SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Jeremy Boivin’s identify got here up almost day-after-day of Nima Momeni’s homicide trial. Testimony about Boivin solid him as a sinister key determine connecting Money App founder Bob Lee along with his killer and Khazar, Momeni’s sister.
Prosecutors mentioned revenge was the motive behind the April 4, 2023 slaying beneath the Bay Bridge. Momeni was an over-protective large brother who believed Boivin sexually assaulted his married sister, and Lee had “inappropriate” relationship together with her, prosecutors mentioned.
Momeni testified that Boivin was a “predator.” However Boivin by no means testified for the jury trial. He spoke out for the primary time in an interview with Dateline that aired over the weekend.
“Bottom line is, I didn’t do it. There was no sexual assault at any point,” Boivin advised Dateline. He admitted to slapping Khazar on her buttocks, however denied doing something sexual towards her will.
Lee, 43, died from a stab wound by way of his coronary heart. Momeni was convicted by a jury of second-degree homicide. Khazar was the motive behind the killing, police and prosecutors mentioned.
Khazar Momeni walks out of a San Francisco courtroom together with her mom on Oct. 22, 2024. (KRON4 Picture)
Lee based the corporate Money App, labored for Google as a software program engineer, and served as an government for MobileCoin. Khazar was amongst dozens of witnesses who took the stand for Momeni’s 2024 trial in San Francisco Superior Court docket.
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Khazar testified that Boivin gave her LSD and a “date rape drug” GHB, as a result of she handed out on his mattress. “I was becoming more and more vulnerable,” she mentioned. Khazar advised jurors the Boivin pulled her pants down and sexually assaulted her on April 3, 2023.
After she wakened face-down on his mattress, Khazar cried as she known as her brother for assist and requested him to drive her dwelling to Millennium Tower. Khazar admitted that she invited Boivin over to her luxurious house in Millennium Tower — across the identical time that Lee was stabbed to loss of life — as a result of she wished extra medication from Boivin.
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Boivin advised Dateline that he developed an intimate “physical relationship” with Khazar for “many months” after Lee’s loss of life. He additionally claims Khazar known as him to apologize for accusing him in entrance of jurors and information reporters.
Boivin was beforehand convicted of drug fees unrelated to the Momeni case. For the homicide trial, he was most continuously referred to within the courtroom as “the drug dealer” by witnesses and attorneys.
Lee’s buddies testified that the tech titan used medication together with cocaine and whippets at events along with his massive circle of buddies. The sufferer’s tech pal, Carlos Whitt, advised Dateline, “Bob was just built different. He could do the parties, but would also be one of the number one engineers on the planet.”
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Lee spent his final three nights alive partying with buddies round San Francisco, together with: Khazar, Boivin, and a nightclub DJ, Bo Mohazzabi. Khazar exchanged flirtatious textual content messages with the tech mogul and attended events with him, trial proof revealed.
Protection lawyer Saam Zangeneh speaks to reporters on the Corridor of Justice for Momeni’s homicide trial on Dec. 3, 2024, in San Francisco. (AP Picture/Godofredo A. Vásquez)
Momeni’s protection attorneys mentioned Boivin was Lee’s drug vendor. Court docket paperwork obtained by KRON4 present the 2 males had been additionally shut buddies. Khazar testified that she had by no means met Boivin till two days earlier than the murder, when Lee launched her to him. Khazar admitted that she closely makes use of celebration medication, together with whippets.
Prosecutors mentioned Momeni was enraged with Lee as a result of he launched Khazar to Boivin and left her alone with him. Assistant District Lawyer Omid Talai advised Dateline that the motive doesn’t rely on whether or not Boivin truly sexually assaulted Momeni’s sister. As a substitute, the motive is dependent upon Momeni’s perception that the assault occurred, Talai mentioned.
Nima Momeni walks into the courtroom for his arraignment in San Francisco, Might 2, 2023. (Gabrielle Lurie/San Francisco Chronicle through AP, Pool, File)
“Khazar is the engine that made this whole thing happen,” San Francisco Police Division Sgt. Brent Dittmer advised Dateline.
In September of 2024, simply weeks earlier than the trial started, Boivin advised Sgt. Dittmer that if he had been pressured to testify, he wouldn’t be prepared to say a lot, courtroom paperwork present. Boivin mentioned he met Lee in 2019 at a nightclub and so they grew to become “good friends.”
Boivin didn’t know that their telephone name was recorded when he talked to Dittmer on the telephone.
“Did you ever provide drugs to Bob?” the sergeant requested. “I can’t talk about that,” Boivin answered. Boivin mentioned Lee was “always in a good mood, and trying to help people out. I’d trust him with anyone, anything in my life. I’d leave my cats with him. He’s a 100% a solid dude. He’d take care of whatever you needed.”
Boivin mentioned Khazar’s sexual assault allegations took a toll on his life. He mentioned, “I feel really upset about it. It’s taken a toll on my life for sure. It’s outrageously not true,” courtroom paperwork state.
Bob Lee’s ex-wife, Krista Lee, and their daughter enter the courtroom on Dec. 2, 2024 in San Francisco. (AP Picture / Godofredo A. Vásquez)
Lee’s household described Khazar’s testimony as “fabricated” to color a rosy image of Momeni earlier than jurors reached a verdict.
Momeni’s 5 attorneys had been paid by Khazar and her rich husband to construct his protection case. Protection lawyer Saam Zangeneh mentioned his shopper’s sister had zero credibility as a result of she’s a drug addict.
Lee’s ex-wife advised Dateline that she is going to by no means forgive Momeni, in addition to Momeni’s relations who she believes helped him after the homicide. Krista Lee mentioned the toughest a part of shedding Bob Lee is seeing the ache of their two youngsters’s eyes. Her youngsters deserved to have their father of their lives, and Bob Lee ought to have died “an old man,” Krista Lee advised Dateline.
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“The murderer robbed this world of a great mind,” Krista Lee mentioned.
Momeni is dealing with as much as 16 years in jail when he’s sentenced on Might 16. He stays locked in a San Francisco jail cell.
