Son arrested in NYC hedge fund founder shooting

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Son arrested in NYC hedge fund founder shooting
COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — A 30-year-old man shot his hedge fund founder father to death inside his Manhattan apartment after the two argued over the son's allowance, police said Monday.

Thomas Gilbert Jr. was arrested on charges of murder and criminal possession of a weapon in the death of Thomas Gilbert Sr., 70. He was being held pending arraignment and the law office representing him had no comment.

Police said Gilbert Jr. went to his parents' home on Sunday afternoon and asked his mother to go out to get him some food. About 15 minutes later, she got a "bad feeling" and came back, said Robert Boyce, the chief of detectives for the New York Police Department.

"She found Senior on the floor with a bullet hole in the head," Boyce said. "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 went to Gilbert Jr.'s apartment, where they found magazines, loose bullets and a shell that matched the gun found at the scene, police said. Authorities were investigating how he got the gun.

Gilbert Jr. was in debt and had argued with his father over his allowance, police said.

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 he 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 on Monday. The hedge fund invests in biotechnology and health care stocks. The fund focuses on stocks traded on large exchanges like the Nasdaq and New York Stock Exchange, and the minimum amount for investors is $500,000.

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.
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Associated Press writer Matthew Perrone in Washington, Marley Seaman in New York and Frank Eltman in Garden City, New York, contributed to this report.


-- (c) Associated Press 2015-01-06

[GentlemanJim]

Lesson 1 , you don't give your kids a Princeton Education and then continue to give them an allowance when they are 30 years old!

Looks like Gilbert Jr won't need an allowance for the next 50 years.

[timmyp]

Stories like this intrigue me... I guess I have the delusion that the incredibly privelaged have their life in order more than they do. The tragedy of having so much a losing it all due to such moronic behaviour is captivating.

[Suradit69]

Lesson 1 , you don't give your kids a Princeton Education and then continue to give them an allowance when they are 30 years old!

Looks like Gilbert Jr won't need an allowance for the next 50 years.

In cases like this they ought to debit the family's financial resources the $50,000 to $100,000 annual "rent" that keeping a prisoner costs the government, i.e. tax payers.

[Nemesis7]

RIP

[how241]

Stories like this intrigue me... I guess I have the delusion that the incredibly privelaged have their life in order more than they do. The tragedy of having so much a losing it all due to such moronic behaviour is captivating.

The rich and famous, seem to have their share of problems too. RIP

[ezzra]

This is life..... one day you manage the hedge, another you're under it....

[Chris Lawrence]

Was Dad a control freak? Why did Dad feel the obligation to pay his son an allowance?

Why couldn't Jr stand on his own two feet?

A lot more to the relationship that is not said in this article?

Just extremely sad outcome.

[LALes]

A 30 year old asks his mother to go out and get him some food???????

Arguing over his allowance. Has another criminal case pending.

What a spoiled brat of a loser.

[Kaoboi Bebobp]

The Junior (allegedly) shoots his 70-year-old dad. How low can you go?

The thing is a privileged life means he knows nothing about life at all.

Suradit above has the right idea. The family has to pay for his eventual prison term.

[SouthernMan3]

Lesson 1 , you don't give your kids a Princeton Education and then continue to give them an allowance when they are 30 years old!

Looks like Gilbert Jr won't need an allowance for the next 50 years.

Sad.

But very true......