SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- The killer of San Francisco tech mogul Bob Lee filed a $17-million lawsuit against newspapers and other media outlets for coverage of his highly-publicized case. Convicted murderer Nima Momeni is suing the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Standard, San Francisco Bay Area ph otographer Paul Kuroda, the New York Post's publisher, and 100 unnamed defendants. Kuroda, a former Pulitzer Prize finalist, shot photographs of Momeni smiling in his jail cell leading up to the 2024 murder trial. The New York Post published the photographs with a headline describing the images as "bone-chilling." Bob Lee In court documents filed in court December 1, Momeni accused news media outlets of defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, violating his civil rights, professional negligence, invasion of privacy, and fraud. A jury found Momeni guilty of second-degree murder in December of 2024 for the death of Lee, a father-of-two and founder of Cash App. Nearly a year later, Momeni has never spent a night in prison. His sentencing hearing has been delayed several times, in-part because he hired new defense attorneys. The 41-year-old inmate lists his current address as San Francisco County Jail #2. Nima Momeni (Gabrielle Lurie /San Francisco Chronicle via AP, Pool, File) He is scheduled to return to court on December 12 to set a date for his sentencing hearing. Momeni is facing 16 years to life in prison. Lee, 43, worked for Google as a software engineer and served as an executive for MobileCoin. On April 4, 2023, he was stabbed through the heart under the Bay Bridge. Lee left behind a blood trail and called 911 begging for help until he collapsed on Main Street. Prosecutors said Momeni ambushed the tech mogul under the bridge to get revenge. Momeni's sister, Khazar, testified that she was sexually assaulted by Lee’s drug dealer on the day before Lee was slain. Momeni was an "overprotective big brother" who blamed Lee for what happened to Khazar, according to prosecutors. Khazar Momeni walks out of a San Francisco courtroom with her mother on Oct. 22, 2024. (KRON4 Photo) Detectives found a text message from Khazar on Lee's phone asking if he was OK six hours after the stabbing. Khazar wrote, "Just wanted to make sure your doing ok. Cause I know nima came wayyyyyy down hard on you. And thank you for being such a classy man handling it with class,” court documents show. Surveillance cameras recorded Lee and Momeni leaving Khazar’s luxury condo at Millennium Tower together just 30 minutes before the stabbing. Nima Momeni testifies on Nov. 13, 2024. (Courtroom sketch by Vicki Behringer) Momeni testified that he acted in self-defense after Lee "blew up" with anger over a "bad joke." The joke, according to Momeni, was about the tech mogul spending time in strip clubs instead of with his family. On the stand, he told jurors, “I made a bad joke. I said, 'If it was my last night in town, I’d go hang out with my family instead of f**king around in strip clubs.' It set him off." Police found a knife near the crime scene with Momeni’s DNA on the handle and Lee’s DNA on the blade. Lee's family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the killer and his family for allegedly trying to cover-up the murder while police were still trying to identify a suspect. ...read more read less