Rapper Sean Kingston Has Been Senteneted to Three and A Half Years in Federal Prison in a Million-Dollar Fraud Scheme.
The “Beautiful Girls” singer was convicted earlier this year, along with his mother, in a wire Fraud Scheme when they stole luxury ITEMS Including Watches, a 232-inch LED TV, a Bulletproof Cadillac Escalade and Furniture, Excepting $ 1M (£ 738,000).
Prosecutors Said Kingston – Whose Legal Name is Kisean Anderson – and his mother used the rapper’s center status to get Victims to Give the Products and when the Payment was Due Wood Send Theme Fake Wire Receps.
The Singer Apology
His Mother, Janice Turner, WAS SENTNECED in July to Five Years in Prison.
The Jamaican-MARICAN RAPPER, who is also know He was Set to Perform at an Army Training Base in the Mojave Desert.
His Arrest Happy Attorries Raided His Home Near Fort Lauderdale, where his mother was Taken INTO CUSTDY.
Federal Prosecutors Said Kingston Reacked Out to Victims on Social Media, Saying He Wanted to Purchase Luxury Goods and then Invited them to his Various Homes in South Florida.
Kingston promised these Victims to post their produces on his social media and skettes offact to refer their products to other “high profile celbrities”, Feder Prosecutors Said.
But when the Payment was Due for the Products, He or His Mother Sent them Fake Wire Receips that Falsely Showed They’d Sent Over the Money, Prosecutors SAID AT At Trial.
Authorities SAID MOST Victims Were Never Paid, Though Several Did Receive Payment after Law Enforcement Got Involved or Lawsuits Were Filed.
A KEY PIECE OF EVIDENCE ShOWN at Trial Were Text Messages Between Kingston and his Mother Discussing The Fake Payment Receps, According to CBS, The BBC’s News Partner.
“I told you to make [a] Fake ReCEIPT, “He Wrote in One.
Kingston’s Attorney Zeljka Bozanic Said The Singer Was “A Soft Guy WhO GREW UP POOR when He Rose to Fame Overnight”. He said Kingston Still Had the Mentality of a Teenager and DIDNNT KNOW How To Run His Bank Accounts Or Business.
He will benge Serving his time imdiately.