NY man pleads guilty to harassing slain UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's family

Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News on Mar 20, 2026

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NEW YORK — A 40-year-old Saratoga County man pleaded guilty to cyberstalking the family of slain UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

The U.S. attorney’s office said Friday that Shane Daley of Galway admitted to leaving multiple threatening voicemail messages with Thompson’s family hours after the 50-year-old Minnesota man was killed in Midtown Manhattan.

Thompson was fatally shot Dec. 4, 2024, en route to a conference at the Residences Hilton Club near Central Park. Daley’s menacing calls started a short time later and continued through Dec. 7.

Suspect Luigi Mangione, 27, was arrested in a Pennsylvania McDonald’s on Dec. 9 and charged with Thompson’s murder. He’s scheduled to go on trial in New York in June followed by a federal hearing in September.

According to prosecutors, “Daley used threatening and harassing language that focused on, among other things, Thompson’s killing, expressed satisfaction over the fact and manner of his death, and stated that the victim and Thompson’s children deserved to meet the same violent end.”

The Albany Times-Union reported that one of Daley’s calls to an unnamed Thompson family member appeared to take issue with the health care industry.

“Your (relative) got lit the f--k up cause he’s a f--king asshole. Profiting off the backs of poor Americans. This s--t is going to keep happening to you f--king pricks. F--k you,” that message said.

Daley will be sentenced July 17. He faces up to five years in prison and a maximum fine of $250,000.

Mangione is being held in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Corrections Center. He pleaded not guilty and faces life in prison if convicted of Thompson’s death.

The health care executive was a father to two teenage sons. His wife, Paulette Thompson, told CBS News after her husband’s death that he’d been receiving threats.

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