Nicholas Mangione - Luigi's grandfather and his possible ties to the Italian Mafia. Was Brian Thompson's death a Mob hit?

I looked into Luigi's family a little and his father and grandfather were both real estate developers in Maryland, specifically the Baltimore area. But the main person I want to focus on is Nicolas Mangione, Luigi's grandfather.

Nicolas was born in Baltimore's Little Italy neighborhood on February 17, 1925 into a poor Italian immigrant family. His father, Luigi (Luigi's Great Grandfather) was born in Enna, Sicily. Nicolas worked various jobs in the Baltimore area until 1943 when he joined the Navy during WWII. After returning he went to school for a bit before working as a brick laying contractor in the Baltimore area. Two years later, in 1949, Mangione bought out his partner, Michael Demarino, and founded Mangione & Co., a contract-based construction company.

Ok, so what does this have to do with the Italian Mafia you ask? During the time his grandfather got into the real estate business, from 1949 to the 1980s the Baltimore Crew in Maryland was at its peak with influence all over the Baltimore area, where Nicholas was doing business. During this period, the Baltimore Crew were heavily involved in gambling, extortion, loan sharking, and other criminal enterprises. The Baltimore Crew became a faction of the Gambino Crime Family, one of the famous "Five Families" in New York, in 1955, during the beginning stages of Nicholas's career as a real estate developer.

Now, listening to ex New York mobsters like Michael Franzese on YouTube recount his time in the mafia, if it's anything like New York, real estate developers HAVE to deal with the mob if they want to build in their controlled areas, and as an Italian he no doubt had to deal with them at some point as the Baltimore Crew were at the height of their power at the time and had a lot of influence over the Baltimore area.

There were apparently accusations that the success of his grandfather as a businessman was due to getting money from the Italian Mafia, but he denied those allegations and said it was just stereotyping, and there's no concrete evidence to support that, according to his Wikipedia page. However, where did he get the money to buy out his partner in 1949 and fund his real estate projects? He grew up in a poor family and had only been working as a contractor for two years when he bought him out.

In 1977 Nicholas founded Lorien Health Services in Baltimore (again, while the Baltimore Crew was at large) which Luigi's father Louis (who worked with Nicholas as a real estate developer) now owns today as a family owned business. Incidentally, Lorien Health Services agreed to pay $55,000 for allegedly violating the Civil Monetary Penalties Law by retaining overpayments on June 4, 2024. On November 18th, 2024 Luigi’s mother, Kathleen Mangione, reported her son missing and said she hadn’t heard from him since July, one month after the $55,000 settlement.

Luigi completely disappeared according to his friends and family, only to show up on the day he allegedly murdered United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York. However, we all saw the pictures. Although Luigi does look similar to the guy at reception without the mask, the alleged shooter looks completely different. Different jacket, different bag, different eyebrows, different everything.

So here's my conspiracy theory. Luigi's family does indeed have ties to the mafia, specifically the Gambino Crime Family through the Baltimore Crew in Maryland, a faction of the Gambino family. I know the mob isn't as powerful as it used to be, but they're still around today. My theory is that Brian Thompson was helping the mob as an associate in his work as the United Healthcare CEO, and crossed them at some point. He was then "wacked" by a mob associated professional hitman (in typical mob fashion, behind his back as he walked out of the hotel) that was then able to avoid detection and escape due to the mob's connections and knowledge of New York City.

However, someone had to take the fall for the hit and do the time for the higher ranked mobster that did the hit, so they had Luigi take the punishment who had joined the mob over the months he had "gone missing" and was already caught on camera without a mask while flirting. They gave him a manifesto and "evidence" and let him get caught at the McDonald's to take the fall for the actual killer.

TL;DR: Luigi's family, especially his grandfather Nicholas Mangione, may have had ties to the Baltimore Crew and Gambino Crime Family and Luigi is being made to take the fall for a higher ranked mobster who is the actual killer because he happened to be caught on camera without a mask.