ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Jasveen Sangha’s Parents entangled in KFC Franchise Legal Storm
It has been revealed that the parents of ‘Ketamine Queen’ Jasveen Sangha got into legal trouble over their five KFC restaurants in California.
Sangha is currently charged in connection with Matthew Perry’s untimely death.
She is accused of supplying the drugs that killed the Friends actor.
Her parents have also had their fair share of legal troubles.
It is something that has been likened to Breaking Bad.
While Sangha was allegedly cooking ketamine on her kitchen stove, her mother Nilem and stepfather Ashok Sahadevan were involved in their own legally contentious culinary company.
Daily Mail reported that the couple ran five KFC franchises in California from 2008.
But they ended up getting sued by both the state and the fast-food restaurant chain.
Their company, Tasty Birds Management, faced legal complaints in 2010 for failing to pay employees at a KFC outlet in Eureka for holiday hours, overtime and lunch breaks.
In December of that year, California’s Department of Industrial Relations issued a decision, demanding the couple pay out $12,000 to make the two staffers whole.
The KFC Corporation sued Nilem and Ashok in federal court for failing to pay royalties for their restaurants – two of which were in Eureka with the others in Barstow, Fortuna and Crescent City.
In 2013, Judge Joseph McKinley awarded KFC a $52,526.65 judgment, which rose to $62,877 by December 2015 with 10% interest, according to court documents.
Ashok avoided the debt by declaring bankruptcy before the case was over, leaving Nilem responsible for the entire sum.
It is unclear whether she has paid off all the debt.
Ashok’s bankruptcy filings show he left a long list of creditors in the lurch, including the two chicken shop staffers’ $12,000 claim, $41,787 in back rent on one restaurant building and $15,229 on another, and $73,938 on three credit cards.
He even listed an $899,837 debt to Arcata Development Company for an “amount claimed for fraud and punitive damages in default judgment”, over a lawsuit involving a loan he took out to remodel a restaurant in 2009.
In AMC’s Breaking Bad, drug king Gustavo Fring laundered meth money through his Los Pollos Hermanos chicken restaurants.
But unlike the TV show, Nilem and Ashok have not been accused of any involvement with their daughter’s alleged drug dealing.
Jasveen Sangha lived a lavish life and partied with celebrities.
On the other hand, her mother and stepfather fell into an increasingly precarious financial position.
In 2020, Ashok served 30 days in Los Angeles County Jail and 36 months probation after a DUI and hit-and-run property damage conviction.
Nilem lives in a four-bedroom house worth $1.25 million in Tujunga owned by Ashok. It is now up for sale after going into foreclosure in April 2024.
Nilem also put up the $100,000 bail for Jasveen Sangha when she was arrested on drug charges in March after federal agents found thousands of pills, three pounds of meth, mushrooms, cocaine and dozens of vials of ketamine at her North Hollywood home.
Sangha was arrested again when prosecutors announced nine more charges related to her alleged ketamine sales that killed Matthew Perry.
She is also implicated in the ketamine death of Cody McLaury in 2019.
If convicted of the charges, she faces between 10 years and life in federal prison.
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