Attorney gives son $4 million birthday party

[dalton99a]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/nation-now/2017/12/11/attorney-gives-son-4-million-birthday-party/942727001/
Attorney gives son $4 million birthday party
Monica Lopez, Corpus Christi | Published 6:53 p.m. ET Dec. 11, 2017

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Personal injury attorney Thomas J. Henry knows how to throw a party.

Just last year he spent $6 million on his daughter Maya's quinceañera. This weekend, he made sure his son's 18th birthday didn't fall short.

The party for Thomas Henry Jr. was held at Hotel Discotheque lounge in San Antonio. The event had a Gatsby-mixed-with-burlesque theme complete with showgirls, aerial performers, art installations and contortionists. Celebrity production designer Dylan Marer and his team from Hollywood produced the event, a media release from Lawlor Media Group reads...

The star of the party, who sat on a throne-like chair when he wasn't dancing, was given a fully loaded blue Ferrari, an IWC Portugieser Tourbillion watch and a custom-made painting from Alec Monopoly.


The Henry family stands with Rumer Willis, Lance Bass and Michael Turchin. (Photo: Contributed photo/Jay Layno)

[lpbk2713]

1. It amounted to Daddy's way of saying ...

"Look what a punk my kid is."

[world wide wally]

2. I sure hope the poor kid doesn't have to pay any inheritance tax when he gets it

[dalton99a]

3. +1

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

5. Exactly.

That would be so unfair.

[Egnever]

4. Hey he is sexually assaulting that girl!

His dad is in definite need of a tax break.

[Initech]

7. I'm sure the IRS would love to know his shadier business practices.

I would be willing to bet that Ferrari wasn't bought with his own money.

[msongs]

14. and the guy in the white jacket as well nt

[TeamPooka]

6. So he loves his son $2 million dollars less than his daughter.

If it was me at 16 I would have been "Put the $4 million in a Goldmann Sachs account for me to invest."
Now I would blow it on art.

[dalton99a]

9. Quinceaneras ain't cheap

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3483958/Is-America-s-luckiest-teenager-15-year-old-girl-thrown-lavish-6-MILLION-Quincea-era-performances-Nick-Jonas-Pitbull-make-Kardashians-artist-pictures-Michelle-Obama-s-photographer.html

[pfitz59]

8. WTF - Its his money

Let him burn it as he will...

[linuxman]

10. Good for him.

I didn't know personal injury law was so lucrative.

Sounds like an awesome party.

[fescuerescue]

11. I'm actually ok with $4m being blown fooishly

It just goes to all the people putting on the party, the autoworkers who made the car, the entertainers, food service people.

Obviously some of it goes from wealthy people to other wealthy people, but there's alot just going to regular folks pockets too.

This is better than the $4m just being stashed in some foreign bank account and not getting taxed.

As for the mental well being of the kid. Well thats a different story.

[YOHABLO]

12. It's a fucking birthday for god's sake; he's what 18? What's daddy going to do for 19?

[SFnomad]

13. With a brand new Ferarri like that, the kid might not even make it to 19 n/t

[Ilsa]

16. Car salemen I have talked to say the same,

but their stories were about kids getting killed in new Corvettes.

Teens generally don't have the judgment for driving cars like that safely.

[VOX]

15. Believe it or not, Thomas J. Henry is a Democrat and supports Democratic causes.

Politics = strange bedfellows dept.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/thomas-j-henry-plans-star-studded-after-party-for-texas-democratic-convention-300286313.html
Thomas J. Henry Plans Star-Studded After Party For Texas Democratic Convention
SAN ANTONIO, June 16, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- San Antonio attorney Thomas J. Henry is throwing a private star-studded after party for attendees of the Texas Democratic Convention this Friday.
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Thomas J. Henry is a high-powered attorney and well-known philanthropist who regularly supports Democratic causes. "I am happy to support the convention after party," Thomas J. Henry stated. "This is a celebration of our democratic values!"
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[JHB]

19. It's still a wild extravagance, but better a party...

...and funding to Democratic state orgs than being a "thrifty" RWer who spends just as freely, but on lobbyists and ratfucking ops like Veritas.

[Dorian Gray]

17. Wow...

the humility isn't strong with that family.

[Thor_MN]

18. Well, damn, the guy's got expenses. Let's give him a tax cut.

[democratisphere]

20. The wealthiest are disgraceful and disgusting creatures.

Obscene.

[crazycatlady]

21. At least the money's being spent

And not sitting somewhere in the Caymans.

[WillowTree]

23. That's what I was thinking. Keeping it moving in the economy, anyway.

[alarimer]

22. Hadn't heard about that ambulance-chaser in a while.

He is everything you hate about attorneys and then some.

(Now of course #notallattorneys, but this one exemplifies the bad).

For all the money he claims to get plaintiffs, most of it actually goes to him.

[brooklynite]

24. Wealth envy is never pretty

I know a wealthy lawyer who threw a huge 50th Anniversary Party for him and his wife. (Peter Yarrow wrote a song for them). They've raised millions for Democratic candidates and progressive causes.