Brian Thompson Assassination. Cui Bono?
I have held off on this one because I didn’t think I had much to offer. Evil Insurance CEO gets whacked. It looks like a hit. My initial reaction was what took so long?. Not that I condone this but for over 20 years we have had hundreds if not thousands of mass shootings targeting school kids, shoppers, those attending churches, temples, mosques , etc while the Bad Guys are left alone.
So I was thinking that like with Trumps assassination attempt this one was staged in some manner. Not that it didn’t happen since clearly it did, but someone had something to gain.
Now we know who did it. Luigi Mangione. Although I must say he doesn’t look like the guy at the Hostel, but lets leave that alone for now. Rich kid hurts back has surgery and resorts to psychedelics and magic mushrooms while dropping off the radar,
Its unclear where the information came about his using psychedelics and magic mushrooms. Is this a plant to make us think he was a MKULTA project?
It was also reported that he had some comments on Ted Kaczynski Maifesto . Kaczynski was also connected with MKULTRA. Mangione allegedly "disapproved" of Kaczynski’s actions "but was fascinated by his ideology, and shared his concerns about rampant consumerism gradually eroding our agency and alienating us from ourselves.”
In January 2024 Mangione's account posted a Goodreads review of Industrial Society and Its Future, describing Kaczynski as "rightfully imprisoned" and was critical of his use of violence against innocent individuals. The review (which gave the manifesto four out of five stars) also said that :
"'Violence never solved anything' is a statement uttered by cowards and predators" and that "when all other forms of communication fail, violence is necessary to survive."
So this is interesting but takes us nowhere. Why does a young rich kid care about medical claims being denied, enough so to risk throwing his life away, to kill a rich CEO nobody has heard of even if we know the company name. It makes no sense.
The kid (anyone under 50 is a kid to me) is clearly educated and intelligent but an issue he cares so much about is worth 260 handwritten words? Come on man.
And whats with the 3D gun?. I have to imagine buying a 3D Printer and downloading manuals to make a gun gets the attention of the Feds pretty quick. I suppose this means he hoped to get away with the killing but if so why hang around next door (PA) to the kill zone for 10 days. Rent a car under your own name after changing clothes and drive to Florida or just return to wherever you were living and lay low. You dont eat out in McDonalds wearing the same clothes still carrying that Fake ID, Gun and your Manifesto. This makes no sense unless you want to be caught.
I suppose he just went crazy for some reason, or maybe he was MKULTRA’ed
or maybe he was just outraged by injustice and decided to be a hero. All Heroes must have a little crazy in them to sacrifice themselves for others.
Could he have been caught doing something that was terrible enough that he could have been forced to kill this guy and get caught in exchange for burying it. Perhaps promised to live out the rest of his life on the same Islands as Epstein is living now😀. After all, how do we really know these guys die or serve out their time in prison and don’t get sent to some paradise as a reward for a job well done.
I have no answers. So this is pretty much a dead end. But lets consider the possibility that this shooting serves some larger purpose that benefits somebody. What could it be?
Who benefits from a Top CEO being assassinated and the subsequent Psychological Operations (aka news coverage)
Psychological operations to effect change and gain support for policies or ideas involve Make It Happen or Let it Happen Events or Operations (LIHE) ot MIHE) but also happens after Shit Just Happens Events (SJHE).
Thompsons murder by Luigini may just follow into SJHE. Opportunism by Security Companies working with MSM
who saw an opportunity for a ratings boost following the post-Election doldrums and Holiday Season where people seek entertainment over news. A mystery killer of a CEO of a hated Insurance Company was perfect
But we should always consider alternatives to Shit Happens.
Now back to “Who gains”
Obviously, Security Companies many of whom employ retired Secret Service Employees. You would think Corporate CEO’s making millions of dollars a year because they deliver so much value to the company would have private security
Less than a quarter of S&P 500 companies provided home or personal security as a financial perk to their CEO in 2023, according to WTW, a risk management consultancy. Only 16 percent provided such services to top executives other than the CEO.
Such disclosures only concern security outside the workplace.
Thompson, for instance, was also a top executive of UnitedHealthcare’s parent corporation, UnitedHealth Group, and received pay valued at $10.2 million last year. The company didn’t report paying any fees for personal security for its executives — benefits that have to be disclosed if they exceed $10,000 — in securities filings going back to 2018.
