Rapper Sean Kingston was sentenced on Friday to 3 and a half years in jail after being convicted of a $1 million fraud scheme in South Florida.
Kingston, whose authorized identify is Kisean Paul Anderson, and his mom, Janice Eleanor Turner, have been every convicted by a federal jury in March of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and 4 counts of wire fraud. U.S. Choose David Leibowitz sentenced Turner final month to 5 years in jail.
The identical choose sentenced Kingston, who was instantly taken into custody. Leibowitz additionally ordered {that a} restitution listening to ought to be held inside 90 days. Kingston’s sentence is to be adopted by three years of supervised launch.
Kingston, 35, and his mom have been arrested in Might 2024 after a SWAT group raided Kingston’s rented mansion in suburban Fort Lauderdale. Turner was taken into custody through the raid, whereas Kingston was arrested at Fort Irwin, an Military coaching base in California’s Mojave Desert, the place he was performing.
In accordance with court docket data, Kingston used social media from April 2023 to March 2024 to rearrange purchases of high-end merchandise. After negotiating offers, Kingston would invite the sellers to one in all his high-end Florida properties and promise to characteristic them and their merchandise on social media.
Investigators mentioned that when it got here time to pay, Kingston or his mom would textual content the victims pretend wire receipts for the posh merchandise, which included a bulletproof Escalade, watches and a 19-foot (5.9-meter) LED TV, investigators mentioned.
When the funds by no means cleared, victims typically contacted Kingston and Turner repeatedly, however have been both by no means paid or acquired cash solely after submitting lawsuits or contacting regulation enforcement.
Kingston, who was born in Florida and raised in Jamaica, shot to fame at age 17 with the 2007 hit “Lovely Women,” which laid his lyrics over Ben E. King’s 1961 track “Stand By Me.” His different hits embody 2007’s “Take You There” and 2009’s “Fireplace Burning.”
