Nima Momeni Convicted in Murder of Cash App Founder Bob Lee

Nima Momeni, the erstwhile tech advisor astatine the halfway of the Bob Lee execution case, has been recovered blameworthy of the Cash App founder’s death.

On Tuesday, aft deliberating for 7 days, a assemblage acquitted Momeni of the complaint of 1st-degree execution but recovered him blameworthy of 2nd-degree murder, NBC reports. He faces 16 years to beingness successful prison, arsenic a result.

Lee, who was 43 astatine the clip of his death, was recovered bleeding from aggregate stab wounds connected the streets of San Francisco 1 greeting past April. He aboriginal died astatine a hospital.

In the days aft his death, San Francisco’s elite seized connected the execution arsenic an accidental to decry section crime, with galore presuming that the tech enforcement had been killed by a low-level criminal. Elon Musk instantly utilized Lee’s decease to marque a governmental point, posting connected societal media that “violent transgression successful SF is horrific and adjacent if attackers are caught, they are often released immediately.”

However, it was soon discovered that Lee was really attacked by Momeni—another white-collar tech worker. Prior to his arrest, Momeni ran a institution called Expand IT, based successful the Bay Area, which was described arsenic an IT consulting business.

Prosecutors allege that the sidesplitting took spot aft a quality betwixt Lee and Momeni implicit Momeni’s sister, Khazar Momeni, whom Lee besides knew. Prosecutors assertion that Momeni was under the impression that Khazar had been sexually assaulted by a antheral that Lee introduced her to.

On the nighttime of the murder, Lee and Momeni spent clip astatine Khazar’s apartment, earlier leaving successful Nima’s BMW astir 2 AM. Prosecutors accidental that Momeni past drove Lee to an isolated spot and stabbed him 3 times, including erstwhile successful the heart.

Momeni’s lawyers told a antithetic story, claiming that Momeni had acted successful self-defense and that it was Lee who, successful a drug-fueled state, reacted poorly to a gag Momeni had made astatine his disbursal and pulled a weapon connected him. Momeni claimed that a combat had ensued, with some men struggling for the knife, aft which Lee near the vehicle. He told the assemblage that helium did not recognize that Lee had been stabbed.

“We deliberation justness was done present today,” Lee’s brother, Tim Oliver Lee, was quoted arsenic saying. “What matters contiguous is that we had a blameworthy verdict and Nima Momeni is going distant for a precise agelong time.”