The high-flying Scarsdale mom who financed her luxury lifestyle by running a multimillion-dollar pot empire has pleaded guilty to drug raps in Brooklyn federal court, The Post has learned.
Drug diva Andrea Sanderlin, 45, has drawn comparisons to the lead character in the Showtime TV series “Weeds” — an otherwise boring suburban mom who started dealing pot to maintain her comfortable lifestyle after her husband died.
In her first extended court statement since her June arrest, the blond equestrian mother of three shamefully admitted to Judge Robert Levy Monday that she grew and sold mass quantities of reefer.
“From 2009 to 2013 in Queens, New York, I operated a facility in which I, together with others, grew at least 1,000 marijuana plants and sold the marijuana product from the plants,” she said softly alongside her attorney, Corey Winograd.
Sanderlin, who rented a sprawling $10,000-a-month mansion and once tooled around town in a Maserati, faces 10 years to life in prison but will likely get less because of her plea. She is currently out on $500,000 posted by a motley crew of pals, and will have her sentencing day set by Judge Brian Cogan.
The stylish drug queen first drew suspicions this summer after FBI agents linked her to a hefty Con Ed account that was powering a large warehouse in Maspeth, Queens.
Authorities tailed her shimmering Mercedes SUV from her Scarsdale digs to the inconspicuous grow house where they discovered 2,800 plants with a street value of more than $3 million, officials said.
The marijuana mogul laundered her mountains of cash through a front company she called “Fantastic Enterprises.”
The twice-divorced mother — who told pals that she was a successful interior designer — frequented the tony Twin Lakes Farm horse-riding academy in Bronxville and showed an appetite for high end vehicles.
Sanderlin extensively researched money-laundering and pot-growing techniques as raiding agents found literature on both topics along with $6,000 in cash at her 5,538-square-foot home.
Agents even grabbed her dutiful nanny during the takedown as she was found fleeing the Scarsdale mansion home with $7,900 wrapped in rubber bands in a brown leather purse.