Nima Momeni’s sister charged with DUI, hit-and-run after San Francisco crash
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — The sister of Bob Lee’s accused killer is in her own legal trouble after she was allegedly involved in a hit-and-run crash in San Francisco.
Prosecutors charged Khazar Momeni with driving under the influence of drugs, hit-and-run driving, and possession of nitrous oxide, the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office told KRON4 on Friday. She pleaded not guilty to all charges during a February 26 arraignment.
A judge ordered Khazar Momeni, 38, to return to court on April 17 for a pre-trial conference.
Nitrous oxide can be used as a recreational party drug, according to the Alcohol and Drug Foundation. “Inhaling nitrous oxide produces a rapid rush of euphoria and feeling of floating or excitement for a short period of time,” the ADF wrote.
The charges stem from a Nov. 27, 2023 crash on Geary Street near Larkin Street at 11:08 a.m. San Francisco Police Department officers arrested Khazar Momeni and booked her into the same jail where her brother is behind bars.
Khazar Momeni is slated to deliver key testimony at her brother’s upcoming murder trial. Nima Momeni is accused of stabbing Cash App founder Bob Lee to death near the Bay Bridge on April 4, 2023. He has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder.
On Friday, a judge denied a change of venue request from Nima Momeni’s attorneys who sought to have his trial moved out of San Francisco. Attorneys said Lee’s popular status in the tech industry and photos published of their client in his jail cell could taint the jury pool. The judge disagreed, and set a trial date for May 20.
Khazar Momeni is currently out of custody. She is married to a wealthy plastic surgeon and she is well-known in San Francisco’s elite social scene, Rolling Stone magazine reported. “If there was a Real Housewives of San Francisco, she would have a leading role,” Saam Zangeneh, one of Nima Momeni’s lawyers, told Rolling Stone.
Investigators said Nima Momeni, 38, of Emeryville, attacked Lee because he was angry about Lee’s “inappropriate” behavior with Momeni’s sister. Lee and Khazar Momeni attended several parties together in the hours leading up to his violent death.
At one of the parties, cocaine, GHB, LSD, and “whippets” were used by party guests, according to testimony. Khazar Momeni took three doses of a “date rape drug” known as GHB and passed out, a police officer testified.
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The tech mogul and Nima Momeni were seen leaving the sister’s apartment at Millennium Tower around midnight. Two hours later, surveillance cameras recorded Lee bleeding, stumbling down a sidewalk, and desperately searching for help.
District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said the accused killer was armed with a kitchen knife when he left the tower with Lee. Once he had Lee in a dark and isolated area under the Bay Bridge, Nima Momeni stabbed Lee in the heart, and left him dying in the street, according to prosecutors.
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