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I hope he's next. Fuck him and his backpacks.
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot outside Hilton hotel in Midtown in targeted attack: cops - Just Part and Parcel of visiting a Big City
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🔧 At about Midnight EST I am going to completely fuck up the site trying to fix something.
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*advocation, and you're using the word incorrectly.
It's okay though; we know you're a retarded bootlicking Bulgarian.
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Daily Beast article saying Reddit mods had to delete a thread about the killing because even Doctors were talking shit about the deceased: https://www.thedailybeast.com/leadi...care-ceos-murder-after-users-slam-his-record/
WEEKEND
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Imagine having the whole world laugh at your murder. That's rough bro.
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This dude was so hated that everyone from Reddit to Kiwi Farms agrees he had it coming
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His wife is only saying nice things about him because his money is hers now. Seperating without divorcing really paid off for her.
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For those that said that the share prices went up, that was only yesterday. Unitedhealth shares have gone down now by about 5%.
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‘Could this happen to us?’: UnitedHealth shooting prompts corporate security rethink
Financial Times (archive.ph)
By Oliver Barnes, Oliver Telling, Louis Ashworth, and Marianna Giusti
2024-12-05 21:28:02GMT
Financial Times (archive.ph)
By Oliver Barnes, Oliver Telling, Louis Ashworth, and Marianna Giusti
2024-12-05 21:28:02GMT
Large companies rushed to assess whether top employees have sufficient protection after the slaying of a US insurance executive in New York stoked broad concerns about corporate security.
Heads of security for groups on both sides of the Atlantic raced in the wake of Wednesday’s shooting to share intelligence and make inquiries with specialist companies on how to shield top executives, industry participants said.
The sudden focus on corporate security comes after Brian Thompson, the boss of UnitedHealth Group’s insurance unit, was fatally shot at dawn while walking alone to a corporate gathering in midtown Manhattan.
New York police on Thursday were engaged in a sweeping manhunt to find the suspect in the shooting, which authorities described as a “premeditated, targeted attack”. Bullet casings found at the scene were inscribed with the words “deny”, “defend” and “depose” — in a possible allusion to a book on insurers allegedly denying claims.
The attack against a high-profile American executive prompted dozens of security officials at major companies in the US and UK to convene a call on Wednesday as they sought to understand what risks they are exposed to and how to mitigate them, said Dave Komendat, a former security executive at Boeing and founder of consultancy DSKomendat Risk Management Services.
“Could this happen to us? What are we not doing today that we could be doing? These were the questions chief security officers are being asked by their boards,” Komendat said.
Brian Stephens, a former top Bank of America security official who now works at consultancy Teneo, added the shooting was “a very difficult wake-up call . . . a lot of security leaders in these organisations are getting attention on things that they were talking about for a while”.
Allied Universal, a large security company, received hundreds of calls from prospective and existing clients after Wednesday’s incident, Glen Kucera, the head of the group’s enhanced protection services, said.
UnitedHealth, a blue-chip company that provides healthcare and insurance services for tens of millions of Americans, did not disclose its spending on security in regulatory filings ahead of Wednesday’s incident.
Several people who have seen chief executive Andrew Witty at public events in the past year said he only had a small security detail. However, he is required to use corporate aircraft when travelling for business reasons as a security measure and was encouraged to use them on leisure trips. The Minnesota-based company did not respond to requests for comment on its security posture.
Kucera said it was not unusual that Thompson, a lower-level official than Witty, would lack a security detail, adding that many executives “walk around New York unprotected”.
However, personal security is adopted as default by executives in “controversial business”, such as social media, or by those with a major public profile “like Jamie Dimon from JPMorgan Chase”, he said.
He added: “An event like this certainly will make companies reconsider what they do to protect their executives.”
Many big businesses have significant budgets allocated to securing top executives, according to regulatory filings.
Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg is thought to be among the biggest recipients of security spending, with the social media group allocating more than $9mn on his personal security last year. It also provided a $14mn allowance for additional security costs “related to Mr Zuckerberg and his family’s personal security”. The company said this spending was in response to “specific threats”.
