( Shocking ! /sarcasm )Discovered Connection Between Nancy Pelosi & Luigi Mangione Raises Questions In UnitedHealth CEO Murder Investigation

I would have to know more about the grandfather's ostensible "ties" with D'Allessandro in order to find them suspicious. The entire Italian-American community in Baltimore back in D'Allessandro's day knew one another, lived nearby to one another, had many children per marriage and consequently, as an ethnicity often discriminated against in those days, maintained many in-group social interrelationships (whose daughter married whose cousin, etc.) that were not necessarily involving business or shady dealings. So on its face, knowing each other socially proves nothing.

Second, I find it almost impossible to believe that, given how very well-established the Mangione family has become over the three or four generations of being well-off, upper middle class Americans, that they would throw one of their children to the wolves in such a hare-brained scheme. In the old days when families had seven or eight sons and many sons-in-law, perhaps they might sacrifice one in some vendetta; but this young man was the only son in his nuclear family and had an impeccable academic pedigree and valuable upper mainstream skills.

It's improbable that Luigi would have been enticed into a street-thug scenario by his family, where his uncle is a Maryland state lawmaker and a well-known, prominent conservative—even if there was Trump hatred by other uncles or aunts, the stakes and potential losses to them would be too high to risk pissing off Uncle Nino, a Maryland delegate to the state assembly.

Please discard any of your crime-movie preconceptions about today's 3rd and 4th generation Italian-Americans. They most probably won't hold up to scrutiny.

UnitedHealth CEO's Death: Brian Thompson, UnitedHealth CEO, was murdered shortly before he was set to testify in a DOJ case that could have implicated Nancy Pelosi in insider trading.

• Luigi Mangione's Role: Luigi Mangione, a tech-savvy scion of a wealthy Maryland family with historical ties to the D’Alesandro family (Nancy Pelosi), was arrested in connection with Thompson's death.

OK, this is weird...

I was named after my grandfather, Paolo Giuseppie Parinelli. While grandpa wasn’t connected, Uncle Nicky and Uncle Bobby were. We were the “legitimate” side of the family, but we had a pretty good idea of what was going on with the uncles.

All that to say there have been interesting coincidences that have benefitted me all of my life. I was recommended for a Federal Job by a family friend who I barely know, but who had connections. The Congress critter I went to work for was VERY connected to Italian organized crime. Later in life the company I worked for acquired certain clients who were in that circle.

All this to say it has been my experience that things “just happen” around organized crime families. There is rarely a direct connection, you won’t find anything written down, but stuff they want done, gets done. Good things happen to their friends, bad things happen to their adversaries.

As an aside, the Congress critter I used to work for went to Club Fed not long after I left his employ. Just another coincidence.

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