Summary
The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the gunman who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
The gunman, who arrived in New York City on November 24th, shot Thompson on December 4th outside a hotel hosting an investor conference.
Investigators believe the gunman, who concealed his identity with a mask, fled the city on a bus, leaving behind a backpack in Central Park.
you could use that $50k to pay for one night at the hospital that your insurance won’t cover!
Or a few months of the medication that works for you but insurance will only cover the shittier alternatives.
So they went from .02% to .14% of his yearly take 🤣. They must not care very much about finding this guy
Another way to look at it is them trying to pit everyone against each other. “How much money will it take to get the 99% to turn on one of their own?”
a $50,000 reward
So the cost of an asprin, a bandaid, and 3 jellybeans in a US hospital?
Doesn’t even include ambulance ride. City EMS is out of network for UHC
They’re gonna frog boil it and end up fucking it up.
100k from the start might have gotten someone to say something that would pay off.
But they’re being cheap and are going to slowly walk it up as I go gets less and less useful and a movement if not giving a fuck grows.
Only if your not denied (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
Hey, nobody ever claimed the FBI was good at doing its job.
Woah, the FBI is amazing at causing controversies, such as violating civil rights, unnecessary shoot outs, politicized investigations, and more!
This wont even pay for most surgeries that UHC denies regularly.
Can someone give context, is this the same reward that’s given for the other about 800 murders that happen each year in New York or is that guy getting special rich guy privileges beyond his death?
I just checked the NYPD’s most wanted list:
- Of the 33 posted photos, 31 of them are black men, 1 is a white man, 1 is a car.
- The maximum payout on all of them is $3,500
… Please feel free to draw your own conclusions about this CEO manhunt.
Very first thought I had.
What do you think?
omw to tell them I saw the dude on TV for my 50k
I found him! I found Jesus behind the couch. Oh you were looking for Pete? Don’t know man. Try taco bell. He might be getting a chalupa right now as we speak.
I thought it was OK to Cross State Lines with Weapons? Or is it only OK if you Kill Poor Democrats?
I watched videos of the FBI and their technology, but apparently all it takes to avoid them is to leave your phone behind, cycle with monopoly money and wear common inconspicuous clothing that covers you up? The fuck happened
Leaving your phone behind is a real killer for them
Duly noted, will not say anything incriminating here that the jandarma could catch but…
It turns out most if not all of the advanced policing technology that gets touted is, you know, lies. They just want you to believe you can’t get away with it. Just look at how many godawful propaganda CSI shows there are - how often do they rely on magic databases containing the location of every flower shop cross referenced by geolocation and joined to the magic database of endangered beetle habitat? That’s a real example btw, bones is a terrible show.
Having worked with the police, the #1 way to get away with a crime is to just not tell anyone you did it. That’s it, that’s the whole secret.
What’s this about monopoly money?
They supposedly found his backpack and it had a bunch of monopoly money in it lmao
I have information.
It’s all untrue, I just want $50k.
It’s still information, tho.
Even low balling people on the fucking reward money. Cheap fucks.
The fbi is now on the case for a murder of a man on the street. They wouldn’t pull these resources for any other murder.
This is a joke.
But he was white and rich. The people who pull the strings can’t feel vulnerable.
If I was rich I would counter offer 55k to not squeal.
I didn’t squeal, and I can prove it. I haven’t even been in contact with the FBI! Now pay up.
Besides the obvious issue above, I’m also pretty sure that it would be obstruction of justice.
ME: Obstruct Deez Nuts, your honor.
JUDGE: “Fuck this guys good, NOT GUILTY!”
Isn’t it fucked that they’re doing this for this guy just because he’s rich?
They’re doing it because the guy on the run crossed state lines. That makes it federal, so the FBI has jurisdiction and it’s easier for them to work cross-border than the NYPD. It’s getting more resources because it’s a highly publicized case. I’m sure there’s some pressure from some wealthy and/or powerful people as well to find whoever did it, but it’s not surprising that the FBI is involved now.
And surely they offer $50k every time they believe a murder suspect has crossed state lines, right? Every single time?
They offer money for a lot of cases, yes. Up to 5 million for most wanted.
Probably when it’s as important to them as thing given the reaction it got from the public
We are all created equal. Some are created more equal than others.
+1 for the Orwell reference
Yes, but also completely fucking unsurprising.
Maybe someone will talk when they offer better insurance coverage.
Also, many times reward money isn’t paid due to ‘reasons’, like “yeah you gave legid info which led to the arrest, but we got the same information through other channels too”. You get your reward money rejected like it’s your insurance claim.
