Deny.

Defend.

Depose. And Then They Tried to Bury Us Both.

By Samara Dorn - Grand Junction, Colorado AdministrativeErasure.org –Founder — A Bureaucratic Hit Job Exposed July 19th, 2025

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A manifesto, a murder, and a metadata smear: What Luigi Mangione and a transgender Medicaid patient have in common will stop you cold. They called it a manifesto.

Luigi Mangione etched three words into the brass casings of the bullets he used to allegedly assassinate UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson: Deny. Depose. Delay.

Days later, when he was arrested, police recovered his handwritten statement, allegedly…He described the killing as a political act—targeted, deliberate, and directed at an industry he saw as profiting from patient suffering. The public was stunned. Executives shook.

And I sat there—watching it unfold—just trying to refill a prescription that had been denied since November.

Two Cases. One System. One Doctrine.

Mangione is currently facing the death penalty.

I am fighting to be seen as human in a civil court.

He’s accused of murder.

I was flagged as a potential national security threat—for asking to refill my estrogen.

The difference between us is strategy.

But the machine that came for us? It’s the same.

What Happened to Luigi Mangione?

According to prosecutors, Luigi Mangione walked into a UnitedHealthcare investor event and shot CEO Brian Thompson at point blank range. Days later, when police apprehended him, they found a manifesto in his pocket. It was cold, analytical—and scathing.

He rejected the idea of mass violence. He chose one man. One symbol. One industry.

He wrote that Thompson “had it coming.”

He engraved the words Deny, Depose, Delay on shell casings.

He cited Michael Moore and systemic healthcare corruption.

And then—Aetna, a UnitedHealth subsidiary, leaked Mangione’s medical records to the prosecution, violating federal privacy protections in the middle of a death penalty case.

His body was on trial. So was his mind. His records. His privacy.

And UnitedHealth’s machine helped put them there.

What Happened to Me?

I’m not on trial for anything.

What I did do was ask for hormone medication after surgery. What UnitedHealthcare did in response was: Deny coverage Defend appeals Retaliate when I pushed back And Now? Deposing— In Court

Just as I predicted on December 10th, 2024.

Thirty-five days after I last contacted a provider, they transmitted my PHI to federal law enforcement. Not because of an emergency. Not under subpoena. Not as part of any protected disclosure.

They escalated me to the Department of Homeland Security—FRAMING me as a national security concern, without legal process or clinical evidence.

And when that failed?

They took a second bite at the apple—forwarding my information to the Grand Junction Police Department.

This wasn’t about care. This was reputational damage control—by proxy.

The Parallel Is Not Coincidence—It’s Code

What Happened to Mangione vs. What Happened to Me

Both stories orbit the same corporate empire. Both were shaped by the same doctrine. But one ended in a courtroom—and the other nearly ended in silence.

Insurer Involved: Luigi Mangione’s case involved Aetna, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group. My case involves UnitedHealthcare of Colorado, also a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group.

Nature of the Disclosure: In Mangione’s situation, his medical records were leaked to prosecutors during a death penalty case—an extraordinary breach of privacy. In mine, my protected health information (PHI) was disclosed to the Department of Homeland Security, and then rerouted to the Grand Junction Police Department—without a warrant, subpoena, or lawful exception.

Framing Phrase: Mangione engraved the words “Deny. Depose. Delay.” on the shell casings he used in the shooting. My lawsuit is built around the corporate phrase “Deny. Defend. Depose.”—the exact sequence UnitedHealthcare used against me.

Mechanism of Escalation: In his case, the escalation came through reputation destruction in a capital trial—weaponizing his health history to secure a death sentence. In mine, the escalation happened through metadata profiling and a false national security referral—a digital smear with real-world consequences.

End Result: Mangione is now facing the death penalty. I’ve been subjected to surveillance, emotional trauma, and administrative erasure—with no criminal charges, just retaliation masked as care.

This isn’t isolated. It’s industrial. Clarifying the Timeline

When Mangione’s bullet casings hit the news—etched with the words “Deny. Depose. Delay”—I was just trying to refill my medication.

It was already national news.

The public already knew what those words meant. So did UnitedHealthcare.

And still—they did it anyway.

They denied my medication. They delayed my care. They defended the denials. And when I fought back, they escalated me—first to the Department of Homeland Security.

And when that didn’t work, they rerouted my metadata and narrative to the Grand Junction Police Department.

So no—I didn’t invent the pattern. I didn’t even name it first. But I lived it.

