Magistrate Judge Katharine H. Parker, who is overseeing pre-trial hearings for Luigi Mangione, is married to a former Pfizer executive and holds hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock, including in healthcare companies and pharmaceutical companies, according to her 2023 financial disclosures.
The judge’s ties to the healthcare business are a stark reminder of how pervasive the for-profit industry is in American life — a point made by Mangione himself.
Parker’s husband, Bret Parker, left Pfizer in 2010, where he served as Vice President and assistant general counsel after holding the same titles at Wyeth, a pharmaceutical manufacturer purchased by Pfizer. According to Parker’s disclosures, her husband Bret still collects a pension from his time at Pfizer in the form of a Senior Executive Retirement Plan, or SERP.
But were there any judges available who didn’t have a conflict?
These kinds of people are all mixed up in each others business.
Dictatorship of bourgeoisie on full display.
Sounds like a conflict of interest to me. Should she recuse himself?
I feel like I’m going to wake up tomorrow reading about Luigi being put in the mind prison for 23,000 years. They really do freak the fuck out when the victim is financially better off than the majority of the country.
John Brown caused the southern states to completely lose their minds.
I’m seeing parallels here.
Yup we’ll never be free without a revolution
reminds me of
Do all imperial puppet states get guards with a hard hat and raybans or is it just the ones with South in the name?
sunglasses are inherently bourgeois, only thing polpot was right about /s
Too bad his rich family disowned him. The country club was more important for nonna!
Same shit happened with Steven Donziger when he helped win a case against Chevron in the Amazon. He got a Chevron judge by some loophole because the normal judge wouldn’t take the ridiculous case. Then he got put on house arrest for like 200x longer than the longest contempt of court punishment that had ever happened before because he wouldn’t surrender his laptop for discovery that had his client’s confidential files for a case that was against the prosecution.
bro is gonna sentence luigi to disappear for eternity in the spacetime void the government has access to where time doesn’t exist but still moves infinity times slower than time on earth, and right before he hits the gavel he’s gonna say “this one’s for big dog thompson”
“I sentence you to be imprisoned for 20,000 years in the Phantom Zone square like General Zod”
I maintain that this guy kinda sucks but is probably iinnocent
How is this not a conflict of interest? Do I just not know what a conflict of interest is?
Let me help you out. A conflict of interest is when a poor person has a vested interest in an outcome and holds sway in the outcome. Key word is poor.
The loophole is probably the judge’s husband no longer works in the industy despite said husband owning several hundred thousand dollars worth of shares in healthcare and health insurance
I love how people who must be new to America were claiming that oh jury nullification would happen, oh surely their defense attorney would be incompetent to not get at least one person fucked over by health insurance companies on the jury, etc, etc. Exhibit A. The judge is the arbiter of what is and isn’t fair including in jury selection and this judge already knows what they want I’m sure. All they have to do in their mind is preside over proving he was the shooter and it wasn’t someone else. Then throw the book at him, send him to the worst prison, have the DA and mayor hold a grinning press conference where friendly press asks a softball about the “small minority of extremists celebrating the shooter” to which they reply they’re next and that the proles had better learn their place because the truncheon is out and they will not tolerate so much as online joke-threats against the precious C-suite class.
Just more of business as usual two-tier justice system (bourgeoisie and their important servants and everyone else especially proles). Post SA threats against women? Against minor girls online? Sorry cops can’t do anything internet isn’t real, stop worrying about it even though they sent you pictures of your house and have been doing this for weeks in graphic detail. Post like one joke meme about a C-suite person who lives 3000 miles from you with a guillotine that they never even see? Warrant for no-knock raid signed immediately, terrorism charges prepared, dog shot dead, press announcement of no tolerance made about the raid by visibly angry and stern DA or cop.
it will be called Brian Thompson’s Law. it will be challenged on 1st amendment grounds, after a particularly nasty no knock raid results in 2 suspects killed. at this point there will be dozens held on terrorism charges for merely calling for hypothetical “in minecraft” violence against CEOs. including a 70 year old social activist hippie grandmother and a 16 year old
the supreme court will uphold it.
Such a setup, God damn it.
I’m not much for conspiracy theories but this is ridiculous.
I was never much for ‘conspiracy theories’ when I was young. Then all the plausible ones turned out to be true—decades later, freely admitted by the perpetrators. And all the absurd bullshit the government said was actually true, turned out to be bullshit!
- US government backdooring every service you use? Confirmed.
- Saddam pulled a bunch of Kuwaiti babies out of incubators? Lie!
- The Gulf of Tonkin incident is made up a bullshit excuse to put American dick into Vietnam? Confirmed.
- Weapons of mass destruction in the A X I S O F E V I L ? ? ? Lie!
- The Dalai Lama is a fed? Confirmed.
And let’s not forget the “conspiracy theories” of Operation Paperclip, COINTELPRO, MKUltra, and others. Believing in those was crank shit when I was little. All true.
Every leftist conspiracy theory has turned out to be true. Every right wing one has turned out to be…. Right wingers actually doing it.
But these are just facts. Haha
Like @Cruxifux@feddit.nl implied, I meant the types of conspiracy theories Rightists like to waste their time on inventing every other minute so they don’t have to address the class issue.
A “fact” is what a conspiracy theory evolves into when the government admits it in a FOIA response
and in bad country, the hero who kills a mass murderer of scores of thousands gets a trial by a biased judge who made their money off the mass murderer’s industry and it’s never thought of as a conflict on interest.Mistrial
Free Luigi
Anyone looked into the cost to blast out infomercials to the New York City area regarding “jury nullification”? Rule one… you don’t talk about it. Rule two… you don’t fucking talk about it. Rule three… ok, so, here’s a neat little folding pamphlet but really the TLDR here is “vote not guilty. Refuse to budge.” EZ PZ, Luigi goes home, literally everyone points and Nelson-laughs at the CEO and cops
Folks, when they told me about healthcare executives being gunned down in the streets, I knew I needed to be the judge on the case. I only have one question for Mr. Mangione during the trial: Can you do my husband next?Tbf, the chance of this is like 99.9999999999%
