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Luigi Mangione Judge Married to Former Healthcare Executive

Magistrate Judge Katharine H. Parker, who is overseeing pre-trial hearings for Luigi Mangione, is married to a former Pfizer executive and holds hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock, including in healthcare companies and pharmaceutical companies, according to her 2023 financial disclosures.

The judge’s ties to the healthcare business are a stark reminder of how pervasive the for-profit industry is in American life — a point made by Mangione himself.

Parker’s husband, Bret Parker, left Pfizer in 2010, where he served as Vice President and assistant general counsel after holding the same titles at Wyeth, a pharmaceutical manufacturer purchased by Pfizer. According to Parker’s disclosures, her husband Bret still collects a pension from his time at Pfizer in the form of a Senior Executive Retirement Plan, or SERP.

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  • and in bad country, the hero who kills a mass murderer of scores of thousands gets a trial by a biased judge who made their money off the mass murderer's industry and it's never thought of as a conflict on interest.

  • Such a setup, God damn it.

    I'm not much for conspiracy theories but this is ridiculous.

    • I was never much for 'conspiracy theories' when I was young. Then all the plausible ones turned out to be true—decades later, freely admitted by the perpetrators. And all the absurd bullshit the government said was actually true, turned out to be bullshit!

      • US government backdooring every service you use? Confirmed.
      • Saddam pulled a bunch of Kuwaiti babies out of incubators? Lie!
      • The Gulf of Tonkin incident is made up a bullshit excuse to put American dick into Vietnam? Confirmed.
      • Weapons of mass destruction in the A X I S O F E V I L ? ? ? Lie!
      • The Dalai Lama is a fed? Confirmed.

      And let's not forget the "conspiracy theories" of Operation Paperclip, COINTELPRO, MKUltra, and others. Believing in those was crank shit when I was little. All true.

  • I love how people who must be new to America were claiming that oh jury nullification would happen, oh surely their defense attorney would be incompetent to not get at least one person fucked over by health insurance companies on the jury, etc, etc. Exhibit A. The judge is the arbiter of what is and isn't fair including in jury selection and this judge already knows what they want I'm sure. All they have to do in their mind is preside over proving he was the shooter and it wasn't someone else. Then throw the book at him, send him to the worst prison, have the DA and mayor hold a grinning press conference where friendly press asks a softball about the "small minority of extremists celebrating the shooter" to which they reply they're next and that the proles had better learn their place because the truncheon is out and they will not tolerate so much as online joke-threats against the precious C-suite class.

    Just more of business as usual two-tier justice system (bourgeoisie and their important servants and everyone else especially proles). Post SA threats against women? Against minor girls online? Sorry cops can't do anything internet isn't real, stop worrying about it even though they sent you pictures of your house and have been doing this for weeks in graphic detail. Post like one joke meme about a C-suite person who lives 3000 miles from you with a guillotine that they never even see? Warrant for no-knock raid signed immediately, terrorism charges prepared, dog shot dead, press announcement of no tolerance made about the raid by visibly angry and stern DA or cop.

    • it will be called Brian Thompson's Law. it will be challenged on 1st amendment grounds, after a particularly nasty no knock raid results in 2 suspects killed. at this point there will be dozens held on terrorism charges for merely calling for hypothetical "in minecraft" violence against CEOs. including a 70 year old social activist hippie grandmother and a 16 year old

      the supreme court will uphold it.

  • Mistrial

    Free Luigi

    Anyone looked into the cost to blast out infomercials to the New York City area regarding "jury nullification"? Rule one... you don't talk about it. Rule two... you don't fucking talk about it. Rule three... ok, so, here's a neat little folding pamphlet but really the TLDR here is "vote not guilty. Refuse to budge." EZ PZ, Luigi goes home, literally everyone points and Nelson-laughs at the CEO and cops

  • Same shit happened with Steven Donziger when he helped win a case against Chevron in the Amazon. He got a Chevron judge by some loophole because the normal judge wouldn't take the ridiculous case. Then he got put on house arrest for like 200x longer than the longest contempt of court punishment that had ever happened before because he wouldn't surrender his laptop for discovery that had his client's confidential files for a case that was against the prosecution.

  • But were there any judges available who didn't have a conflict?

    These kinds of people are all mixed up in each others business.

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