Sean Kingston is sentenced to over 3 years in prison for $1 million fraud
Singer Sean Kingston was given a three-and-a-half-year federal prison stay for defrauding jewelers and other businesses out of more than $1 million, records show.
On Friday, U.S. District Judge David S. Leibowitz sentenced Kisean Paul Anderson, known as Sean Kingston, in a Fort Lauderdale court to 42 months of prison time and was ordered to enter a 500-hour residential drug and alcohol treatment program, records show.
In March, a jury found Kingston, 35, and his mother, 63-year-old Janice Turner, guilty of five wire fraud-related charges. They were indicted in July 2024, weeks after authorities raided his rented, seven-bedroom, 7,966-square-foot Southwest Ranches’ home.
Turner was sentenced to five years in federal prison late last month.
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From April 2023 to March 2024, Kingston and Turner were behind an elaborate wire-fraud scheme. They faked wire transfers in order to get vehicles, jewelry and other luxury goods that they never paid for. The transactions — which included $480,000 for two watches, $285,000 for another watch, and $159,702.78 for a car — totaled more than $1 million in goods.
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A restitution hearing is scheduled for Oct. 16.
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