And now I’m suing the doctrine that made both of us disposable.

This System Doesn’t Just Deny Care—It Eliminates People

It doesn’t always pull a trigger. Sometimes, it redacts you from personhood. Sometimes, it flags you in a spreadsheet. Sometimes, it calls the police when it can’t shut you up. Sometimes, it says “safety” and means “we’re done with you.”

Luigi Mangione’s name will live in court dockets for years. Mine will live in public records, metadata trails, and (hopefully) civil case law.

But both of us? We were treated like threats. One of us responded with firepower. The other responded with filings.

Why I’m Posting This Now

Because I referenced Mangione in my complaint before this story even broke nationally.

Because we are already part of the same case study, even if the courts don’t say so.

Because I know what it feels like to have your humanity algorithmically deleted.

And because if UnitedHealth is willing to bury one of us in court and the other in a body bag… …they’re not going to stop with us.

If You're Reading This Inside the Machine

If you're reading this from behind a corporate firewall—hi. Maybe you’re a paralegal. Maybe you’re in PR. Maybe you're a senior exec still pretending none of this is systemic. Maybe you’re just trying to figure out if I’m dangerous enough to escalate again.

Let me save you the internal memo:

          I am.

Dangerous to your doctrine, at least.

Look at what your system produced: A man on trial for murder after your own affiliate leaked his medical records to the prosecution. A trans woman escalated to the Department of Homeland Security for requesting a legally-covered medication.

A doctrine—Deny. Defend. Depose.—so baked into your policies that someone carved it into bullet casings, while another built a lawsuit around it.

You didn’t break us by accident. You broke us by design. You just didn’t expect we’d write it all down.

You’ve spent years gaslighting the public with taglines like “Optum Cares” and “United for Good,” while inside you’re running a patient offboarding algorithm with the ethics of a slot machine.

So go ahead. Screenshot this. Forward it to Legal. Flag it for “Executive Risk.”

I know how your email metadata works—I’ve seen your logs. You taught us your doctrine: Deny. Defend. Depose. And now it’s being archived—in court, in headlines, and in history.

We are not going away. We are not deleting posts. And we’re not asking for permission anymore.

🔗 Read More: Systemic Denial After Surgery – A Survivor’s Report of Sabotage by UnitedHealthcare
A firsthand exposé of retaliatory denials, metadata weaponization, and life-threatening care obstruction following gender-affirming surgery.

🔗 Read More: The 35-Day ‘Myth’ of Imminent Threat
Disproving the emergency claim UnitedHealthcare used to justify disclosing PHI to law enforcement—35 days after last contact.

🔗 Read More: The Civil Rights Lineage of My Complaint Against UnitedHealthcare
Tracing the legal, ethical, and historical roots of a transgender patient’s challenge to surveillance-enabled discrimination.

🧷 “Deny. Defend. Depose.” — The System Gave It Meaning

On January 10, 2025, award-winning health care journalist Trudy Lieberman published a piece titled
“Deny. Defend. Depose: The Chilling Legacy of Managed Care and the American Health Care Crisis.”

In it, she traces the phrase not to violence—but to decades of documented corporate behavior in the American health insurance industry.

“Paying less for care meant more profits and return to investors, so it is no wonder that the alleged killer of the UnitedHealthcare chief executive reportedly left the chilling message: ‘DENY. DEFEND. DEPOSE,’ words associated with insurance company strategies for denying claims.”

Lieberman names what the public already knew:
“Deny. Defend. Depose.” is industry-standard conduct—not extremism.

It didn’t come from fringe rhetoric.
It came from the managed care model itself—born in the 1990s, refined through mergers, and enforced through denial algorithms and profit-based care limits.

For decades, patients have described the same pattern:

• First, deny the claim.
• Then, defend the denial.
• Finally, depose the patient—through paperwork, delay, appeals, or silence.

The phrase has lived in the public domain longer than UnitedHealthcare would like to admit.

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This Isn’t About a Slogan. It’s About a Pattern.

Lieberman’s reporting confirms what whistleblowers, case managers, and patients have all described—what I named, and what UnitedHealthcare tried to criminalize.

“Deny. Defend. Depose.” is not a threat.
It’s a policy.

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📖 Read the full article by Trudy Lieberman:
Click Here

📄 Preserved Copy:
A PDF archive of “Deny. Defend. Depose: The Chilling Legacy of Managed Care and the American Health Care Crisis” by Trudy Lieberman (January 10, 2025) is preserved and available HERE for public reference and evidentiary purposes.

