GUILTY NY - Thomas Gilbert, 70, murdered in his Manhattan apt, 4 Jan 2015 *Son Arrested*

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http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/05/us/hedge-fund-founder-death/

A man who started a biotech hedge fund and grew it to a business with $200 million in assets was found shot to death in his upscale Manhattan apartment.

Thomas Gilbert, 70, founded the biotech and healthcare-focused hedge fund, Wainscott Capital Partners Fund, in 2011.

His wife found his body in their 8th-floor apartment about 3:30 p.m Sunday. He had been shot in the head, police said.
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http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...shot-dead-son-police-source-article-1.2065572

The murder sent cops fanning out across the tony Sutton Place neighborhood seeking the son, Thomas Gilbert Jr., who fled the scene on foot and headed to his W. 18th St. pad, officials said.

The son, 30, was captured about 10:45 p.m. after cops in riot gear chopped down the door of his ground-floor apartment and found him hiding inside, officials said.

He was taken away in handcuffs, but a motive for the alleged patricide remained unclear. Gilbert Jr., a Princeton grad, showed no emotion and appeared stone-faced as cops took him to the 17th Precinct stationhouse for questioning.
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sick.....another kid killing a parent....good lord
 
A kid who apparently had everything going for him, at first glance. Sounds like maybe he went down a wrong path some time ago and dad got tired of funding his wastrel lifestyle.
 
Money and greed all over again
He has not been named a suspect yet, but by all accounts he was lucky to have an education only a few can afford, so why wasn't he able to pursue his dreams. He wasn't even able to pay his rent.
Likely felt entitled, always wanted more for little or no effort required.
If so, I guess he has made his bed.





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http://abcnews.go.com/US/tommy-gilbert-son-slain-hedge-fund-founder-appears/story?id=28020251

The son of a hedge fund founder accused in his father’s shooting death made his initial court appearance Monday, standing with his defense attorneys and saying nothing.

Tommy Gilbert, 30, did not enter a plea. He’s charged with murder in the second degree for the fatal shooting of Thomas Gilbert, 70, along with a weapons charge and 21 counts of criminal possession of forgery devices – with authorities saying they recovered a skimming device and 21 blank credit cards in Gilbert’s apartment...

Investigators told ABC News that the father recently discussed no longer paying his son's rent. They also say he discussed reducing his weekly allowance from $400 per week to $300.
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Different numbers here:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/01/0...ortedly-killed-by-son-in-manhattan-apartment/

A law enforcement source told the New York Post that Thomas Gilbert Jr. had just been told by his father that he would only receive $400 for spending money per month from that point on in addition to $2,400 per month for rent. The younger Gilbert had previously received $600 per month.
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He graduated from Princeton but couldn't find any kind of work? And he killed his father over 200 bucks a month?
 
From Fifth Avenue's link:

"The defendant also had 21 blank credit cards and a skimming device, which swipes credit and debit-card information when affixed to an ATM, prosecutors said."
 
katydid23 said:
He graduated from Princeton but couldn't find any kind of work? And he killed his father over 200 bucks a month?
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I am sure he would have been able to find work, but may be not the work he wanted?
Perhaps, with little or no experience he was offered some entry level job but he wanted to be CEO.

Wanted to be a successful businessman like his father, but perhaps he wasn't prepared to work hard for hit.
So he plotted to take over his father position as head of the company, likely a successful business, by staging his suicide.
Just plain evil.



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The ultimate basement, nope scratch that, penthouse dweller. THIRTY YEARS OLD?!? FFS, get a job, son. It's not like you didn't have the social connections via your family and friends.

Imagine what that money and education could have done for a bright young soul willing to put it to use to better him or herself.
 
The man accused of killing his millionaire Manhattan dad is straight out of the horror flick “American Psycho’’ — “able to charm . . . with his good looks and his waspy background, but behind that, he was dangerous,’’ a close pal told The Post in an exclusive interview Tuesday.

Thomas Gilbert Jr. should have been locked up for arson and for the violation of a protective order against him long before the slaying — but “wasn’t because he’s a charming, white Princeton graduate,’’ the friend said.

http://nypost.com/2015/01/07/hedge-fund-murder-suspect-charmed-his-way-out-of-trouble/
 
Fifth Avenue said:
Money and greed all over again
He has not been named a suspect yet, but by all accounts he was lucky to have an education only a few can afford, so why wasn't he able to pursue his dreams. He wasn't even able to pay his rent.
Likely felt entitled, always wanted more for little or no effort required.
If so, I guess he has made his bed.





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That is what I am thinking too. Someone who is narcissistic and has an extreme sense of entitlement like Elliot Rodger.

Blondie in Spokane said:
From Fifth Avenue's link:

"The defendant also had 21 blank credit cards and a skimming device, which swipes credit and debit-card information when affixed to an ATM, prosecutors said."
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Sounds like a person who likely lives a life of crime. An identity thief perhaps.

EXCLUSIVE: 'A friend warned Tommy would kill me': Ex lover of Princeton grad who 'shot dead his father' reveals he dreamed of being a model and was in therapy
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...end-Anna-Rothschild-says-warned-kill-her.html

The socialite ex-girlfriend of Tommy Gilbert, the trust-fund Princeton graduate believed to have shot dead his father, says she was repeatedly warned that he 'would chop her into tiny pieces'.

Anna Rothschild, 49, dated the 30-year-old aspiring model and actor for four months early last year but broke off the relationship because there was no long-term future.

The socialite, who is not related to the powerful Rothschild banking dynasty, exclusively told the Daily Mail Online that when she first began seeing Tommy, after meeting him at a friend's dinner party, a close friend had called her out of deep concern.

There are lots of red flags raised with Thomas Gilbert Jr. He also had poor relationship with his father, Thomas Gilbert Sr. I notice many criminals have negative relationship with one or both parents.
 
Blondie in Spokane said:
Princeton grad who 'murdered his hedge fund manager father' is set to inherent one third of his $1.6 million will

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...d-allowance-cut-inherit-1-6-million-will.html
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from your link:
"Friends and family said that Gilbert Jr. suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder that had become more severe in recent years and made his behavior increasingly erratic. ''

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...t-inherit-1-6-million-will.html#ixzz3OspRyEhj
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he doesn't get a share of the midtown apartment nor the $10 million Hamptons house though.....that must bother him a lot
 
How hedge fund boss dad who was 'killed by his 30-year-old trust-fund son' in fight over allowance was only worth $1.6m - and had put his Long Island mansion up for sale

The 70-year-old, multimillionaire hedge fund manager allegedly killed by his own son over money may not have been as wealthy as was widely reported.

Thomas Gilbert Sr., founder of Wainscott Capital, and his family are undoubtedly wealthy. But, as it turns out, the hedge fund manager was no magnate.

His reported $200 million hedge fund was actually only $7 million, and the pedigreed Wall Street veteran was doing some 'modest downsizing' in the months before his death, the New York Times reports.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ly-moved-smaller-apartment.html#ixzz3P6IvG5mu
 
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