Arraignment Set for LPL Network Firm Employee Charged With Double Murder

The employee at LPL-affiliated RIA firm Pence Wealth Management accused of fatally stabbing a co-worker and the co-worker's roommate in 2022 is scheduled to be arraigned Friday morning, according to a court website.

Prosecutors charged Ramy Hany Mounir Fahim, of Irvine, California, with killing co-worker Griffin Cuomo, 23, and Cuomo's roommate, Jonathan Bahm, 23, at their Anaheim apartment.

The arraignment is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. Friday in Superior Court of California for Orange County, the court's website indicates. The defendant has been scheduled for arraignment previously.

Fahim, who was 26 in April 2022 when the stabbings occurred, was charged with "special circumstances murders" in the case; the special circumstances of lying in wait and multiple murders make him eligible for the death penalty, prosecutors said in a press release after his arrest.

He was charged with two counts of murder, and two enhancements each of lying in wait, multiple murders, and the personal use of a deadly weapon, the release says.

Fahim's LinkedIn profile describes him as a research associate at Pence.

"We send our heartfelt condolences to those impacted during this difficult time," an LPL spokesperson told ThinkAdvisor in April 2022.

Wrongful Death Suit

In October 2022, Cuomo's mother, Wendy Cuomo, filed a wrongful death civil lawsuit against Pence Wealth Management and its co-founders, Laila Pence and Dryden Pence. The suit also named as a defendant Advanced Management, which owned the apartment complex where the victims lived and were killed.

Among other contentions, the lawyer representing Wendy Cuomo alleged at the time that the Pence firm 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."

Raymond Boucher, the lawyer who filed the lawsuit on Cuomo's behalf, didn't immediately respond to an email seeking a status update on the case.

Online court information indicates a hearing in the case is scheduled for next week, with several motions to be considered, including a "motion for determination of good faith settlement."

Photo of Ramy Fahim: Anaheim Police Department