A Wall Street murder has Manhattan high society gossiping about what went wrong

Tommy Gilbert Jr has been arrested on suspicion of shooting Tommy Sr, a rich Wall St investor. How did such a gilded life corrode? asks Lynnley Browning

A Wall Street murder has Manhattan high society gossiping about what went wrong

AS Wall Street investor Thomas Gilbert Sr. stood under the giant elm trees shading Princeton University’s stately Nassau Hall, on a sunny June commencement day in 2009, he saw a gleaming future for his son, Thomas Jr.

“He’s going to run a hedge fund!” the senior Gilbert, also a Princeton alumnus, said with pride when asked what the handsome, 6-foot-3, blond-haired Tommy planned to do with his economics degree. But things turned out very differently.

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