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And to think my Senior year of High School I ran away from home because my dad limited me to 10 minutes a phone call!!!!
 
A wealthy hedge-fund chief was gunned down by his adult son after he threatened to cut his allowance by a $100 a week and stop paying his steep rent, cops said Monday.

Spoiled manchild Thomas Gilbert Jr., 30, flew into a murderous rage when he confronted his fed-up dad, Thomas Gilbert Sr., 70, over the downsizing of financial support, police said.

“He was on a stipend from the family. Looks like he was in debt,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said of the accused killer.

The freeloading son, a Princeton grad, shot his father once in the head with a .40-caliber Glock 22 handgun Sunday afternoon inside is parents’ multimillion-dollar Beekman Place apartment, police said.

“He was on a stipend from the family. Looks like he was in debt,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said of the accused killer.

The freeloading son, a Princeton grad, shot his father once in the head with a .40-caliber Glock 22 handgun Sunday afternoon inside is parents’ multimillion-dollar Beekman Place apartment, police said.

He then callously staged the murder scene to appear as if it was a suicide, placing the gun on his father’s chest and putting the dead man’s left hand over it, Boyce said.

“The gun laying where it was didn’t seem like a self-inflicted wound as we’ve had in the past,” Boyce said.

Gilbert Jr. was charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon, and was awaiting arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court Monday night.

He showed no emotion and refused to speak to reporters as detectives escorted him out of the 17th Precinct stationhouse Monday evening and hauled him off to court.

Gilberts parents recently told him they were cutting his $400 a week allowance by $100, a police source said. His parents also informed him they would no longer pay the rent on his apartment in a Chelsea building, where rents average $3,100 a month, the source said.


The mooching son showed up at his parents’ apartment about 3 p.m. Sunday and asked if he could have a word alone with his father, Boyce said.

His mother, Shelley, obliged and went out to buy her son a sandwich.

“About 15 minutes after that she had a bad feeling and decided to return,” Boyce said.

After finding her husband’s body, Shelley Gilbert called 911.

Following Gilbert’s arrest at 10:30 p.m. Sunday, police recovered two .40-caliber magazine clips matching the murder weapon, numerous loose rounds and a manufactures box for the Glock 22.

The killer son refused to talk to detectives and requested a lawyer.
http://nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc...killed-son-allowance-source-article-1.2066224
 
What a POS monster they created! Even if I would ever have the money there's no way in Hell I would have done this for this many years. His ass would have been supporting himself and if he didn't want to get a job he would just have to sponge off of someone else. If he's that damn sorry I don't want to encourage him to be anymore of a freeloading douchebag that he already is. Tough love obviously never played into their ideas of discipline but it sure is in mine! Sometimes people with the most money just don't have the sense God gave them or maybe he was trying to make up for not spending enough time with his son but even at that his father should have known better.
 
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His defense lawyer just needs to mention how the parents are closet Christians who tortured their child by refusing a sex change operation before he was 18. The victimhood blame game should be entrenched in our big cities enough to at least get a hung jury with left-wing Judge.
 
He's stupid.
He knows nothing of forensics or how a suicide "looks".
He wanted a "word" with his father, his mother was aware & then the dad just decides to commit suicide?

His parents are stupid.
His mother goes out to buy him a sandwich feels very, bitch-make-me-a-sammich. This was her role SHE chose, to cajole him.
His father has a 30 yr old living off of him at $1200 a month PLUS rent money. Our job is to ready our children, not create more dependence.
They wised up too late.
 
Jesus. They've been supporting his ass in style for 30 years, he has a world class education, yet getting a damn job is too much for him? How fucking ungrateful and spoiled do you have to be to actually kill them??
Well definitely ungrateful but also without forethought ....because shooting your father means no money at all AND prison.
 
His mother goes out to buy him a sandwich feels very, bitch-make-me-a-sammich. This was her role SHE chose, to cajole him.
Exactly!

reading that she went to get her grown son a sandwich because he asked, probably demanded, actually pissed me off. That behavior on her part is what got them a spoiled fucktard in the first place.
 
Exactly!

reading that she went to get her grown son a sandwich because he asked, probably demanded, actually pissed me off. That behavior on her part is what got them a spoiled fucktard in the first place.
We women are sensitive about ANY sandwich making!! ;) Don't you take our sandwich making for granted.
 
Oh..I DO love these stories, Call me a Bitch--you wouldn't be the first--but if some affluenza-stricken little fuck has done something awful, because his parents are rich 1%'s (I myself am a Honey 1%er, totally different thing, but *sighs* I know what it feels like, haha) and did NOT raise it right, then yes...I take joy in knowing that because of their lack of parenting skills, they got payback...which is also, 'A Bitch' last time I checked.

Man, I left home at 15, had a job, and still went to school.

In the late 80's? Not so odd...Now? A friggin fairy tale.
Ah...Proud to be a Gen X'er, we have BITE!
 
Exactly!

reading that she went to get her grown son a sandwich because he asked, probably demanded, actually pissed me off. That behavior on her part is what got them a spoiled fucktard in the first place.

That's the part that had me shaking my head too.

I can hear it now, "bitch, go get me a sammich! I wanna talk to daddy!" "Yes dear, I'll get your favorite."

And now I'm thinking of the McChicken sandwich guy.
 
