Today should focus on the testimony of the defendant’s sister, Khazar Momeni.
Khazar Momeni has said on the stand that her brother Nima Momeni never told her about what happened after her brother left her apartment with Bob Lee.
"I don't think it was my place to ask that question," said Khazar, about finding out what happened to Bob Lee.
Khazar describes a chill night (days before Bob Lee's killing) including alcohol and cocaine and friends over until 4 a.m. “It wasn't a crazy night. We drank a little bit and maybe a little bit of cocaine...Not much, I remember that night pretty well.”
At one point that night Khazar texted her brother: “Did you take the rock that was left at my house? I had got that to last me a month. I can't keep paying for blow and give it to people.”
When asked about this text and another about him actin crazy, the prosecutor has now asked if this was an indication that her brother was using lots of cocaine. Khazar says on the stand that he was not taking lots of Cocaine over the weekend.
When asked who was at a gathering at her house with Bob Lee, Khazar says: “I have to say there names...I don't feel comfortable giving out people’s names.”
“He came with the drug dealer," she said about Bob Lee and his allegedly dealer Jeremy Boivin, who Khazar had not met. The party, where everyone was using cocaine and drinking, broke up around a.m. "He brought me a big tank of nitrus" and GHB, she said of Boivin.
Khazar says she had never done GHB, the date rape drug, and didn't see anyone take it. Boivin put a bottle of GHB on her counter and accidentally left it there.
"Did you enjoy spending time with Jeremy that morning," asks the prosecutor, to which Khazar says only that she was "very high.”
"When it starts to break up, did you go somewhere with Jeremy," asks the prosecutor. "Yes we drove around and he asked me to come see his place," she replies.
(Khazar was eventually retrieved in a daze from Jeremy's the afternoon before Lee's killing and may have told her brother she was assaulted at Jeremy's house.)
Khazar says Jeremy and her went to the beach and then went to Jeremy's apartment on April 3. She invited a friend too. Bob Lee, Khazar, Jeremy and others had been partying at this point all nigh and into the afternoon.
At the apartment Khazar and Boivin were alone and she took LSD and she took a drink with GHB in it. "I thought I could trust him. I have gathering at my house all the time and no one gets drugged," she said, adding that she did not know the dosing of GHB.
An hour or two later Lee arrived and a friend of his joined. Khazar says at that point she was feeling the drugs a bit. "GHB first starts to relax you and slowly puts you out, so I was pretty relaxed at that point," she said. She only felt a little bit of the LSD.
At one point that morning, Khazar asked her brother if she and Jeremy could use her brother's boat.
Before Khazar is asked about texts between her and her husband plastic surgeon husband, Dino Elyassnia, the defense confers with the judge and prosecution.
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It appears that Khazar is reluctant to speak about the texts between her and her husband during the early morning she had a party at one of her two apartment's in the Millenium Tower.
At the April 3 party at Jeremy Boivin's—where Khazar was later found nearly nude after taking GHB—Bob Lee was asked to leave, along with his friend, by his alleged dealer Boivin.
Khazar says that after Bob Lee left with his friend, Khazar felt better because Bo, Lee's friend, was being rude to her. Her friend had just arrived as well.
Then Khazar and her friend took GHB. "Let's take another shot of GHB," she said, adding that she was not sure if Jeremy Boivin took any.
Khazar said that Boivin was making the GHB drinks behind their backs. She took three shots in all.
Khazar is looking visibly uncomfortable retelling this story. Her eyes are downcast and she is not meeting the eyes of the prosecutor asking questions.
Some time after taking these drugs she was going in and out of consciousness. “Twice I woke up and couldn't move my body.”
She woke up face down next to her friend and Jeremy came into the room with little red shorts on and Khazar started crying.
"I started crying to Jeremy and [ said] that he didn't do anything to me and to please let me go," she recalled.
"It's very hard for girls to prove they were raped. Some wake up between and some don't," she says about GHB.
She says he wouldn't let her use her phone after she had woken up. "I didn't know what coutnry I was in," she said. "With the help of my friend I dropped a pin" showing her family where she was. Then she called her brother who came to find her.
"He was shaking me, saying you can't get me into trouble," she said of Jeremy Boivin.
"I woke up twice and he pulled down my pants and slapped my
," Khazar said of Jeremy Boivin. "I was scared. I knew something wrong was happening...he's a predator.”
Once Nima Momeni picked up his sister at Boivin's, she told him what she remembered had happened, which was that Boivn had slapped her
. "He was very calm and collected. He just wanted to know what had happened. He asked me if anyone sexually assaulted me.”
Once back at her home, Khazar says that Boivin came over to get his water bottle full of GHB back.“The drug dealer wanted his GHB really bad,” she said. Nima Momeni told Boivin: “I should have had six cops waiting for you” to Jeremy, who said "Lets go down stairs and fight.”
The last question before lunch break, posed by prosecutor to Khazar was: “Did you see them doing drugs together?”
If the DA has evidence that Nima Momeni and Jeremy Boivin were causally taking drugs after Boivin alleged assault Khazar, it could undermine her version of events and the defense’s claims that Boivin was the target of Momeni’s ire.
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