Pharmaceutical groups Pfizer and Moderna boosted their security spending following the pandemic, and their senior executives are accompanied by bodyguards at all public occasions, said people familiar with the matter. Last year, Pfizer spent almost $800,000 on security services for chief executive Albert Bourla.
Moderna authorised the provision of personal and home security to certain executives in 2020. In a filing, it said the decision had been taken “in response to the increased profile of our company and our executives as we pursued the development of a vaccine against Covid-19”.
Its latest regulatory filing disclosed $1.1mn in security spending for chief executive Stéphane Bancel, but none for its other executives.
Protests against controversial global events, such as the war in Gaza, have frequently targeted companies, another factor that helped drive increased demand for security over the past year, according to Jason Towse, head of business services at UK security group Mitie.
“As a result of the incidents in Israel, we’re providing services to senior executives in the UK who are from those areas,” he said. “People feel vulnerable.”
One chief executive in the defence sector, which has also come under criticism during the war in Gaza, said he recently moved house because his address was compromised. The executive added he wanted the business to obtain a higher public profile, but that was not possible because of the risks to him of greater exposure.
Last year, BlackRock more than tripled spending on home security for Larry Fink to almost $600,000 after the chief executive of the world’s biggest asset manager became a target for “anti-woke” activists. Some $217,000 is also spent on his bodyguards.
But no recent incidents have garnered as much attention as the killing of an executive in Manhattan. Towse said businesses would now be asking: “What security procedures do we have in place to mitigate this threat?”
Additional reporting by Josephine Cumbo and Ortenca Aliaj in London, Laura Pitel in Berlin and Joshua Franklin in New York
Heads of security for groups on both sides of the Atlantic raced in the wake of Wednesday’s shooting to share intelligence and make inquiries with specialist companies on how to shield top executives, industry participants said.
The sudden focus on corporate security comes after Brian Thompson, the boss of UnitedHealth Group’s insurance unit, was fatally shot at dawn while walking alone to a corporate gathering in midtown Manhattan.
New York police on Thursday were engaged in a sweeping manhunt to find the suspect in the shooting, which authorities described as a “premeditated, targeted attack”. Bullet casings found at the scene were inscribed with the words “deny”, “defend” and “depose” — in a possible allusion to a book on insurers allegedly denying claims.
The attack against a high-profile American executive prompted dozens of security officials at major companies in the US and UK to convene a call on Wednesday as they sought to understand what risks they are exposed to and how to mitigate them, said Dave Komendat, a former security executive at Boeing and founder of consultancy DSKomendat Risk Management Services.
“Could this happen to us? What are we not doing today that we could be doing? These were the questions chief security officers are being asked by their boards,” Komendat said.
Brian Stephens, a former top Bank of America security official who now works at consultancy Teneo, added the shooting was “a very difficult wake-up call . . . a lot of security leaders in these organisations are getting attention on things that they were talking about for a while”.
Allied Universal, a large security company, received hundreds of calls from prospective and existing clients after Wednesday’s incident, Glen Kucera, the head of the group’s enhanced protection services, said.
UnitedHealth, a blue-chip company that provides healthcare and insurance services for tens of millions of Americans, did not disclose its spending on security in regulatory filings ahead of Wednesday’s incident.
Several people who have seen chief executive Andrew Witty at public events in the past year said he only had a small security detail. However, he is required to use corporate aircraft when travelling for business reasons as a security measure and was encouraged to use them on leisure trips. The Minnesota-based company did not respond to requests for comment on its security posture.
Kucera said it was not unusual that Thompson, a lower-level official than Witty, would lack a security detail, adding that many executives “walk around New York unprotected”.
However, personal security is adopted as default by executives in “controversial business”, such as social media, or by those with a major public profile “like Jamie Dimon from JPMorgan Chase”, he said.
He added: “An event like this certainly will make companies reconsider what they do to protect their executives.”
Many big businesses have significant budgets allocated to securing top executives, according to regulatory filings.
Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg is thought to be among the biggest recipients of security spending, with the social media group allocating more than $9mn on his personal security last year. It also provided a $14mn allowance for additional security costs “related to Mr Zuckerberg and his family’s personal security”. The company said this spending was in response to “specific threats”.
