Luigi Mangione copycat’s stunning employment history revealed as she’s arrested over insurance threats
The Florida woman arrested for allegedly threatening a health insurer with the same words found on the bullets used to kill UnitedHealthcare’s CEO is a healthcare veteran.
Briana Boston, 42, who was accused of making a threatening call to BlueCross BlueShield about a denied medical claim, works as a nuclear medicine technologist and has spent 10 years in the field, according to her LinkedIn profile.
She currently holds the position at Bond Clinic, PA, in Winter Haven, Florida, not far from her home in Lakeland, where police officers responded Tuesday after receiving a tip from the FBI.
Towards the end of her call with BlueCross BlueShield, she told the operator, “Delay, denial, dismissal. You guys are next,” her arrest report said.
The words were found on bullet casings at the scene of the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, of which 26-year-old Luigi Mangione is the prime suspect.
Boston admitted to police that she used the words “because it’s in the news right now,” according to the arrest report.
She told investigators that “healthcare companies played games and earned karma in the world for being bad.”
She stated that she was not a gun owner or “a danger to anyone,” the report said.
Briana Boston, 42, was arrested for allegedly threatening a health care provider with the same words found on the bullets used to kill. The CEO of UnitedHealthcare is a veteran of the healthcare industry
The 42-year-old Boston, who was accused of making a threatening call to BlueCross BlueShield about a denied medical claim, works as a nuclear medicine technologist and has worked in the field for a decade, according to her LinkedIn profile. Pictured: Briana Boston learning the terms of her bond
The mother of three was charged with threatening a mass shooting or an act of terrorism. Her bail was set at $100,000, with a judge reportedly noting that this was “appropriate given the status of our country at this time.”
She was charged with threatening a mass shooting or an act of terrorism.
Her bail was set at $100,000, with a judge reportedly noting that this was “appropriate given the status of our country at this time.”
A fundraising campaign was launched to raise $100,000 to pay Boston’s bail.
The words were found on bullet casings at the scene of the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, of which 26-year-old Luigi Mangione (pictured) is the prime suspect.
‘[I]Briana did not threaten anyone in any way,” the fundraising page reads. ‘She is a mother of three children and has a zero record. She does not own any weapons. Her imprisonment is a violation of the First Amendment and we want to help her find freedom.”
DailyMail.com contacted Bond Clinic, PA, which would neither confirm nor deny her employment with the company.
Her attorney did not respond to a request for comment.
Boston is a registered radiologic technologist and a certified nuclear medicine technologist, according to her LinkedIn profile, which also lists the American Heart Association among her licenses and certifications.
She has received numerous endorsements from other LinkedIn users for her healthcare skills.
Nuclear medicine is a specialty “that uses radioactive tracers (radiopharmaceuticals) to assess body functions and diagnose and treat disease,” according to the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering.