Fort Lauderdale, Fla. – The rapper Sean Kingston and his mother were declared guilty of all the positions in their federal trial of electronic fraud in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Friday.
Kingston, whose real name is Kisean Anderson, and his mother, Janice Turner, were accused of defrauding a jewelry business, a luxury bed company, an exotic and luxury car dealership company, and a luxury microled television company, said arrest orders.
A jury delivered the sentences after 3½ hours of deliberation.
Kingston, 34, received the order to be confined to house arrest with electronic monitoring. You must publish a bond of a house valued at $ 500,000 and $ 200,000 in cash, according to the court.
Turner, 61, was involved in federal custody, where he was ordered to remain until the sentence.
Both are scheduled to be sentenced on July 11.
As the verdicts were read on Friday, Kingston and his mother sneaked their tears.
Kingston was arrested in Fort Irwin, California, in May, by an order issued by the Broward County Sheriff in Florida after a SWAT team raided his home in Southwest Ranches, a community in Broward.
A Federal Grand Jury accused the couple in July 2024. The accusation accused Kingston of using his influence of celebrities and social media accounts to convince sellers of luxury products to deliver items before payment.
His mother said, the accusation, often continued to guarantee the delivery dates and other details. Then the payment was made through fraudulent and useless transfers, said the criminal complaint, while Kingston retained the items.
The scheme continued for a few years until March 2024, according to the accusation.
The couple declared himself innocent of all charges.
Turner’s defense lawyer, Humberto Domínguez, said during the final arguments on Friday that he was trying to protect his son from the people after his money, and who had suspicions about a television installer, two jewelry and car dealers mentioned in the Court.
“This case is about the intuition of a woman,” Domínguez said.
After telling Judge David S. Leibowitz that he wanted to “tell his truth” before in the process, Kingston changed course, deciding not to testify.
Kingston was allowed after bail and stay out of jail until his sentence partly because he made the decision to remain silent, said the federal judge in court.
Leibowitz said that Turner’s testimony, who said he was equivalent to obstruction, was a factor in his decision to remember it again to federal custody. He said his testimony “makes it impossible to believe that he would do nothing for his son.”
Kingston and Turner hugged when they took her in federal custody. When he left the courtroom, Kingston thanked the judge for his justice.
The artist born in Jamaica did not talk to the media when he left the court in a SUV URUS LAMBORGHINI.
He was 17 years old when his success “Beautiful Girls” was launched in 2007. He quickly exceeded the best of Billboard and stayed there for four weeks. The single exhibited Hybrid by Kingston, Singsong Rapping, part of a Jamaican tradition that underlies the origins of hip-hop, on the musical track of “Stand by me” by Ben E. King. His video exceeded one billion visits on YouTube in 2022, according to Billboard.
Charlie Gile reported from Fort Lauderdale and Dennis Romero de San Diego.
