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Is the "Expand IT, Inc" on the LinkedIn profile the only evidence that the "alleged killer also works in tech and is a man Lee purportedly knew."

There's comments is this thread of amazing journalism but the LLC shows as inactive on the Division of CA website (entity 201008110204) and the Expand IT website itself is dead. For all we know, this is a Lyft or Uber driver. Unless I'm missing some SFPD statement known to the journalist?

EDIT: got an old filling; see njstraub608's comment. My mistake

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Doing a little research myself shows that he was test savey enough to know to get privacy on his, expired, website, was endorsed on LinkedIn for Cloud Computing, Virtualization by other Tech CEOs and Staff Architects, gave recommendations on LinkedIn for architects (including one at AWS) who display those recommendations on LI and say that they were clients of his, at one point was hiring for hiring for front end engineers, was keeping up to date on OS updates as far back as windows 8/9, and he clearly knows the lingo of IT.

Could it be an uber driver or lyft driver? Sure. But it seems like someone who has run a consulting business for many years in the tech space.

Two quick things:

First, you apparently missed this paragraph:

Rather, Lee and Momeni were portrayed by police as being familiar with one another. In the wee hours of April 4, they were purportedly driving together through downtown San Francisco in a car registered to the suspect.

Doesn't sound to me like the reporter is just speculating based on the LinkedIn profile.

Secondly, I'm pretty sure you have the wrong filing. The LinkedIn profile says "Inc", not "LLC", so I think it's probably file #4776106, which is still active, and registered with an address in Emeryville, which is where police were headed to arrest Momeni.

I was going off the 2010 date but you could be right. I didn't mean to jump to conclusions; just seems like I'm missing some details that leads to the author's convictions. Probably I'm missing the police portrayals mentioned in the article.

The 911 call data was for an address, he likely linked said address to tax data to get the property owner then did LinkedIn search. Additionally could have used arrest data. 911 and arrest in my city don’t have names but by linkage via methods named it’s possible.

At most he used a radius for the 911 call to check possible names, and had a contact at SFPD or the courts to confirm once he had a name.

The LLC isn't inactive, you just found the wrong one. EXPAND IT INC (4776106) is registered to the proper address. Guessing the website is down from traffic.

Good find. My mistake

It’s pretty obviously not. The answers are in the article. The police claims they were driving together. You don’t usually drive together with someone you don’t know late at night.

I mean Uber?

Reading the article is always an option.

> Rather, Lee and Momeni were portrayed by police as being familiar with one another. In the wee hours of April 4, they were purportedly driving together through downtown San Francisco in a car registered to the suspect.

The website is possibly down from all the other amateur internet sleuth traffic out there -- there are fairly recent snapshots on the Internet Archive.

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