Sean Kingston and his mother are both facing decades in prison after being convicted of wire fraud.
The “Beautiful Girls” rapper and his mom, Janice Turner, were found guilty on Friday (March 28) of one charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and four counts of wire fraud each, according to CBS News.
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Each charge carries the significant sentence of up to 20 years behind bars.
Sentencing is scheduled to take place on July 11.
Kingston reacted to the verdict by writing on his Instagram Stories: “Lately they been tryna break me on the daily” along with a facepalm and broken heart emoji.
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Sean Kingston speaks out for the first time after being found guilty of fraud: “Lately they been tryna break me on the daily” pic.twitter.com/sH8ZYuyjfT
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Kingston and Turner were arrested in May 2024 during a raid on his Florida mansion after he was sued for allegedly failing to pay for a number of luxury items, which later unveiled the wire fraud scheme.
The suit, filed by Ver Ver Entertainment LLC, accused Kingston of scamming the company out of high-end electronics.
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In exchange for the electronics, which would have cost over $100,000, the 35-year-old allegedly promised to make promotional videos for the products with Justin Bieber, who he worked with on the hit song “Eeenie Meenie” back in 2010.
Kingston paid a $30,000 down payment for the goods and agreed to make a second payment of $47,000, while the rest would be paid for in the form of social-media posts, the suit claimed.
However, the rapper failed to make the second payment after the TV was installed and did not make any of the social media posts either, according to the complaint.
Dennis Card, an attorney for the plaintiff, claimed that Kingston worked from a script to entice money out of people.
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“He’s got basically a script. He says that he works with Justin Bieber and that he obviously puts on a big show here” Card said. “This is a rental house, he doesn’t own it, and he lures people using his celebrity into having them release things without him paying for it and then he simply never pays.
“He’s 100 percent a scammer. He’s on felony probation right now for trafficking in stolen property. He’s got judgements against him for procuring more than $1 million in watches without paying for them. This is just an ongoing pattern for Sean.”
Kingston’s mother, who was described as her son’s “operator, fixer and accountant,” also has a history of fraud.
