The judge called her a “predator,” scolded her for her spinelessness and sentenced an actor Monday to 90 months in prison — more than twice what prosecutors had requested — for her role in a multi million dollar fraud against a mentally ill doctor who wound up dead. During a sentencing hearing Monday afternoon, U.S.
District Judge Percy Anderson said the 7 1/2-year prison sentence was necessary for Anna Rene Moore to reflect the seriousness of the offense against a “vulnerable victim.” The government had recommended a 41-month sentence. Moore’s federal public defender recommended 27 months.
In handing down a harsher sentence, Anderson referred to Moore as a “wolf in sheep’s clothing.” Anderson said Moore and her ex-boyfriend, Anthony David Flores, had embarked on a scheme to exploit the victim, Mark Sawusch, and “hijack his fortune.” Moore pleaded guilty last year to seven felonies, including conspiracy to commit mail fraud, mail fraud, conspiracy to engage in money laundering and money laundering.
Flores was sentenced in June to nearly 16 years in prison. During the hearing, Moore, dressed in a white prison jumpsuit, apologized to the Sawusch family for what she called her “unacceptable involvement.” Moore said she’d struggled her whole life with depression, anxiety, insomnia, anorexia and “crippling co-dependence.
” “Had I had the confidence to stand up to [Flores] more assertively, things could have gone differently,” she said. “I kno.