The Record

In the early 1990s he says he helped move coronary-stent technique into Tehran: Johnson & Johnson hardware with French cardiologist Bernard Valeix, and that he paved the way for a young Iranian cardiologist, Massoud Ghasemi, to train at Scripps Clinic. In California he built needlestick-prevention companies, licensed a design, then spent three years proving in court that the lawyers charged with keeping the patent alive had not. The verdict is the easiest fact in the book. It is why the rest of the file exists. A man who already won against his own counsel is not an anonymous complainant. The public record already took him seriously once.

Four partners. Equal shares. Medical and laboratory goods. His mother, Farideh Kavesh, sat in the first board meeting as managing director with operating authority. The company made ELISA kits — thyroid, tumor markers, fertility, infectious disease — and later paper still calls it one of Iran’s first manufacturers of that platform. In 2018 and again in 2022 the attendance lists still print him at 250 shares. The signature column says by power of attorney. He is on the page. He is not in the chair. Earlier, a 2013 letter from inspector Kianosh Bohlouli describes a 14 January 2013 meeting held without him, a resolution to move assets to a new company, a mother who would not give the inspector the son’s number, a sister managing the related affairs, and the inspector’s removal.

She co-founded Padtan Elm and is the person the 1999 power of attorney grants authority on his behalf over shares, assemblies, banks. This granted her the ability to sign on his behalf in his absence. She is appointed, on a 2023 minute, vice-chair and managing director of Pathobiology Laboratory Center, a Tehran clinical laboratory whose public menu includes the same method family Padtan advertises.

A prominent San Diego philanthropist and a defendant in Asbaghi vs Asbaghi. In a California-notarized declaration, a former AT&T employee says he saw her in the Del Mar AT&T store with Hooman’s passwords, messages, photographs, and iCloud data on her phone — and that she did not want Hooman to know. A First Republic statement for a revocable trust in her name shows a $950,000 debit on 5 January 2017. The line names Hooman Asbaghi. The wire notice does not name a beneficiary. WhatsApp texts in this file have her telling a third party she has been watching his movements, friendships, and intentions. After the suit, texts in this file have her calling her brother a drug addict who has decided to screw up her mother’s life and hers.