Magistrate Judge Katharine H. Parker, who is overseeing pre-trial hearings for Luigi Mangione, is married to a former Pfizer executive and holds hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock, including in healthcare companies and pharmaceutical companies, according to her 2023 financial disclosures.

The judge’s ties to the healthcare business are a stark reminder of how pervasive the for-profit industry is in American life — a point made by Mangione himself.

Parker’s husband, Bret Parker, left Pfizer in 2010, where he served as Vice President and assistant general counsel after holding the same titles at Wyeth, a pharmaceutical manufacturer purchased by Pfizer. According to Parker’s disclosures, her husband Bret still collects a pension from his time at Pfizer in the form of a Senior Executive Retirement Plan, or SERP.

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[–] pringus@lemm.ee 25 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I feel like I'm going to wake up tomorrow reading about Luigi being put in the mind prison for 23,000 years. They really do freak the fuck out when the victim is financially better off than the majority of the country.

[–] elpaso@hexbear.net 15 points 18 hours ago

John Brown caused the southern states to completely lose their minds.

I'm seeing parallels here.