Rapper Sean Kingston was sentenced to three and a half years in federal prison in a fraud program at one million dollars.
The singer “Beautiful Girls” was sentenced earlier this year, with her mother, in a wire fraud program where they stole luxury items, including watches, a 232 -inch LED television, a Cadillac Climbing and 232 inch furniture, exceeding $ 1 million (£ 738,000).
The prosecutors said Kingston – whose legal name is Kisean Anderson – and his mother used the rapper’s celebrity status so that the victims give them products and when payment was due to them would send them false metallic receipts.
The singer apologized to the court before being sentenced and said he had learned from his actions, according to American media.
His mother, Janice Turner, was sentenced in July to five years in prison.
The Jamaican-American rapper, who is also known for his tubes like Burning, Take You there and Eenie Meenie, who featured singer Justin Bieber, was arrested in 2024 in California, where he was to perform in an army training base in the Mojave desert.
His arrest occurred after the authorities made a descent into his house near Fort Lauderdale, where his mother was arrested.
Federal prosecutors said Kingston had contacted the victims on social networks, saying that he wanted to buy luxury products and then invited them to his various houses in southern Florida.
Kingston promised these victims to publish their products on his social networks and sometimes proposed to refer their products to other “high -level celebrities”, said federal prosecutors.
But when the payment was due for the products, he or his mother sent them false metallic receipts which falsely showed that they had sent money, prosecutors told trial.
The authorities said that most of the victims had never been paid, although many received payment after the police were involved or that prosecution was filed.
According to CBS, the BBC information partner, a key evidence shown during the trial, was an SMS between Kingston and his mother.
“I told you to make (a) a false receipt,” he wrote in one.
Kingston’s lawyer Zeljka Bozanic said that the singer was “a sweet guy who grew poor when he became famous overnight”. He said Kingston still had the mentality of a teenager and did not know how to manage his bank accounts or his business.
He will start to serve his time immediately.