Pharmaceutical groups Pfizer and Moderna boosted their security spending following the pandemic, and their senior executives are accompanied by bodyguards at all public occasions, said people familiar with the matter. Last year, Pfizer spent almost $800,000 on security services for chief executive Albert Bourla.
Moderna authorised the provision of personal and home security to certain executives in 2020. In a filing, it said the decision had been taken “in response to the increased profile of our company and our executives as we pursued the development of a vaccine against Covid-19”.
Its latest regulatory filing disclosed $1.1mn in security spending for chief executive Stéphane Bancel, but none for its other executives.
Protests against controversial global events, such as the war in Gaza, have frequently targeted companies, another factor that helped drive increased demand for security over the past year, according to Jason Towse, head of business services at UK security group Mitie.
“As a result of the incidents in Israel, we’re providing services to senior executives in the UK who are from those areas,” he said. “People feel vulnerable.”
One chief executive in the defence sector, which has also come under criticism during the war in Gaza, said he recently moved house because his address was compromised. The executive added he wanted the business to obtain a higher public profile, but that was not possible because of the risks to him of greater exposure.
Last year, BlackRock more than tripled spending on home security for Larry Fink to almost $600,000 after the chief executive of the world’s biggest asset manager became a target for “anti-woke” activists. Some $217,000 is also spent on his bodyguards.
But no recent incidents have garnered as much attention as the killing of an executive in Manhattan. Towse said businesses would now be asking: “What security procedures do we have in place to mitigate this threat?”
Additional reporting by Josephine Cumbo and Ortenca Aliaj in London, Laura Pitel in Berlin and Joshua Franklin in New York
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it's been amazing to see the wheat separated from the chaff with this, only people who haven't at least grinned and been like "now we _shouldn't_ celebrate something like this" and sorta trailed off were the glowest of the scumfucks I've ever suspected
the wife's IRL gig is insurance sales so she was horrified about this news and is very concerned for her safety, then she asked her boss if she can remote in since they already get death threats
he denied her request
but explained that she's a valuable employee
then she got an email about how the company is giving seventy five bucks in store credit for uniforms as a holiday present!
she's still concerned for her safety but is now mostly on-board with the killing itself
Jimjamflimflam
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Hoping he's caught just for the joker moment of him being driven away in the cop car as everyone cheers.
Not for the joker moment of getting his ass cheek split in prison.
Then he's freed on jury nullification
Not for the joker moment of getting his ass cheek split in prison.
Then he's freed on jury nullification
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All that surveillance, all those 3 letter agencies with billions in funding, all those backdoors and CCTV
And still, a good ol' assassin can get away with it. Holy shit.
And still, a good ol' assassin can get away with it. Holy shit.
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I hope these "online sleuth groups" (if they even exist) are being flooded by a deluge of deliberately unhelpful tips and malicious misinformation .
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He didn't marry her for her looks, but because she put up with his pizza habit. I heard of this exact thing happening in another case - super attractive rich guy with a homely wife, involved in lots of local community activities, and one day he was busted with the motherlode of CP in his house.
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Yes. It could.
Wisen up, corpos. You can try and game the system, but people can always file a counter claim according to section and paragraph 30.06.
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"online sleuth groups" aren't going to find fuck all without a much clearer photo of his face. Only then can it be put through face scanning shit online (assuming his photo is even out there)
If the police haven't even found anything besides 2-3 shitty, grainy CCTV images then no one is going to "crack the case", especially not some group of faggots from Reddit.
What I'm trying to find is the middle name of the CEO himself: His name is "Brian R Thompson" but so far can't understand what the R stands for (retard lol). I'm wondering if there might be more to his story than is currently known.
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I don’t believe that I said it doesn’t happen in socialized healthcare. In fact, it wouldn’t surprise me at all if it happens across all healthcare models. It’s not the model. It’s the evil demons running things.
Sneed's Feed n Seed
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Meme tax for the thread
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Press F to light a candle for Brian
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Federal agents online are notoriously pacifistic. They hate endorsing violent crimes and are constantly cautioning the communities they infiltrate to tone down any rhetoric that might have legal implications.
”Committing murder is BASED and anyone who disagrees is a BLUEPILLED CUCK!” Living up to your name, eh?
People actually thought this guy was the party of the working class