Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs The grandfather of suspected UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter Luigi Mangione was a friend of the Pelosi family, according to reports.Mangione, 26, was arrested on Monday and charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive Brian Thompson, who was fatally shot last week in New York City. He is expected to plead not guilty.Following the shooting, it emerged that Luigi Mangione is from a prominent Maryland real-estate family, with his grandfather, Nicholas Mangione, a self-made real-estate developer, owning country clubs, nursing homes and a radio station before he died in 2008, according to an obituary in The Baltimore Sun.The Mangiones are also longtime supporters of numerous local causes and institutions, including Loyola University Maryland and the Greater Baltimore Medical Center.Nicholas Mangione also had links to the family of the former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, who is from a prominent Italian American family in Baltimore.In 1995, Thomas J. D’Alesandro III, the former Baltimore mayor and late brother of Pelosi, discussed his relationship with Nicholas Mangione in the Sun.”Nick Mangione is foremost identified as a family man,” he told the newspaper. “That’s his calling card even before he became a successful businessman. He is maybe a little rough around the edges and maybe with an aggressive personality, but a man with a big heart (…) He earned his success the hard way.”
Suspect Luigi Mangione is taken into the Blair County Courthouse on Tuesday, December 10, 2024, in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. Mangione is from a prominent Maryland family with links to the Pelosi family.
Suspect Luigi Mangione is taken into the Blair County Courthouse on Tuesday, December 10, 2024, in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. Mangione is from a prominent Maryland family with links to the Pelosi family.
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It is unclear if Nancy Pelosi ever met Nicholas Mangione.Newsweek has contacted Nancy Pelosi for comment via email.Like the Pelosis, Nicholas Mangione had strong links to his Italian immigrant roots—something that he said fueled his business ventures. When he believed he faced discrimination at country clubs in the 1970s for being Italian, he decided to buy his own golf resort.”People thought I needed money from the mafia to buy this place,” Mangione once recalled to the Sun. “They asked me what family I belonged to. I told them: ‘I belong to the Mangione family. The Mangione family of Baltimore County.'”He later went on to purchase another golf resort, two country clubs and three conservative talk radio stations. “I didn’t have two nickels to rub together when my father died when I was 11, yet I still became a millionaire,” he told the Sun in 1995. “What other country can you do that in? None that I can think of.”When Nicholas Mangione passed away in 2008, he left a legacy that included 10 children, over 35 grandchildren, and a thriving portfolio of business ventures. And the family did well enough that they were able to establish a family philanthropic foundation which donated to the Greater Baltimore Medical Center and numerous other hospitals and healthcare institutions, as well as the Baltimore Opera Company and the Walters Art Museum.Greater Baltimore Medical Center has a hospital ward named after the Mangiones, the Baltimore Banner reported.But the story of the elder Mangione, who ascended from rags to riches, is now likely to be overshadowed by the story of his grandson, who could face the rest of his life behind bars after being charged with second-degree murder.On Monday night, a cousin, Nino Mangione, who is a Maryland state legislator, posted a statement on behalf of the family on X, formerly Twitter, saying that the family was “shocked and devastated” by Luigi Mangione’s arrest.”We only know what we have read in the media,” the statement read. “We offer our prayers to the family of Brian Thompson and we ask people to pray for all involved.”
