RAPPER Sean Kingston has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison after he was found guilty in a $1 million fraud case.
Kingston, 35, and his mom were convicted of ripping off car dealerships, jewelers, and a mattress company in a massive wire fraud scheme starting in April 2023.
On Friday, Kingston, real name Kisean Paul Anderson, was sentenced to three years in prison in addition to three years of supervised release in southern Florida.
He was immediately taken into custody.
The decision comes after his mom, 63-year-old Janice Elanor Turner, was sentenced to five years in prison last month.
Kingston and Turner were each found guilty in March of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and four counts of wire fraud, causing the rapper to break down in tears in court.
Both Kingston and Turner were arrested in May 2024 after a SWAT team raided Kingston’s rented mansion.
Turner was taken into custody during the raid, but Kingston was arrested while he was performing at an Army training base.
According to court documents, Kingston and Turner orchestrated a high-end scheme to get luxury items, including an SUV, expensive watches, and a massive TV, without ever paying for them.
Kingston arranged these huge purchases on his social media accounts from April 2023 to March 2024, prosecutors said.
He bought the items using bank wires and payment transfers, but the payments never went through.
When it came time to pay, Kingston or his mom would text the victims fake wire receipts as proof of purchase and keep the items.
Investigators later confirmed they never paid.
In court, prosecutors showed a text message from Kingston to his mom saying, “I told you to make [a] fake receipt,” and then, “so it [looks] like the transfer will be there in a couple days.”
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