PHILADELPHIA, PA — Chanell Cunningham, whose testimony helped convict her kingpin boyfriend of murder, was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years in prison by a federal judge who said she spent years “styling and profiling” as a high-living underworld drug moll.

U.S. District Judge Curtis Joyner, in pointed comments to a courtroom packed with family members and friends, told Cunningham that were it not for her cooperation, he would have sentenced her to more than 30 years in prison.

He described the 37-year-old mother of two as a “major officer” and “vice president of personnel” for the multimillion-dollar cocaine-distribution network set up by her lover, Maurice Phillips.

Cunningham, originally from Southwest Philadelphia, lived for a time in a house in Sicklerville, Camden County, that she said Phillips used as a stash house for the millions of dollars in cash his drug operation generated.

Phillips, 39, was sentenced to five consecutive life terms by Joyner last week following his conviction on murder, drug dealing, conspiracy, and money-laundering charges.

Cunningham was one of the key witnesses against him during a three-month trial that ended earlier this year.

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