New York man charged with cyberstalking widow of slain UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson

A New York authorities antheral was arrested Wednesday for allegedly leaving threatening voicemails for the widow of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, hours aft helium was fatally shot connected a Manhattan sidewalk successful December.

The man, Shane Daley, near Paulette Thompson profanity-laced voicemails calling her hubby a "f------ capitalist pig" and declaring helium died due to the fact that helium was "profiting disconnected the backs of mediocre Americans," according to a criminal complaint successful Albany national tribunal charging Daley with cyberstalking.

"This s--- is gonna support happening to you f------ p-----," Daley, 40, warned Paulette successful 1 of 3 voicemails helium near connected her enactment telephone successful Minnesota the nighttime of Dec. 4, according to an FBI affidavit.

"You each merit to f------ dice and pain successful hell," Daley allegedly said successful different of those messages for Paulette that aforesaid night, the affidavit said.

Brian Thompson was killed that greeting arsenic helium was astir to locomotion into an capitalist league successful a midtown Manhattan hotel. Luigi Mangione, 27, has been charged with his execution successful some national and authorities courts successful New York.

On Dec. 7, Daley near a 4th voicemail connected Paulette's bureau enactment phone, according to the affidavit.

Paulette is not identified by sanction successful the affidavit.

But its statement of "Victim-1" makes wide she was the messages' recipient. The affidavit notes that successful 1 of the messages, Daley mockingly quoted a nationalist connection Paulette Thompson issued successful the aftermath of her husband's assassination.

The transcriptions of Daley's alleged voicemails besides diagnostic sexist connection and notation to the Thompsons' children.

Thompson's slaying generated nationalist sympathy for his family, but besides led to an outpouring of choler astatine U.S. wellness attraction companies, including UnitedHealthcare, which is simply a part of UnitedHealth Group.

Daley's calls "more than callous and cold-hearted," said Christopher Raia, adjunct manager successful complaint of the FBI's New York office.

"They were threatening and terrified a household already suffering pursuing the convulsive decease of their loved one," Raia said.

The affidavit said that investigators linked Daley to the messages due to the fact that his idiosyncratic cellphone fig was recorded by Paulette's institution leaving the 4 voicemails and making 5 different calls to her enactment line.

The FBI and different instrumentality enforcement officers connected July 30 stopped Daley adjacent his location and executed a hunt warrant to prehend his phone, the affidavit said.

The FBI cause who wrote the affidavit said that erstwhile helium talked to Daley that day, helium recognized his dependable arsenic the aforesaid 1 who near the threatening messages.

"When asked, Daley initially denied placing immoderate threatening and harassing calls," the cause wrote.

But erstwhile questioned astir "the December 2024 clip frame, Daley asserted that helium had been drinking during that play and conceded that it was imaginable helium made specified calls," the cause wrote. "Daley besides informed maine that helium was the sole idiosyncratic of the ... phone."

Daley, who lives successful the tiny Saratoga County municipality of Galway, was acceptable to beryllium arraigned astatine 2 p.m. ET by a magistrate justice successful Albany, the Justice Department said successful a press release.

His defence attorney, Samuel Breslin, declined to remark connected the case.

If convicted, Daley faces a maximum of 5 years successful situation and a good of up to $250,000, according to the Justice Department. Judges often present sentences acold beneath the maximum punishment aft taking into relationship factors including national sentencing guidelines.

"Daley, arsenic alleged, gleefully welcomed this calamity and did each that helium could to summation the Thompson family's symptom and suffering," said John Sarcone, the acting U.S. lawyer for the Northern District of New York, successful a connection Wednesday afternoon.

"My bureau and its partners volition present bash each that we tin to clasp him accountable for this vicious and outrageous conduct," Sarcone said.