Sean Kingston and his mom, Janice Turner, have each been discovered responsible of fraud.
On Friday (March 28), the 35-year-old rapper and Janice had been discovered responsible of all fees by a federal jury in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in keeping with CBS Information.
Sean and Janice had been each discovered responsible of 1 rely of conspiracy to commit fraud and 4 counts of wire fraud. They now await sentencing, and each face a most sentence of 20 years in jail for every rely. Sean has been positioned on home arrest till sentencing.
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Final yr, the 2 had been arrested and indicted for an alleged “scheme to defraud sufferer sellers of high-end specialty automobiles, jewellery, and different items bought by the defendants via using fraudulent paperwork,” in keeping with the United States Legal professional’s Workplace within the Southern District of Florida.
The allegations within the indictment state the mother-son duo “unjustly enriched themselves by falsely representing that that they had executed financial institution wire or different financial fee transfers as fee for automobiles, jewellery, and different items bought by the defendants, when actually no such financial institution wire or different financial fee transfers had been executed by the purported banks, and thereafter the defendants retained or tried to retain the automobiles, jewellery and different items regardless of non-payment. Via the execution of this scheme, the defendants obtained in extra of $1 million in property.”
Shortly after his arrest in 2024, the “Lovely Women” singer addressed the scenario on his Instagram story.
