Sean Kingston was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in federal jail after being convicted of defrauding companies out of hundreds of thousands in luxurious items.

Sean Kingston will spend greater than three years behind bars after a federal decide sentenced the Hip-Hop artist for orchestrating a multi-million-dollar fraud ring involving high-end items and pretend wire transfers.

On Friday, August 15, a federal courtroom in Fort Lauderdale handed Kingston a three-and-a-half-year time period after prosecutors detailed how he and his mom scammed retailers out of luxurious objects, together with a bulletproof Cadillac Escalade, a 232-inch tv and dear jewellery. The courtroom additionally ordered him to pay $1.17 million in restitution.

Kingston was convicted of conspiring together with his mom, Janice Turner, to defraud greater than 20 victims out of $3.1 million in items and companies.

Prosecutors said the pair used forged documents and false guarantees of wire funds to trick companies into delivering costly merchandise.

The authorities’s sentencing memo revealed that the unique pre-sentencing report failed to incorporate all victims and the total scope of losses. Federal attorneys requested the courtroom to contemplate the broader harm attributable to the scheme, which spanned a number of years.

“There are 21 people or businesses who lost money because of Sean’s actions,” prosecutors acknowledged. “Sean and his mother tried to steal about $3.1 million.”

Kingston’s mom, Janice Turner, was sentenced on July 23 to 5 years in federal jail after being convicted on one depend of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and 4 counts of wire fraud.

She was additionally ordered to serve three years of supervised launch following her sentence and attend a restitution listening to scheduled for October 16.

According to experiences, authorities seized a number of of the posh objects throughout a raid on their Florida house. Prosecutors stated the fraud concerned over $3 million in losses.

Kingston, who had been on home arrest, was taken into custody instantly following the sentencing.

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