Cash App founder Bob Lee's murderer was sentenced to 16 years to life in prison

According to CNN, a San Francisco court sentenced tech consultant Nima Momeni to 16 years to life in prison on Tuesday after being convicted of stabbing to death Cash App founder Bob Lee. In December 2024, the jury found him guilty of second-degree murder, rejecting the claim of self-defense.

Momeni has been held since his arrest following the incident in 2023, and the judge denied his request for a retrial before sentencing; his lawyer plans to appeal. Prosecutors stated that Momeni was angry because Lee introduced his sister to a drug dealer and stabbed Lee three times with a knife, one of which pierced the heart. Lee subsequently died in the hospital at the age of 43. Lee had founded Cash App and was serving as the Chief Product Officer of cryptocurrency company MobileCoin at the time of his death. Bob Lee was fatally stabbed in San Francisco in April 2023.