Some security consultants said that having a professional protecting Thompson might have made a difference, pointing out that they might have taken a more circuitous route to the hotel or swept the area beforehand to see if anyone was loitering.
“If there was a detail on the gentleman, I think it certainly could have been avoided,” said A.J. Caro, CEO of Arrow Security, which provides security guard services to hospitals, schools and various businesses.
And here
In the wake of the shooting, corporations are taking a second look at their security approaches. Kucera said that, historically, relatively few large companies looked to executive protection directly. Allied Universal, he said, works with about 80% of Fortune 500 companies, and just a fraction of them hired security details for top executives.
However, in the days since Thompson’s death, five Fortune 500 companies have reached out about beefing up the protection for their leadership.
Kucera said there’s going to be the immediate reaction in the wake of the shooting: for example, seeking a security detail for a CEO traveling this week. But he expects that companies will also be weighing such protections in the long term.
“It will become more common,” he said.
Thompson did not have security with him at the time of the shooting and was alone when he was killed.
So, we have a Motive it seems.
So this leads me to who are the companies providing Security Services? Actually, for the sake of brevity lets just focus on the biggest one.
Did you know the 3rd largest private employer in the US behind Amazon and Wal-Mart is a security company?
Allied Universal with over 300,000 employees in US (800,000 world wide) and annual revenue is more than $20 billion.
Who owns them? They are not a public company so its a bit opaque. However, from Wikipedia
In December, 2019 majority owner Wendel sold most of its stake in Allied Universal to a Canadian pension fund Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), and a new investment group led by investment company Warburg Pincus and an affiliate of the investment company J. Safra Group.
Warburgs
Warburg company structured as a global partnership led by Chairman, Timothy Geithner, CEO, Charles R. "Chip" Kaye, and President, Jeffrey Perlma
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Geithner
President of the New York Fed and Secretary of the Treasury, Geithner had a key role in government efforts to recover from the financial crisis of 2007–08 and the Great Recession. At the New York Fed, Geithner helped manage crises involving Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and the American International Group; as Treasury Secretary (2009-2013), he oversaw allocation of $350 billion under the Troubled Asset Relief Program, enacted during the previous administration in response to the subprime mortgage crisis.
Safra
1996 article entitled, “The Money Plane,” published by New York Magazine detailed how the “Russian mob gets a shipment of up to a billion dollars in fresh $100 bills,” Edmond Safra’s bank, Republic National, was directly implicated.
After reporting that the Russian mob had long been using “an unimpeded supply of freshly minted Federal Reserve notes to finance a vast and growing international crime syndicate,” the author of the article, Robert Friedman, asked the obvious question, “So then why are Republic National Bank and the U.S. Federal Reserve continuing to supply millions of crisp, clean $100 bills to banks that so many money-laundering experts agree are tainted?”
And that’s a great question especially since the article went on to quote an official from the office behind regulating Republic National Bank, the Comptroller of the Currency, who stated that the U.S. government “sees nothing wrong with it.”
Browder tells how Steinmetz introduced him to the Lebanese-Brazilian Jewish banking billionaire Edmond Safra, who invests and becomes not just a partner but also a mentor and friend.
Born in Beirut in 1932, Safra was one of the most successful bankers of the 20th century. The scion of a Jewish banking family originating from Aleppo, Syria
In 1966 he opened Republic National Bank of New York, a retail bank in the heart of Manhattan that grew to be the 11th largest bank in the United States.
Browder and Edmond Safra (1932–1999) founded Hermitage Capital Management in 1996 for the purpose of investing initial seed capital of $25 million in Russia during the period of the mass privatization after the fall of the Soviet Union. Beny Steinmetz was another of the original investors in Hermitage, the Israeli diamond billionaire.
Browder hired a former Israeli Mossad agent, Ariel, to set up his security operation, manned mainly by Israelis. Over time, Browder and Ariel become close. How did that connection come about? Was it through Maxwell?
Safra is also internationally renowned as the dean of Sephardi Jewish philanthropy; the main backer of Israel’s Shas party, the Sephardi Torah Guardians, and of New York’s Holocaust memorial museum, and a megadonor to Yeshiva University, Hebrew University, the Weizmann Institute and much more.
Safra lost $1 billion in Russia during the 1998 Long-Term Capital Management crisis over Russian bonds and investments which was why he put his bank, Republic National Bank, up for sale to HSBC in 1999.
