FAMILY TIES : 14 Years for Margarine Heiress
An heiress to the Mrs. Filbert’s Margarine fortune has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison and fined $20,000 for running a cocaine trafficking operation from her estate.
Sandra Filbert Amos could have been sentenced to a maximum 17 years and fined $4 million at Thursday’s hearing. But U.S. District Judge Joseph C. Howard said Amos was “already financially ruined.”
“I’ve really made a mess of my life,” a tearful Amos, 35, told Howard. “I used drugs to live and I lived to use drugs. My life was controlled by drugs. I was totally powerless.”
Amos, who inherited $2 million, had spent $1,200 a week on cocaine to support her 10-year cocaine addiction, the judge said, referring to trial testimony.
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