Tech consultant convicted of second-degree murder in 2023 stabbing death of Cash App founder
Nima Momeni, the man convicted of murdering Cash App founder Bob Lee, has been sentenced to 16 years to life.
Momeni, 42, has been in San Francisco’s county jail since late April of 2023, after he was arrested in connection with the stabbing death of Lee, who had created the mobile payment service and was serving as the chief product officer of the cryptocurrency MobileCoin at the time of his death.
Family members of both men and Momeni himself spoke during the sentencing hearing, SFGate reports.
Lee’s daughter, Scout Lee, who was 14 when her father was killed, told the judge her world was “shattered” after her father was killed.
“Mr Momeni, you didn’t just take my dad that day,” Scout said. “You took my best friend.”
Momeni’s mother, Mahnaz Tayarani, implored the judge to look beyond her son’s crime and base his sentence on the totality of her son’s life.
“I am here because I love my son,” Tayarani said. “A person’s life can hold more than the worst moment of his life. Nima is not perfect. No human being is.”
Momeni, clad in an orange jail uniform, told the judge: “It was never my intention to see anyone hurt or suffer … I’m truly…