1999-Republican National Bank was owned by Israeli Safra who was a Browder investor in Hermitage and flew 40 billion in USD to Russia in the 90’s
On May 11, HSBC, one of the most corrupt financial institutions of our time, announced a $10.3 billion deal to purchase Edmond Safra’s holdings including the Republic National Bank of New York and Safra’s shares in Bill Browder’s firm, Hermitage Capital. The announcement came only nine months after Russia’s economy collapsed and Browder’s clients, lost over $900 million. It was also nine months after $4.8 billion in IMF funds was deposited in an undisclosed account at Safra’s bank and well before the public became aware that that same money was dispersed and stolen through the Bank of New York, off-shore companies, and foreign financial institutions.
1999 December 3 Safra was killed in suspicious fire that broke out in his Monte Carlo home. Although some believe that Safra was killed by the Russian mafia, Lurie reported that a Swiss prosecutor investigating the missing IMF money believed that Safra was killed “because of his revelations to the FBI and the Swiss Prosecutor’s Office investigating the disappearance and laundering of $4.8 billion of the IMF stablilization loan.” One of the more interesting things to note here is that the prosecutor implied that Safra not only spoke with the FBI about the missing IMF funds but with Swiss authorities as well.
Funny how Browders bosses/partners get killed. He also worked for Robert Maxwell when he was killed in 1991
I thought all that is interesting but it doesn’t get us much further
So I look at some recent acquisitions. It seems the Security Industry is rapidly consolidating.
In 2021 Allied acquired G4S plc. This is a British Security Company whose roots trace back to Wackenhut
G4S Secure Solutions (USA) is an American/British-based security services company, and a subsidiary of G4S plc. It was founded as The Wackenhut Corporation in 1954, in Coral Gables, Florida, by George Wackenhut and three partners (all former FBIagents). In 2002, the company was acquired for $570 million by Danish corporation Group 4 Falck (itself then merged to form British company G4S in 2004). In 2010, G4S Wackenhut changed its name to G4S Secure Solutions (USA) to reflect the new business mode
Whats Wackenhut?
1954- a private detective agency, founded in 1954 by former FBI man George Wackenhut, taking over the Cabazon Indian reservation in Indio, CA.
1965, Wackenhut was boasting to potential investors that the company maintained files on 2.5 million suspected dissidents – one in 46 American adults then living. Richard Babayan, claiming to be a CIA contract employee, said “Wackenhut has been used by the CIA and other intelligence agencies for years. When they [the CIA] need cover, Wackenhut is there to provide it for them.”
1966 -Wackenhut acquired the files of a former HUAC staffer, making it the owner of the largest privately held file on alleged American dissidents, with over 4 million names. Stewart Brand was hosting his multi-media show, America Needs Indians. It was also the year that the Freedom of Information Act was legislated. That year the FBI and CIA began operating CHAOS and COINTELPRO simultaneously in the US.
1981, Berckmans joined with other senior Wackenhut executives to form the company’s Special Projects Division. It was this division that linked up with ex-CIA man Dr. John Phillip Nichols, the Cabazon tribal administrator, in pursuit of a scheme to manufacture explosives, poison gas and biological weapons for export to the Contras and other communist fighting rebels worldwide.
William Corbett, a terrorism expert who spent 18 years as a CIA analyst said “For years Wackenhut has been involved with the CIA and other intelligence organizations, including the DEA. Wackenhut would allow the CIA to occupy positions within the company [in order to carry out] clandestine operations.” Additionally, Corbett said that Wackenhut supplied intelligence agencies with information, and it was compensated for this – “in a quid pro quo arrangement” – with government contracts worth billions of dollars over the years.
1981- Reagan was elected president of the United States in November 1980, and took office in January 1981, almost six months before the Alvarez, Boger, Castro triple homicide occurred. With all resistance eliminated at the Cabazon reservation, it marked the beginning of government exploitation of the tiny band of Indians when “outside management” in the form of Cabazon tribal administrator John Philip Nichols formed a joint venture with Wackenhut International, a Florida-based security firm run by former FBI, CIA, NSA and military officials. Police reports indicate that Nichols previously did business in Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Panama, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Mexico, Chile, Brazil, the Netherlands, England, Canada, France, Spain, Japan, Korea and Taiwan.
