Is Nick Reiner About to Beat the Law That Stopped the Menendez Brothers?

**Tony Brueski** (0:00)
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**Tony Brueski** (0:07)
Let's talk about numbers, shall we? And it's not the one you think that's been, you know, floating around in this case for a little bit, the million and a half dollars that he's suing to get. It's 300 Nick Reiner accused of stabbing both of his parents to death in their Brentwood home just filed a 136-page legal document in a Los Angeles probate court, a 136-pages. And buried in the middle of all of it, right next to the demand for the million and a half dollar payout, is a line asking for socks, socks and hygiene products. Because at Twin Towers, your commissary account is capped at 300 bucks. And according to this filing, somebody on the trust side promised to keep that amount funded. Per the petition, not a single dollar has ever showed up. So you've got an air to want to Hollywood's biggest fortune sitting in a cell asking a court for soap money. And a million and a half bucks. That's where we start.
And look, I spent six months telling you what I think about Nick Reiner. You know where I stand. Today, I'm doing something different. Honestly, I don't love it. Setting all of that down. All of it. And you know, as we do here, we do like to look at things from every perspective. There's not always a right or a wrong here. It's looking at things and trying to understand the motivation behind the actions that the people in the stories that we talk about have, how they got there.
And express our own. That's what we do. So you know my opinion about Nick Reiner, my anger, my opinion, the gut reaction that I've been expressing. If you've been watching, if not, go back. There's a little bit to watch. We got to put it on a shelf here for the next few minutes. Because I'm going to answer one question as straight as I can. Should this man get the money? Get, not the sock money. I mean, I don't think he even deserves that. Should he get the million and a half dollars and the sock money, I guess? Two for one. My gut says, absolutely not. Your gut probably does too. Every inch of your being probably says, no, you do not get a million and a half dollars from the parents that you killed. But my gut and your gut don't write law in California. So I read the filing every page and what's in there is more complicated than anyone out there is making it. It is, it is very complicated. And it's an interpretation thing that a court's going to have to do its interpretation dance to figure out. Quick setup for anyone just finding this. If you're wanting to, to count what's going on here.
Let's go back in time a little bit. December 25, Brentwood, California, Rob and Michele Reiner stabbed to death in their home. Their son, Nick, who's 32, charged with two counts of first degree murder, special circumstances, which means the death penalty is technically on the table. The DI hasn't confirmed either way. Nick pled not guilty, no bail. He had Alan Jackson, huge defense name, as his attorney initially. And then Jackson walked on January 7th because the money allegedly never came. So that's the dots that many of us have came to connect, allegedly. He didn't describe it as money. It was, what did he say? It was circumstances. It was something of that nature. He didn't directly say, hey, buddy, baby, I got your money. Don't you worry, said no, that's not how it went.
That that wasn't how it went at all. He was an ODB.
So Jackson Wang, then he gets a public defender.
Then in June, his civil lawyers go into probate court with this petition, and it is aggressive. They want the distribution, he says was due on his birthday in 2023, on his 30th birthday, plus the interest that money has earned since then. They want the commissary funded. They want a court to declare these distributions mandatory. They want damages from the trustee for breach, and the part, most of the coverage, skipped right over. They want the second half too, the money he wasn't supposed to get until 35 All of it, right?
Three questions. Why didn't he get it? Was it legal that he didn't? And should he get it now? We have to address this from a legal perspective, not necessarily our gut that tells us, lock him away, close the door, turn off the oxygen to the bill. Oh, that's, that's me. That's me.
So, the trust, let's go through, and I'd love to get your thoughts in the comment section on Substack and YouTube as we work our way through this. The links are in the description. So, the trust, this thing is almost insultingly simple when you actually read it. It's called the Nick Reiner Children's Trust. His parents set it up in 1993, the year he was born, just his money, him as the sole beneficiary, and the instructions are, according to the petition, unambiguous, half at 30, the rest at 35 Not if he's doing well, not if the trustee feels like it, or anybody else, for that matter. The filing calls these payouts mandatory and unconditional. You can have trust like that. That's why it's not always a great idea to set up trust like that, because the person that you're setting it up for at 3, isn't exactly the same person at 30, and there's no way to really predict the future.