charged with conspiracy to distribute ketamine to Perry, <\/a>who died from acute effects of the drug. <\/p>\nDuring the sentencing hearing, U.S. District Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett said that of the charged defendants tied to Perry\u2019s death, Sangha was \u201cprobably one of the most culpable.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is not a reflection of you being a bad person,\u201d Garnett said. \u201cThis sentence is a reflection of you engaging in illegal conduct.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sangha covered her mouth with her left hand as the judge handed down her sentence, which included three years of supervised release. More than 50 people had packed into the courtroom, and as Sangha left, she waved at her family in the gallery and blew them a kiss.<\/p>\n
Authorities say Sangha sold about 50 vials of ketamine to Perry for $11,000 \u2014 including the batch that led to his October 2023 death at 54. In her plea agreement, Sangha admitted to knowingly distributing ketamine to Perry, whose struggles with drug addiction and numerous rehab visits were well documented.<\/p>\n
Sangha also admitted to selling four vials of ketamine to Cody McLaury in August 2019. McLaury, 33, died hours later in his Los Angeles home from a drug overdose that authorities said included ketamine as a factor.<\/p>\n
Sangha, dressed in a light-colored jail jumpsuit, her shackles clinking as she walked to the podium to address the court, said that \u201cthe rug of life was ripped out from under me.\u201d She cited her \u201cpoor choices\u201d and addiction as factors in her behavior.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot a day goes by that I don\u2019t think about my actions,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m deeply ashamed. I am so very sorry \u2026 I pray for forgiveness every day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sangha called the experience \u201cthe harshest reality check of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n
During the hearing, Perry\u2019s stepfather, Keith Morrison, told Sangha that he doesn\u2019t hate her. \u201cI\u2019m not angry at you,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
But Morrison told Sangha that she had \u201csupplied an addict,\u201d and that all of Perry\u2019s possibilities \u201cdied with him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe had so much more to give,\u201d Morrison said, as Sangha cried.<\/p>\n
McLaury\u2019s sister also spoke, noting that Sangha \u201cdidn\u2019t feel bad enough to stop when my brother died.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou being caught is the only thing that stopped you,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
In a sentencing memorandum ahead of the hearing Wednesday, Sangha\u2019s defense attorneys, Mark J. Geragos and Alexandra Kazarian, noted that their client had no prior criminal history and had been incarcerated since August 2024. They asked the judge to sentence Sangha to time served.<\/p>\n
During the hearing, Geragos said \u201cthere was nobody who was going to stop Mr. Perry from doing what he was going to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce they\u2019re in the throes of addiction, that\u2019s it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Two defendants have yet to be sentenced, including Perry\u2019s former personal assistant Kenneth Iwamasa. Salvador Plasencia, a former physician who supplied ketamine to Perry in the weeks leading up to his death was sentenced to serve 30 months \u2014 about two and a half years \u2014 in prison. Mark Chavez, another former doctor who played a role in providing the actor ketamine, was sentenced to eight months of house arrest.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors in their sentencing memo described Sangha as a \u201cprivileged individual\u201d with a financially stable life.<\/p>\n
The prosecutors wrote that Sangha \u201celected not to make use of her privileged background for the better. In fact, unlike many defendants who traffic drugs against a humble backdrop marred by childhood and family difficulties, defendant chose to deal drugs not because of financial deprivation, but for greed, glamor, and access.\u201d <\/p>\n
They accused Sangha of trying to \u201crewrite history\u201d to paint herself as the victim and said she had not demonstrated remorse.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe repeatedly sold dangerous drugs in high volume; she ran a stash house and directed others to help sell her drugs; she obstructed justice to conceal her actions; and she was fully aware that her drug dealing contributed to at least two deaths \u2014 yet kept selling the drugs to others,\u201d the prosecutors wrote.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors also cited a recorded jail call of Sangha discussing obtaining \u201ctrademarks\u201d and securing book rights based on the events of the case. Even if in jest, prosecutors said, the conversation suggested Sangha \u201cdoes not appreciate the severity of her offenses, and instead sees her crimes as a potential future revenue stream.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWithout a doubt, Ms. Sangha is the most culpable defendant in this case,\u201d Assistant U.S. Atty. Ian Yanniello said Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman known as the \u201cKetamine queen\u201d who provided the drugs that killed actor Matthew Perry was sentenced…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":714127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[13257,91211,19351,4446,9728,10000,130750,51,296963,6616,296964,296965,58367,50,6291,1534,52,237772],"class_list":["post-714126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-authority","tag-cody-mclaury","tag-count","tag-death","tag-distribution","tag-drug","tag-federal-prosecutor","tag-headlines","tag-jasveen-sangha","tag-judge","tag-ketamine-queen","tag-many-defendant","tag-matthew-perry","tag-news","tag-other","tag-perry","tag-top-stories","tag-vial"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116371005891052699","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}