SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — For opening statements of the Bob Lee murder trial Monday, prosecutors dubbed the defendant, Nima Momeni, as a “wannabe tough guy big brother,” and portrayed him as a knife-wielding murderer.
Momeni is charged with murdering Lee on April 4, 2023 under San Francisco’s Bay Bridge.
Lee was an executive for cryptocurrency company MobileCoin and the founder of Cash App. He spent his last day alive partying with Momeni’s younger sister, Khazar, hanging out in hotel rooms, and drinking at a private club known as The Battery, attorneys said.
Momeni, 40, was convinced that something “inappropriate” had happened between his sister and the tech mogul, prosecutors told the jury.
On the afternoon of April 3, 2023, Lee left Khazar at a drug dealer’s apartment and returned to his hotel room with a friend to talk about new tech ideas, Assistant District Attorney Omid Talai said. Around 9 p.m., Momeni called Lee to interrogate him, Talai said, and the phone call was “aggressive, awkward, (and) strange.”