When Nichols was hired in 1978, he wrote himself a 10-year contract with the Cabazon tribe that gave him 50 percent of the profits of any business he brought to the reservation. In the summer of 1980 and during the next three years, Nichols embarked on a series of international security and military ventures to provide security for Crown Prince Fahd’s Saudi Arabia palace, proposals to manufacture 120mm combustible cartridge cases on the reservation and in Latin America, along with 9mm machine pistols, laser-sighted assault weapons, sniper rifles and portable rocket systems. At one point he even sought a contract to develop biological weapons on the reservation.
Riconosciuto served as Director of Research for the Wackenhut facility at the Cabazon Indian reservation in Indio, California. In 1983-84 . He modified the PROMIS computer software to be used in law enforcement and intelligence agencies worldwide. A man named Earl Brian was spearheading a plan for worldwide use of the software, but essentially, the modified software was being pirated from the owners, Bill and Nancy Hamilton.”
Earl Brian was a businessman and Edwin Meese crony who served in Governor Ronald Reagan’s cabinet in California. The $6 million in software stolen from William and Nancy Hamilton, co-owners of Inslaw Company, was allegedly sold by the Justice Department through Earl Brian to raise off-the-books money for covert government operations
Riconosciuto signed an affidavit for the Hamiltons in 1991 stating that he had been responsible for the modification. The House Judiciary Committee on Inslaw was investigating the theft of the software and He was afraid He would be implicated since He had performed the modification. Eight days later, in an attempt to discredit my testimony, He was arrested for allegedly operating a drug lab.”
I Michael J. Riconosciuto, being duly sworn, do hereby state as follows:
(1) During the early 1980’s, I served as the Director of Research for a joint venture between the Wackenhut Corporation of Coral Gables, Florida, and the Cabazon Band of Indians of Indio, California. The joint venture was located on the Cabazon reservation.
(2) The Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture sought to develop and/or manufacture certain materials that are used in military and national security operations, including night vision goggles, machine guns, fuel-air explosives, and biological and chemical warfare weapons.
(3) The Cabazon Band of Indians are a sovereign nation. The sovereign immunity that is accorded the Cabazons as a consequence of this fact made it feasible to pursue on the reservation the development and/or manufacture of materials whose development or manufacture would be subject to stringent controls off the reservation. As a minority group, the Cabazon Indians also provided the Wackenhut Corporation with an enhanced ability to obtain federal contracts through the 8A Set Aside Program, and in connection with Government-owned contractor-operated (GOCO) facilities.
(4) The Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture was intended to support the needs of a number of foreign governments and forces, including forces and governments in Central America and the Middle East. The Contras in Nicaragua represented one of the most important priorities for the joint venture.
(5) The Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture maintained close liaison with certain elements of the United States Government, including representatives of intelligence, military and law enforcement agencies.
(6) Among the frequent visitors to the Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture were Peter Videnieks of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., and a close associate of Videnieks by the name of Earl W. Brian. Brian is a private businessman who lives in Maryland and who has maintained close ties with the U.S. intelligence community for many years.
(7) In connection with my work for Wackenhut, I engaged in some software development and modification work in 1983 and 1984 on the proprietary PROMIS computer software product. The copy of PROMIS on which I worked came from the U.S. Department of Justice. Earl W. Brian made it available to me through Wackenhut after acquiring it from Peter Videnieks, who was then a Department of Justice contracting official with responsibility for the PROMIS software. I performed the modifications to PROMIS in Indio, California; Silver Spring, Maryland; and Miami, Florida.
(8) The purpose of the PROMIS software modifications that I made in 1983 and 1984 was to support a plan for the implementation of PROMIS in law enforcement and intelligence agencies worldwide. Earl W. Brian was spearheading the plan for this worldwide use of the PROMIS computer software.
The main role of the Wackenhut-Cabazon Joint Venture was connected to government-sanctioned drug trafficking and money laundering by organized crime groups like the Gambino Family and groups like the Contras, and that Riconoscuito’s job was to help these groups avail themselves of NSA’s bank surveillance version of PROMIS to launder the proceeds from the drug sales.”
Its a long story, thats just part of it but it doesnt take us anywhere except to make Allied Universal quite interesting to me.
Then I find this
A startling assassination attempt on former President Trump shook the nation. Our Allied Universal team at Butler Memorial was there
https://www.instagram.com/allieduniversal/p/C-A5JRQtIIb/
Ok, so it was only at the hospital. 😀
Well, at least we have a motive and some interesting connections.
