Exclusive | Fellow jailbird dishes on Luigi Mangiones job, daily routine and demeanor inside Brooklyn jail

Luigi Mangione’s job in federal lockup is cleaning showers — and he’s a one-man welcoming committee, according to a fellow jailbird. When Michael Daddea arrived at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park, a guard told him he would be housed in the same unit as the accused assassin of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, he revealed in a video posted to X.“I’m like, ‘Yeah, he’s being a wise ass’..

.I look out the cell, Luigi is standing there and he’s like, ‘Hey, how’s it going?’ Like, super nice.

Introduced himself to me first thing.I’ve literally – I’ve been in the unit for 10 minutes,” Daddea, 29, recalled in the June 7 clip, which amassed over 80,000 views before it was deleted from his profile this week. Daddea was slapped with federal charges in February for allegedly 3D-printing more than 25 untraceable “ghost guns” – not unlike the firearm Mangione, 27, is accused of using to kill Thompson, 50, on a Midtown sidewalk on Dec.

4. The Tampa native only spent two nights in the federal lockup’s 4G unit before making $250,000 bail at his March 7 arraignment, according to the Brooklyn US Attorney’s office.But he claims he, a fellow inmate nicknamed “V,” and Mangione wasted no time becoming buddies. “I go up and I go to shake Luigi’s hand, I’m like, ‘Yo, it’s an honor to meet you.’ ..

.He turns around and he goes to me, ‘You two are the first kids that came in here who knew who I was or even cared about it,’” Daddea recalled.“I guess he must have seen another white kid and he was like, ‘Finally,’” Daddea theorized in the clip. Mangione – who has been a “model prisoner” in his over 175 days of pre-trial detention, according to his lawyers – is a “collie,” which is a term used to refer to inmates with prison jobs, Daddea explained in the clip. “So a collie could be like a unit boss that tells you what cell you’re going to.

Luigi just happened to be a coll...