CNN: Suspected CEO Killer Suggests $8,000 Found in His Bag Is Planted and His Bag Is Waterproof

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>> Erin.
>> Well, I‘ll say just about an hour ago, I was there inside that courthouse, watching as luigi mangione walked right past myself and a number of other reporters. He was wearing a blue shirt, blue jeans. He was, of course, handcuffed, and he looked, even in this court appearance visibly distressed. But he kept his brow furrowed through the duration of this arraignment hearing. And I should say what was interesting, though, erin, as you said, we haven‘t heard a statement from the suspect. He did actually speak inside of that courtroom to the judge and to all the folks who were in there. But it was on very selective issues and I‘ll just kind of go through what we heard. The judge asked luigi mangione a number of questions first, about his identity so Mr. Mangione confirmed that that is his real name. He initially said that his residence was in Maryland, but then the judge actually pressed him on that. And then he said, actually, I have lived at various addresses before then ultimately giving an address in honolulu Hawaii. Then he also said that he has worked for three years as a data engineer up until about a year ago, and he also told the judge that he has no drug or mental health problems, that the court needs to know about. But one of the most interesting parts of that particular hearing was actually his statements after the conversation about bail, the prosecutors basically stepped up there and made the case. Why they believe that this man should be held without bail. They mentioned that he is awaiting potentially an arrest warrant coming from New York City as one of the major reasons. But they also said that prosecutors noted that they found him with $8,000 in U.S. cash, $2,000 in foreign currency his passport, and also a faraday bag, which is basically a bag designed to stop transmission of cell service or other sort of things, like that. At the end of his speech, the prosecutor‘s speech luigi mangione said, I actually want to address two of the things that you said. He said I don‘t know where that money came from. I‘m not sure if it was planted. And then he also said that that bag was waterproof and the term that the prosecutors used when discussing the faraday bag, the ghost guns, the 3-d printed silencer was the prosecutors used a phrase saying this is criminal sophistication luigi mangione said, I don‘t know about any of this criminal sophistication. When addressing that, but it‘s just interesting, Aaron, that of all of the things that were mentioned in that court appearance the two that he noted or took issue with was the currency. And then that bag, erin.
>> Very I mean quite fascinating, especially insofar as we know that the backpack found in Central Park had monopoly money in it all right, danny, thank you very much and, danny, as we said, just an hour ago, was there as luigi mangione walked by for his arraignment in Pennsylvania.