http://nypost.com/2016/04/19/pot-dealing-suburban-mom-gets-off-with-community-service/
The Scarsdale mom who admitted to running a $3 million pot ring got a wrist-slap sentence Tuesday after cooperating with federal authorities against her former drug-dealing cohorts.
Pot princess Andrea Sanderlin — who has been likened to the Mary-Louise Parker character in the Showtime series “Weeds — wept in front of Brooklyn federal court Judge Brian Cogan as she insisted she’s turned her life around following her 2013 bust for growing nearly 3,000 marijuana plants inside a Queens grow house.
“What I have done is very wrong. I know that my children need me,” she cried. “I’m not perfect. But I’m a changed person.”
Sanderlin’s lawyer added that she risked her life by cooperating with the government in various cases against other defendants.
“She did that at risk knowing there could be consequences,” attorney Corey Winograd said.
The judge agreed, calling Sanderlin’s cooperation “substantial” and sentencing her to the six weeks she spent in jail after her arrest, on top of 100 hours of community service.
Cogan also acknowledged that Sanderlin helped feds shut down at least one other grow house and nab guilty pleas for other people related to her case.
“We have someone who’s shown every outward indication of actually being a changed person, both by words and by deeds,” the judge said.
Outside court, Sanderlin declined to comment other than saying she was “grateful.”
The epitome of White Privilege.
The Scarsdale mom who admitted to running a $3 million pot ring got a wrist-slap sentence Tuesday after cooperating with federal authorities against her former drug-dealing cohorts.
Pot princess Andrea Sanderlin — who has been likened to the Mary-Louise Parker character in the Showtime series “Weeds — wept in front of Brooklyn federal court Judge Brian Cogan as she insisted she’s turned her life around following her 2013 bust for growing nearly 3,000 marijuana plants inside a Queens grow house.
“What I have done is very wrong. I know that my children need me,” she cried. “I’m not perfect. But I’m a changed person.”
Sanderlin’s lawyer added that she risked her life by cooperating with the government in various cases against other defendants.
“She did that at risk knowing there could be consequences,” attorney Corey Winograd said.
The judge agreed, calling Sanderlin’s cooperation “substantial” and sentencing her to the six weeks she spent in jail after her arrest, on top of 100 hours of community service.
Cogan also acknowledged that Sanderlin helped feds shut down at least one other grow house and nab guilty pleas for other people related to her case.
“We have someone who’s shown every outward indication of actually being a changed person, both by words and by deeds,” the judge said.
Outside court, Sanderlin declined to comment other than saying she was “grateful.”
The epitome of White Privilege.
