate Sean “Diddy” Combs was given a laptop last year to prepare for his trial. (In July, the rapper was found guilty of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution but acquitted of more serious charges of sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy.)

Mangione and Diddy, 55, share not only a jail but also a lawyer; Agnifilo led the hip-hop mogul’s defense team.

“My role [in Mangione’s case] probably increased when the federal government got involved, and certainly when they charged him with a death-eligible offense. So we’re in this very much together,” Agnifilo said on the “Original Jurisdiction” podcast last month, referring to himself and his wife and co-counsel, Friedman Agnifilo.

“Karen spends a lot of time with Luigi at the MDC and on their equivalent of Zoom, called VTCs, and that’s a very important thing that she does, and she knows the facts of the Mangione case cold,” he continued. “Now that [Diddy’s] trial’s done, that’s probably the next big project.”