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.
Even low balling people on the fucking reward money. Cheap fucks.
We are all Robert Paulson.
Damn, $50,000 - Gov really don’t like the idea of someone being able to kill a rich person and getting away with it
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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 (we are a different company), 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 discourages a lot of night-time customers. But I’ll be fair, Billa also schedules such inventories.
I’m a broke bitch. And I had uhc insurance for around a year. They would deny almost any new prescription I would get for severe insomnia. They wanted to to pay like 400 bucks/month for belsomra. Even though i paid like 450/ month for said uhc coverage. I’ve had bcbs, bcbs of Oklahoma, kaiser and united and united was the worst by far. Bcbs is somewhat ok
If i saw or had info about the shooter, then no I didn’t. What guy? What gun? Nah fam my man’s tripped and fell on those bullets
Where did the FBI get that money? Oh I see.
I thought it was OK to Cross State Lines with Weapons? Or is it only OK if you Kill Poor Democrats?
they’re desperately fishing for info from homeless people. because $50K is a king’s ransom when you’re sitting on $0
they would be inundated with bogus “tips” if the reward were $5.00
all of this just demonstrates that they don’t have the first goddamn clue
How many pieces of silver is that?
Way more than 30, I know that much.
How many pieces, adjusted for inflation?
I was surprised to find a whole Wikipedia section dedicated to this but to answer your question, from $100 to $488 depending on the type of coin used according to today’s silver prices.
If I had information about the gunman, which I don’t, I’d be genuinely nervous about calling it in because then I’d become enemy #1 in America.
$50k isn’t going to keep me safe from the mob that wants to turn on whoever rats this guy out.
Also, I have a suspicion that a jury will be more sympathetic to the gunman than the CEO, so why risk my safety?
So 0.5% of his reported $10+ million annually compensation package.
Interesting that neither his colleagues nor family are chipping in to make this larger.
Why would they? That just eats into their profits. It doesn’t make them richer.
Yup. Dudes body was still warm on the pavement outside and they still had the conference like our was a normal Tuesday. The wealthy are disgusting people. Rotten all the way to the core. They actually think they are the reason society functions.
They are in for a rude awakening. Trump is going to destroy what ever remains of the middle and poor classes, and in response we are going to eat the rich.
50,000 dollars is how much the fbi thinks people to turn on each other for
The fbi is now on the case for a murder of a man on the street. They wouldn’t pull these resources for any other murder.
This is a joke.
But he was white and rich. The people who pull the strings can’t feel vulnerable.
How much for information related to literally any other unsolved murder in the US?
Can anyone give even a bad reason for a reward this high that doesn’t involve the wealth of the target? Just for the sake of it, I’ll take even the most tortured argument that doesn’t relate to the fact that he was a CEO.
How much for information related to literally any other unsolved murder in the US?
Actual answer, that isn’t a circle jerk? $5,000
But it can go up to 5 million for most wanted.
Can anyone give even a bad reason for a reward this high that doesn’t involve the wealth of the target?
The case is now extremely high-profile, so the longer it goes unsolved the more embarrassing it is for the agencies investigating. (Good.)
Easy. It makes other powerful people feel uncomfortable that this could happen to one of them.
They know they can get away without justifying this disproportional response.
So what’s the justification for the feds being involved? What other state is involved other than NY?
they lost track of him at a bus station so I guess they;re using that as a flimsy pretext to pass the investigation off from the famously incompetent NYPD.
The FBI isnt much better.
Agreed but they are the only manager the spooked elites could find to speak to.
Maybe the idea is that he moved out of state?
Don’t they get involved in pretty much any high profile crime if the local police force asks for their help?
FBI investigative authority includes federal crimes that cross state lines, public corruption, civil rights violations, and national security matters, among others. -per DDG.
I’m guessing their claim is it’s crossed state lines.
Nah, all CSAM incidents go straight to the FBI. It doesn’t need to be cross State lines
The comment you replied to was referring to this particular murder in that last sentence. If NYPD have some evidence that the shooter fled across state lines, that is likely the justification for the FBI to get involved .
So like, 1% of his annual salary?
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…
About $27k per minute for Musk.
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 more “rich” than 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.
