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.
Isn’t it fucked that they’re doing this for this guy just because he’s rich?
We are all created equal. Some are created more equal than others.
+1 for the Orwell reference
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.
Thanks for info
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.
Did you misread my question, or…?
Naw. They offer $5k for every fugitive and are involved in every case that crosses state lines.
Unless you mean the exactly 50k part, in which case they could just put him on the most wanted and make it 5 million because rich people. Hey, who knows, maybe they will.
Probably when it’s as important to them as thing given the reaction it got from the public
Yes, but also completely fucking unsurprising.
5X upgrade in bounty from $10K offered by crime stoppers. Investigation must be drying up. Probably be up to 6 figures by end of month
Time to hodl the info.
The longer it takes, the less likely they’ll find him no matter how much money they put up.
But I thought the NY mayor said they “know his name” [yahoo]. 🤔
Even if the FBI does catch this guy, the Feds are still gonna have a helluva time trying to cobble together an impartial jury, not to mention alternatives. One question will eliminate a large portion of the jury pool…
“Do you currentl, or previouslyhad UHC as a health insurer?”
I could see this case having a hung jury or even seeing jury nullification occur - though it’s highly unlikely for nullification to happen.
The Feds will put ungodly amounts of pressure to accept a plea deal.
Or they’ll make sure they don’t get him alive, like they did with Michael Reinoehl.
Ya, that is sadly the most likely outcome of all.
It’ll send a message to the masses that you won’t get your day in court for crimes against the ruling class, but you will still get a sentence… a bullet.
Hey NYPD, his last name is Ligma!
Right as the look a like contest was being held.
Nothing to see here, officer, move along.
Please move along sir!!!
Stop resisting!!!
They’d have better chances if they offered the former CEO’s one month’s pay.
I mean yeah. That’s the going rate to sell one’s soul.
If it was Elon Musk do you think they would still pretend he only made $1 as a salary?
I think they’d publicly wave around a vague concept hinting at the potential sum, then if the shooter was caught, they’d really come out and give a $1 reward to a whistleblower if only just to make a mockery of the concept.
Sounds about right. The peasants do what the rich want because the rich think everyone should do what they say and the peasants think they will get rewarded. Neither is true.
A $1 reward would just be the punchline.
Seems like they don’t want to find him. Good on them.
That doesn’t seem like it’s enough money to pay an enormous hospital bill.
Request denied.
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
We had to pay a $2500 fee for the ambulance because my spouse got hit-and-run by a car outside of the county that we live in.
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!
Only if your not denied (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
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.
If you are desperate for money, you could always shoplift at a corporate chain rather than turning on your fellow man.
(Edit: Not saying that you should shoplift, but its still better than turning in the perpetrator)
Preferably the one you hate the most. For example Tesco. In my country they as much as doubled the prices without their Clubcard, and they have these “discounts” on almost all products. I haven’t been there as a customer for quite a while. Most likely over a year or two.
But it’s also a bit personal.
They schedule inventories in the shop overlapping with the opening times. Now, this isn’t just the mistake of Tesco, but they do decide on the times. What I mean by in-shop is not in the warehouse, but actually where the customers are.
We are required to be accurate, sort the products on the shelves if there was a mess and face it. This is then checked by someone else. Facing needs to be done well, but slight inaccuracies in counts are accepted (1 or 2 items). Your speed is also measured, by the way.This is all OK, except that now there’s customers to fuck with it. They can take items, put them back, or just make a plain old mess. Plus you can’t guard all the shelves. Because of that, I was shocked when I was in Tesco like this for the first time. “If the customer takes something, ask them for barcodes and count of each item they’re taking, write those down on a piece of paper and report them to me.”
So… you’ll give me a piece of paper, right? RIGHT? (no.)Imagine that as a customer. Let’s say you take a few pens and are about to put them into your shopping cart, suddenly someone very much not from Tesco runs up to you “WAIT!! Can I see the items first? I need to write down the barcodes. Is this all you took? Ok. Um… do you… do you have some paper? No? Shit, please wait here, I’ll be right back! (One eternity passes) …”
THANKFULLY, I avoided that. There were only 2 parents who talked about having to buy some of those plastic book covers ASAP as the school year was just starting, but my scared and startled look, probably/hopefully looking like “Please don’t take those. Please…”, made them change their minds. I’ve heard one of them say something like “It’s busy here, let’s not bother them. We’ll try elsewhere.”
I assume this discouragers a lot of night-time customers. But I’ll be fair, Billa also schedules such inventories.
Society is offering $50,001 to shut the fuck up.
Ill not talk, wheres my $50,001?
You’ll get it in healthcare reimbursements after the other CEOs drop.
So like, 1% of his annual salary?
Not even close.
So like, 1% of his annual salary?
Not even that. He earned $10.2m/year. So $50k would be .49%. Don’t miss the decimal point there. $50k is slightly less than 1/2 of a percent of his annual salary.
If he never took PTO and worked 5 days a week and 8 hours a day for the entire year (admittedly, CEOs can frequently need to work more than than 40 hours a week) he would be earning $4903/hour. So this $50k bounty offer represents slightly more than 10 hours of what they pay the CEO in salary.
$4903/hour
Ok, this is a much better perspective. And he was “just” a millionaire, now what about billionaires…
And he was “just” a millionaire
This term “millionaire” being synonyms with “rich” really needs to be updated for 2024 with all of the inflation by now. A household that saved $1m by the time they retire at age 65 would technically be “millionaires”. That would give the household $81k/year. $81k/year to spend for a household in retirement isn’t bad, of course, but I don’t think anyone would look at that household and think that the couple living there would be considered “rich”.
now what about billionaires…
Now that one is absolutely still “rich” by every measure.
Not rich, but 81k/year is just under twice what I’m making right now ;-;
Then you’re making more than that millionaire household (remember thats at least two people), and that’s after they’ve spent their entire life working and saving.
You are twice as “rich” as those millionaires because you’re one person, and likely have decades more to earn increasingly higher salaries and save. For them, its over. That is the most amount of money they have for the rest of their lives. There’s no more income from salaries after retirement.
That’s crazy because while livable I wouldn’t call my financial situation super comfortable. Maybe if I wasn’t paying rent though
Housing costs don’t go away when you own a paid-off home. You still have to pay for property taxes and insurance in addition to the costs of upkeep on the home. This is part of the reason its so difficult to get ballot measures passed that rely on property taxes. Fixed income seniors aren’t getting any more money, and they are trying to make their money last for the remainder of their lives (with no idea when exactly they’ll die and it will be okay to be out of money).
They also get to watch their savings drop in value over time as inflation chips away at it.
All of this happens at a time of life when your medical costs are sky high from your body failing from age or treatment to continually treat chronic conditions.
Getting old isn’t for the faint of heart.
About $27k per minute for Musk.
The amount of grief and strife this man caused to countless families through the actions of his corporation are beyond calculation.
50k won’t even register.
Offer some Universal Healthcare maybe.
With all claims pre-denied? Hardly worth it.