Wow what an idiot...in another few yrs he'd have had millions to play with. Now he gets NOTHING! Ha Ha Ha! I hope his mother stands strong and refuses to pay his legal fees and lets him suffer the consequences without high paid power defense attorneys. This guy is the lowest scum. They were trying to put him in a position to grow up and take care of himself before anything happened to them. They needed to know he could take care of himself. Now he's left his mother all alone...without the love of her life. I really feel for the wife/mother...dealing with two tragedies here.

The parents recognized way too late that they raised an inconsiderate entitled brat. RIP Mr. Gilbert Sr.
 
You start teaching your children independence when they are BABIES, you can't start when they are 30 fucking years old. It's hard to teach an 8 year old to be independent of their parents if they chose not to be. Again, this world is going to hell in a hand basket, whatever the hell that is!
 
Son allegedly killed Manhattan hedge fund founder over $200 allowance cut, police say

The son of a millionaire Manhattan hedge fund founder who allegedly gunned down his dad over his allowance has been arraigned on a second-degree murder charge, authorities said.

Thomas Gilbert Jr., 30, was also charged with criminal possession of a weapon and criminal possession of forgery devices in the Sunday killing of his 70-year-old father.

New York City police said Thomas Gilbert Sr. was shot in the head at his Beekman Place residence on Manhattan's East Side Sunday afternoon after the two argued over the son's allowance.

They say the son went to his parents' home and asked his mother to go out to get him some food. About 15 minutes later, she got a "bad feeling" and came back, Robert Boyce, the chief of detectives for the New York Police Department, told the Associated Press. When she returned, police say she found her husband on the floor with a bullet wound in the head and a handgun near his body.

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.

"She [Mrs. Gilbert] found Senior on the floor with a bullet hole in the head," said Boyce. "She also found a gun resting on his chest with his left hand covering it."

But Boyce said it was a staged suicide — his son was trying to cover up the killing. Officers with a search warrant found magazines, loose bullets and a shell that matched the gun found at the scene in Gilbert Jr.'s apartment, police said. Authorities were investigating how he got the gun.

The defendant is due back in court on Friday. His attorney didn't immediately return a call for comment.

A neighbor told the paper that he had learned from a doorman that the younger Gilbert had entered the building shortly after his father, but left minutes later and did not respond to the doorman's greeting.

In 2011, the elder Gilbert founded Wainscott Capital Partners Fund, which has $200 million in assets. Industry publication Hedge Fund Alert said in an August 2013 article that the fund had a net return of nearly 25 percent in 2012.

He was a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School. Gilbert Jr. also attended Princeton, graduating in 2009 with a degree in economics. Authorities said he had no recent work history.

Gilbert Sr. worked on Wall Street for more than 40 years, according to his profile on Wainscott's website, and previously co-founded Syzygy Therapeutics, a biotech asset acquisition fund. He also was founder and CEO of an online teacher-education company called Knowledge Delivery Systems Inc.

Wainscott had no immediate comment Monday. The hedge fund invests in biotechnology and health care stocks, which typically make up about 70 to 80 percent of its investments, according to the firm's website. The fund focuses on stocks traded on large exchanges like the Nasdaq and New York Stock Exchange, with as many as 70 different investments at one time. The minimum amount for investors is $500,000.

"He was a pillar on Wall Street — somebody everyone looked up to," Hector Torres, a neighbor of Gilbert's who also works in finance, told the New York Post. "Very nice gentleman ... They seem like a normal family," Torres added. “Every time I saw him in the elevator, he would say hi, he would ask how I was."

The younger Gilbert has a pending criminal case in the town of Southampton, on eastern Long Island.

Gilbert was arrested Sept. 18 on a charge of criminal contempt. Southampton town police say he violated an order of protection issued in Brooklyn in June. He has pleaded not guilty and has a Feb. 2 court date scheduled.
 
"Allowance" is what me and my siblings got when we were young kids for doing EXTRA chores in addition to the normal stuff like making our beds and washing dishes etc. Even as young children, allowance was earned! Then when we were a bit older we started babysitting neighborhood kids for money until we were old enough to get a real job
This guy is a lazy entitled piece of shit and this story infuriates me
 
I've been wondering why he didn't just ask his dad if he could work for him at some cushy made up position opening mail or something.
 
I've been wondering why he didn't just ask his dad if he could work for him at some cushy made up position opening mail or something.
Oh, perish the thought, work? How dare you think he could stoop to such a lowly level? He's practically American Royalty, obviously, he could never demean himself by even pretending to "work" for any reason let alone for money from his parents. They owe him that money, don't you know that?

:sarcasm: In case that wasn't obvious in what I wrote.:)
 
Accused NYC dad-killer tied to Southampton fire: officials

The spoiled son accused of killing his wealthy hedge fund manager dad over a reduction in his allowance has been in trouble with the law before — and may be linked to an arson in Southampton, officials said.

In September, months before facing a murder rap for shooting his father dead in Manhattan on Sunday, Thomas Gilbert Jr., 30, was charged with criminal contempt for violating an order of protection filed by Sagaponack homeowner Peter Smith.

Smith had obtained the order in April, according to the Southampton Press.

Three days before Gilbert was arrested for violating the order, Smith’s 17th century home was set on fire, the newspaper reported.

Half of the house was burned to the ground. The second half — the oldest portion that dates back to 1650 — was gutted, officials said.

A gas can and some rags soaked in gasoline were found at a cemetery a few feet from the home, officials said.

The fire remains under investigation as a possible arson, officials said.

It was not immediately revealed how Gilbert violated the order of protection or if he was considered a suspect in the arson.
 
Ya know, I'm pretty sure this would be me if my mom was rich, gave me everything AND an allowance. Get a job? What for?
 

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