{"id":357999,"date":"2026-09-27T07:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T07:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/357999\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T07:02:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T07:02:23","slug":"killing-of-health-care-executive-gave-me-hope-says-jersey-city-councilmans-aide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/357999\/","title":{"rendered":"Killing of Health Care Executive &#8216;Gave Me Hope,&#8217; Says Jersey City Councilman\u2019s Aide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/player-standard.jpg\" alt=\"Everlit Audio Player\" style=\"width: 100%;display: block\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An aide to Democratic Socialist Jersey City Councilman Jake Ephros <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/hudson\/2026\/09\/luigi-mangione-fangirl-works-for-one-of-njs-biggest-cities-shes-causing-drama-in-nyc-court.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/hudson\/2026\/09\/luigi-mangione-fangirl-works-for-one-of-njs-biggest-cities-shes-causing-drama-in-nyc-court.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has been identified<\/a> as an outspoken advocate for Luigi Mangione, who pleaded guilty this summer to stalking and killing former United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan in December 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Create a free account and read two articles a month!<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Already a subscriber? <a href=\"https:\/\/jcitytimes.com\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/jcitytimes.com\/author\/andy-milone\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/f94522e67a2a9a3b8b474fad26b145d65ae7da9c8148868127c4a22281154e22.png\"  class=\"avatar avatar-120 photo\" height=\"120\" width=\"120\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAndy Milone is a staff reporter for the Jersey City Times who primarily covers local government. You can reach him at 201-406-7222 (call\/text) or amilone@jcitytimes.com. Follow him on X (Twitter) @ATMilone,&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jcitytimes.com\/author\/andy-milone\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Andy Milone\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/jcitytimes.com\/author\/aaromo\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Avatar photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/cropped-Screenshot-2025-07-24-at-9.47.05-AM-120x120.png\"  class=\"avatar avatar-120 photo\" height=\"120\" width=\"120\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAaron is the Founder, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief of the Jersey City Times. He attended Berklee College of Music and the State University of New York at Purchase. He served as a Peace Corps volunteer&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jcitytimes.com\/author\/aaromo\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Aaron Morrill\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An aide to Democratic Socialist Jersey City Councilman Jake Ephros has been identified as an outspoken advocate for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[42464,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-357999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-jersey-city-politics","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}