Nima Momeni found guilty of murdering Cash App CEO Bob Lee

A San Francisco jury found tech consultant Nima Momeni guilty of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of Cash App founder Bob Lee. 

Jurors took seven days to deliver their verdict against Momeni in the April 4, 2023, death of Lee, a beloved tech mogul who was found staggering on a deserted downtown street, dripping a trail of blood and calling for help. Lee, 43, later died at a hospital.

Prosecutors argued that Momeni took Lee’s life on the 300 block of Main Street in the ritzy Rincon Hill neighborhood after hearing that his drug-dealing friend plied his younger sister, Khazar, with GHB and other drugs and sexually assaulted her.

‘One person called 911 pleading for help, saying somebody stabbed me,’ said Dane Reinstedt, assistant district attorney, adding that the other person never called police or told anyone what happened that night until the trial.

But defense attorneys claimed Lee was on a multi-day drug bender of cocaine and ketamine that made him agitated and violent, and that he attacked the defendant with a knife.

They said Momeni was forced to use his Krav Maga martial arts skills in the early morning hours of April 4, 2023, after ‘making a ‘bad joke’ that upset Lee – and did not realize he had stabbed him.

Lee’s brother Timothy Oliver Lee said the family was satisfied with the verdict, reported CBS News Bay Area. 

‘We we’re happy with the result today. We’re happy that Nima Momeni won’t be on the streets, no longer has the opportunity to harm anyone else in this world,’ he said. ‘The verdict of murder two will put him away for a long time.’ 

A conviction of murder in the second degree carries a sentence of 16 years to life in this case. 

Lee had created mobile payment service Cash App and was the chief product officer of the cryptocurrency MobileCoin when he died. 

He had moved to Miami from the San Francisco Bay Area, where his ex-wife Krista Lee lives with their two children.