Nima Momeni Convicted in Homicide of Money App Founder Bob Lee

Nima Momeni, the previous tech guide on the middle of the Bob Lee murder case, has been discovered responsible of the Money App founder’s demise.

On Tuesday, after deliberating for seven days, a jury acquitted Momeni of the cost of 1st-degree homicide however discovered him responsible of 2nd-degree homicide, NBC reports. He faces 16 years to life in jail, because of this.

Lee, who was 43 on the time of his demise, was discovered bleeding from a number of stab wounds on the streets of San Francisco one morning final April. He later died at a hospital.

Within the days after his demise, San Francisco’s elite seized on the homicide as a chance to decry native crime, with many presuming that the tech government had been killed by a low-level felony. Elon Musk instantly used Lee’s demise to make a political level, posting on social media that “violent crime in SF is horrific and even when attackers are caught, they’re typically launched instantly.”

Nevertheless, it was soon discovered that Lee was really attacked by Momeni—one other white-collar tech employee. Previous to his arrest, Momeni ran an organization known as Broaden IT, based mostly within the Bay Space, which was described as an IT consulting enterprise.

Prosecutors allege that the killing befell after a dispute between Lee and Momeni over Momeni’s sister, Khazar Momeni, whom Lee additionally knew. Prosecutors declare that Momeni was under the impression that Khazar had been sexually assaulted by a person that Lee launched her to.

On the night time of the homicide, Lee and Momeni frolicked at Khazar’s condominium, earlier than leaving in Nima’s BMW round 2 AM. Prosecutors say that Momeni then drove Lee to an remoted spot and stabbed him thrice, together with as soon as within the coronary heart.

Momeni’s legal professionals instructed a distinct story, claiming that Momeni had acted in self-defense and that it was Lee who, in a drug-fueled state, reacted poorly to a joke Momeni had made at his expense and pulled a knife on him. Momeni claimed {that a} battle had ensued, with each males struggling for the knife, after which Lee left the car. He instructed the jury that he didn’t notice that Lee had been stabbed.

“We expect justice was achieved right here right this moment,” Lee’s brother, Tim Oliver Lee, was quoted as saying. “What issues right this moment is that we had a responsible verdict and Nima Momeni goes away for a really very long time.”