Bob Lee Part 4: The Made-for-TV Murder Trial
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🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Nima Momeni's trial for murdering Bob Lee began in October 2024. Lee's killing, no longer a stand-in for random street crime, no longer fit neatly into the political zeitgeist. Instead, the tabloids latched onto the story for its salacious mix of drugs, violence and sex. Reporter Shawn Wen brings listeners inside the made-for-TV murder trial, which also served as a referendum on San Francisco.
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| 0:00.0 | Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, Radio News. |
| 0:09.5 | Previously on. |
| 0:11.7 | Tuesday. |
| 0:12.9 | Oh, San Francisco. |
| 0:14.4 | Go. |
| 0:14.8 | Let's speak back. |
| 0:15.9 | Nope. |
| 0:16.2 | Hey, it's the police. |
| 0:19.3 | Hey, who did this to you? |
| 0:20.7 | They're saying he took a kitchen knife from his sister's apartment to his car with Bob, got in the car, went somewhere else, and then attacked him. |
| 0:32.6 | It just didn't make sense. |
| 0:34.9 | Didn't make sense to me. |
| 0:36.0 | All of a sudden, his name became household word for the worst of reasons. |
| 0:40.1 | And it just pissed me off. |
| 0:47.7 | Nima Momeni's murder trial started on October 14, 2024, a year and a half after the killing. I was there for the entirety |
| 0:57.7 | of the trial. It would ultimately run for eight weeks. Nima showed up to court every day in a suit. |
| 1:07.9 | He was seated alongside a large group of defense attorneys. He listened intently and took notes. |
| 1:14.5 | If you didn't go in knowing he was on trial for murder, you might think he was one of the lawyers. |
| 1:20.0 | Well, he certainly doesn't seem, you know, sad the way he walks in. He struts in. I mean, he always struts in, you know, |
| 1:29.3 | kind of confident of himself. This is Paul Corota, a seasoned photojournalist in the Bay Area. |
| 1:36.4 | He took photos of Nima showing up at his arraignment with his chest puffed out and arm swinging. |
| 1:42.8 | He also took photos of Nima in his jail cell. |
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