Luigi Mangione prosecutors fire back on ‘eavesdropping’ claim

Luigi Mangione's jailhouse calls were not "eavesdropped on" by prosecutors, the U.S. government said in a Monday court filing after his defense attorneys claimed officials shared his recorded calls.

"To be sure, no one at DANY or the Government ‘eavesdropped’ on the defendant on a live basis," federal prosecutors wrote. "Rather, consistent with well-known practice in federal and state jails, many of the defendant’s calls are recorded, with notice of the recording provided to him and the person on the other side of any calls." Audrey Conklin is a digital reporter for Fox News Digital and FOX Business. Email tips to audrey.conklin@fox.com or on Twitter at @audpants.

Prosecutors added that "a number of calls" between Mangione and Friedman Agnifilo "were provided by the Metropolitan Detention Center ('MDC') to the Government – and by the Government to DANY – because the defendant spoke to his counsel on a recorded and monitored jail line (not a line specially designated for attorney calls) and with counsel using a telephone number that was not identified as belonging to counsel (thus evading MDC’s process for filtering attorney calls before providing them to the Government)."