The next hearing for Ramy Hany Mounir Fahim, the employee at LPL Network RIA firm Pence Wealth Management arrested last April as a suspect in a double homicide, has been scheduled for 8:30 a.m. on June 2, according to the website of the Superior Court of California for Orange County.
The pretrial hearing will be held at the court's North Justice Center in Fullerton, in room N3. The new date was set Friday during another hearing, according to the website.
Fahim, of Irvine, California, was charged with special circumstances murders for allegedly stabbing his co-worker and the co-worker's roommate to death in their Anaheim apartment, according to Todd Spitzer, district attorney for Orange County.
The "special circumstances of lying in wait and multiple murders" make Fahim "eligible for the death penalty," Spitzer said last year.
Fahim was charged with eight felony counts, including two counts of murder and two enhancements each of lying in wait, multiple murders and the personal use of a deadly weapon, Spitzer said in a news release.
Fahim is accused of stabbing his Pence co-worker, Griffin Cuomo, 23, and then stabbing Cuomo's roommate, Jonathan Bahm, 23, in their Katella Avenue apartment in Anaheim at around 6:30 a.m. on April 19.
Pence Named in Separate Complaint
In October, a wrongful death complaint was filed in the Orange County Superior Court by Los Angeles law firm Boucher LLP on behalf of Cuomo's mother, Wendy Cuomo, naming Pence Wealth Management; Laila Pence, PWM president; Dryden Pence, PWM chief investment officer; and Advanced Management, owner of the Stadium House Apartment Complex, where the victims lived, as defendants.
Fahim had a "long history of mental health issues and a documented propensity for violence," Boucher said in announcing the complaint. PWM had been "repeatedly warned that Fahim had a tendency toward violence, but they overlooked it, allegedly due to Laila Pence's relationship with Fahim's mother, Nabila Makram, the former Egyptian Minister of Immigration and Expatriate Affairs," according to Boucher.
Despite not being a resident of Stadium House, Fahim was allowed into the building and "loitered in the complex's common areas for more than six hours," according to Boucher.
"This predictable, yet completely unchecked, act of violence is the product of Pence Wealth and Stadium House prioritizing their financial interests while discounting the value of human life," according to Raymond P. Boucher, the law firm's founder and attorney for Wendy Cuomo.
"When the safety and life of others is at stake, business should not go on as usual," Boucher continued. "Pence Wealth and Stadium House had duties to protect Griffin and Jonathan from Fahim. Their conscious failure to do so in order to improve their bottom lines has robbed both young men of their futures and their families of their support."
Griffin Cuomo was a 23-year-old recent graduate of the Chapman University School of Communication, according to the law firm.
"The morning of his murder, he woke up around 6 a.m. to get ready to go to work at Pence Wealth," Boucher said. "As he did every morning, Griffin texted his mother, Wendy, a photograph of his outfit for work that day. Wendy told Griffin he looked handsome. Neither expected this would be their final conversation."
