Nick Reiner Was Owed $1.5 Million — His Parents Didn’t Pay. Now They’re Dead

**Tony Brueski** (0:00)
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**Tony Brueski** (0:07)
Nobody said it. Not the LAPD, not a single source close to the investigation. Since Rob and Michele Reiner were found dead in their Brentwood home in December, law enforcement has never publicly disclosed a motive for the killings.
Then on June 9th, Nick Reiner's own civil attorneys filed a 136-page probate petition that I would say, in my opinion, kind of does it for them.
I don't think they meant to. I think they were just trying to get their client his money. But what they put on paper is a date, a dollar amount, two people who reportedly controlled it, and two people who are dead. In any other case, that's page one of a motive brief.
So let's stop dancing around it. Let's take what's been publicly reported, lay the pieces next to each other, ask the question everybody's been thinking about, but nobody with a microphone has been willing to really say, did 1.5 million give Nick Reiner a reason to kill his parents?
Not saying it's right, but I'm saying, was that the carrot on the stick? But how is he going to get it if they're dead? Well, exactly, that's how he's going to get it. If they're dead, if they were the ones saying, we don't think you are capable of handling this right now. If that barrier is gone, the money is free. But Tony, he would be, how is he going to get it? If he's accused of killing them, if he gets caught killing them, he's an addict. That's two thoughts. Oftentimes, there ain't a lot of multi-dimensional 4D chess playing going on with addicts. It's pretty much barrier. How can we destroy that to get to what we want? There's not the thought process of, well, if I murder them, I might be wanted for murder. I might get caught in this scheme and I might never get the money. No, it's just if they're dead, I get the money. That whole, oh, I might destroy my exist. That part is missed in that equation in the addict's brain. So if you're stuck on that one, go, nah. No, that's, that's, it's not good reasoning. It's not good thinking. That's why it's addict thinking, but it's addict thinking with a carrot on a stick and it's directly in front of us. Now, nobody has to prove murder in a court. That's not part of the equation here. But juries certainly like it. Juries certainly like to latch on to something. And beyond just, he's a shitty human being. We know that going in.
But what makes him shittier is really the question. And this may be the answer. In my opinion, your thoughts in the comment section, there's no right or wrong here. I don't know for sure, but I'm going to examine this.
There's one legal path, just one, where Nick allegedly kills them and still keeps the money. His defense team is reportedly already on it. So let's start where any investigator would start, not with the suspect, not with the crime scene, with the money. According to the petition, Rob and Michele established an individual trust for Nick in 1993 with what his lawyers called unambiguous terms, half at 30, the rest at 35, mandatory and unconditional. His 30th birthday was September 14th, 2023 He reportedly never got paid. That's not a dispute about inheritance. According to his own filing, that money had reportedly already vested. It was his legally on a date when both of his parents were alive and in control of the trust. His lawyers own words at the mandatory distribution date, those funds reportedly ceased to be trust property. And the petition offers no explanation of why Rob and Michele didn't distribute it when they were alive. You can take a thousand guesses as to why they thought they were being responsible parents with a son that had been battling addiction his whole life. And at the moment he turned 30, was still living with them, had to come off a conservatorship not that long prior. We've talked about that in great detail on this channel.
And they were trying to not put something in front of him that would make him destroy his life even more than he already has. Now granted he got his allowance from them. They controlled that but $10,000 a month is very different than 1.5 million suddenly accessible in a bank account. $10,000 is a lot to destroy your life with. Trust me, it's far more than an addict should have access to. Certainly, perspective on realistic terms of money and money and paying and taking care of your addict's son. This is how it worked in their household. Good, bad, you can argue at 50 Ways to Tuesday. It is what it is. It's how they were trying to handle it and get by and keep everyone breathing.