Jasveen Sangha Case Sends Erik Fleming to 2 Years in Los Angeles
jasveen sangha was tied to Erik Fleming’s case on Wednesday when a federal judge in Los Angeles sentenced the 56-year-old to two years in prison for distributing ketamine resulting in death. Fleming had already pleaded guilty in August 2024, making him the fourth defendant sentenced in the five-person prosecution over Matthew Perry’s 2023 death.
Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett imposed the prison term after hearing Fleming say, “It’s truly a nightmare I can’t wake up from” and “I’m haunted by the mistakes I made.” The sentence closes one chapter in a case that has followed the chain of ketamine supply from Sangha to Fleming, then to Perry’s home and the assistant who injected him.
Los Angeles sentencing
Prosecutors said Fleming, a licensed drug addiction counselor, deliberately undertook to sell illegal street drugs to a victim with a public, well-documented battle with drug addiction. Defense lawyers asked for three months in prison and nine months in a residential drug treatment facility, but Garnett chose a much longer sentence.
Fleming, a 56-year-old former film and television producer who later became a counselor after getting sober, also told the court, “I procured ketamine for Matthew Perry because I wanted the money and because I thought I was doing a favor for a friend.” He added in a letter to the court, “I never contemplated the worst possible outcome. This grievous failure will haunt me for ever.”
From Sangha to Perry
The chain described in court began a few weeks before 28 October 2023, when Matthew Perry asked a friend to help him get more ketamine than he could obtain through doctors. The friend introduced him to Fleming, who got ketamine from Jasveen Sangha, marked up the price, and delivered it to Perry’s house.
Fleming sold the ketamine to Perry’s live-in personal assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa, and delivered 25 vials for $6,000 four days before Perry died. On 28 October 2023, Iwamasa injected Perry from that batch, and Perry was found dead hours later. A medical examiner found that Perry died from the acute effects of ketamine and that drowning was a secondary cause.
Five defendants, four sentences
Fleming became the fourth defendant sentenced among five people who pleaded guilty in prosecutions over Perry’s death. Jasveen Sangha was sentenced last month to 15 years in prison, leaving the case centered on the remaining sentencing record rather than a broader trial.
The practical consequence for the case is that the sentencing phase is nearly complete, with the court already having punished the people who prosecutors say moved ketamine outside medical channels and into Perry’s orbit. For Perry’s family and for the others drawn into the case, the remaining public record now rests on the sentences already imposed, the guilty pleas entered, and the timeline that led to the fatal dose.