But in my search I found United Health Care was also a victim of a cybersecurity attack in February. Cost them billions.
On February 21, 2024, the company was hit by a cyberattack that prevented payouts to doctors on the platform. As a result of the attack, electronic payments and medical claims could not be processed by UnitedHealth Group, leading to widespread disruption.[
Patients were forced to pay for many of their medications out of pocket instead of using medication coupons or copays. Many healthcare providers claimed to lose significant revenue as a result of the disruption, up to $100 million per day, threatening many with insolvency. As a result of the cyberattack, HHS opened a civil rights investigation with regards to patient privacy concerns.
On February 22, 2024, UnitedHealth Group filed a notice to the Securities and Exchange Commission stating that a "suspected nation-state associated cybersecurity threat actor" gained access to Change Healthcare's information technology system. Following UnitedHealth Group's initial filing, CVS Health, Walgreens, Publix, GoodRX, and BlueCross BlueShield of Montana reported disruptions in insurance claims. The cyberattack affected family-owned pharmacies and military pharmacies, including Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton.Healthcare company athenahealth was affected, according to Forbes.
On February 29, 2024, UnitedHealth Group confirmed that the ransomware attack was "perpetrated by a cybercrime threat actor who...represented itself to [the company] as ALPHV/Blackcat." In the same update, the company stated that it was "working closely with law enforcement and leading third-party consultants, Mandiant and Palo Alto Networks" to address the matter.
On March 4, 2024, Reuters reported that a bitcoin payment equivalent to nearly USD $22 million had been made to a cryptocurrency wallet "associated with ALPHV". United Health did not comment on the payment, instead stating that the organization was "focused on the investigation and the recovery." On the same day, a Wired reporter stated that the transaction looked "very much like a large ransom payment."
As of March 18, 2024, UnitedHealth Group had advanced payments of over $2 billion in assistance to health care providers affected by the cybersecurity attack. In addition, some services had been restored including Change Healthcare’s payment processing platform and pharmacy network.
Tough year for United Health Care. I guess they will be interested in upgrading Cybersecurity. Allied Universal can help there too.
Conclusion- Motive alone is not sufficient to determine a Conspiracy was at play here so I am sticking with Shit Just Happened. But Why?
What’s most relevant here is that Luigi Mangione identified a real villain: a parasitic, greedy, and psychopathic health insurance industry that does not exist as it does here in any other developed country in the world.
And based on social media Luigi Mangione has become somewhat of a hero
This is not the first time. Going back to Hoovers Great Depression which he made worse by increasing Tarrifs the Banks became the bad guys as Hartmann describes
As a result of the crimes of the banks, that era had its own versions of Robin Hood, and they were the bank robbers.
Americans followed with bated breath the robberies, murders, and police pursuits of John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, Bonny and Clyde, and Ma Barker’s Barker-Karpis Gang, among others. They were that generation’s heroic anti-heroes, the ones who were “making the evil banksters pay” with both money and blood.
The public was fascinated. Bank robbers filled the newspapers, magazines, and radio. Books were written about them and, later, movies made about them. Many hero-worshiped them.
But other than the Health Care Industry, Americans seem pretty ignorant of of the larger Corporate and Political web that is inflicting great financial and social harm on them. That may change soon though.
The Conservative Revolution known as MAGA will soon bring the Middle Class and Poor to their knees. Again from Hartmann
The simple reality is that while Trump is a revolutionary, he’s promoting a revolution that will exclusively benefit the corrupt and the morbidly rich. He’ll make things worse for average people, just like he did last time; just like George W. Bush did, and Ronald Reagan did.
All three had severe recessions, each kicked off by tax cuts, just like Reagan’s recession after his tax cuts. Clinton, Obama, and Biden — eschewing tax cuts and instead raising taxes on the rich — never had a recession.
But Donald Trump will go big on shoveling government money to billionaires and thus bring our economy to its knees.
Unemployment and inflation will both explode while billionaires and massive monopolies will make off with another $7 trillion like during his last administration. Only this time there wont be any stimulus checks, PPP or extended Unemployment Benefits for Americans
Maybe then CEOs in other Industries will pony up and make the Security Industry even richer with a demand for Private Security. Maybe the Government will pay for it as some sort of a Public Private Partnership arrangement by using an upgraded and enhanced Secret Service built up following Trumps Assassination Attempt. Perhaps it will even be Privatized to compete with or even merge with Allied Universal.
Who knows?
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