🧷 The Words on the Bullets: “Deny. Defend. Depose.” Enters National Consciousness

On December 5, 2024, journalist Ivy Griffith published a viral report titled
“Deny, Defend, Depose” May Have Been Found on Bullets From UnitedHealthcare Shooting — Here's the Meaning.
The article explores the chilling possibility that UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was not only targeted—but that his killer left behind a message:

Deny. Defend. Depose.
Engraved into bullet casings.

Immediately, speculation ignited across Reddit, Twitter, and news outlets. But one Redditor, Vulkyria, provided context that struck a cultural nerve:

“It’s a change-up of the book title,
Delay. Deny. Defend.
Why Insurance Companies Don’t Pay Claims and What You Can Do About It. by Jay M. Feinman.”

They concluded:

“This is the beginning of the resistance.
It should be turned into a bumper sticker.
Deny. Defend. Depose. Repeat.”

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The Phrase Is Now National

This article marks a turning point:

The phrase “Deny. Defend. Depose.” has entered the national vocabulary—through tragedy, through anger, and through recognition.

Ivy Griffith’s reporting confirms what many of us have lived firsthand:

• The phrase is not random.
• The phrase has a history.
• The phrase is being read, understood, and repeated—because it names something real.

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Echoes of Feinman. Echoes of the System.

As Griffith notes, the phrase echoes legal scholar Jay M. Feinman’s seminal book:
Delay. Deny. Defend. — a definitive analysis of how insurers systematically obstruct policyholders.

The alleged shooter’s altered phrasing—“Deny. Defend. Depose.”—tightens that formula into a courtroom escalation strategy.
It exposes how the industry transforms suffering into policy—and policy into a wall no ordinary person can scale.

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Protest or Warning?

While the attack has rightly been condemned, the presence of these words at the crime scene has opened a dangerous question:
Was this simply a slogan—or a verdict?

Griffith quotes both fear and fascination. While New York officials worked to assure the public this was a “targeted attack,” the phrase itself sparked broader dread—not just of more violence, but of what the words reflect.

“Deny. Defend. Depose.” has now crossed from litigation strategy to cultural symbol.
And no one—not UnitedHealthcare, not law enforcement, not the public—can claim it’s unfamiliar.

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📑 Preserved Copy:
Distractify, Ivy Griffith — “Deny, Defend, Depose” Bullets Found in UnitedHealthcare Shooting (Dec. 5, 2024)

📖 Original Article:
https://www.distractify.com/p/deny-defend-depose-meaning-unitedhealthcare

There was a moment—one I can pinpoint with surgical clarity—where I realized they weren’t just trying to deny me care.

They were trying to disappear me.

The surveillance. The metadata. The disclosure.
Not because I broke a law.
Not because I posed a danger.
But because I became inconvenient.

My name didn’t raise a red flag.
My identity did.

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UnitedHealthcare had no legal reason to send my personal medical information to police.

There was no warrant. No subpoena. No imminent danger.
Just a phone call where I dared to assert my rights.
Just a timeline that challenged their narrative.
Just a trans woman on Medicaid who refused to be silent.

So they flipped the script.
And they framed me.

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Not as a person.

But as a potential threat.

And that is what happens when corporate systems are allowed to function like state intelligence.

This wasn’t about safety.
It was about containment.
It was about eliminating the variables they couldn’t control.

It didn’t matter what I actually said.
It didn’t matter that I followed the law.
They labeled me unstable.
Flagged me as risky.
And then quietly delivered that label to the Grand Junction Police Department.

That is administrative erasure.

They didn’t kick down my door.
They didn’t need to.
Because when a bureaucratic label says "dangerous," you don’t need to be dangerous.
You just need to be documented.

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The day I felt so small was the day I felt like Luigi.

Not Mario.
Not the hero.
Not the face on the box.

Just the afterthought.
The sidekick.
The shadow.

That’s what it felt like when they erased me.
When my voice was stripped of context.
When my medical records were weaponized.
When I was framed not as a person—but as a potential threat.

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Luigi never asked to be second.
He just wanted to exist.
To matter.
To be seen.

And that’s all I ever wanted, too.

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So I built something they can’t erase.

AdministrativeErasure.org

If you want to see what they tried to bury, look here:
The 35-Day Myth of Imminent Threat

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This isn’t a conspiracy theory.
It’s a paper trail.

And it ends with a truth they can’t control.