A jury in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, sentenced rapper Sean Kingston and his mother on Friday in a program involving more than a million dollars in fraud, according to prosecutors.
Mr. Kingston, 35, whose real name is Kisean Anderson, and his mother, Janice Turner, 62, both from Southwest Ranches, Florida, had been accused of five leaders of fraud.
They essentially took possession of high -end vehicles, jewelry and other products by pretending to have paid them through the use of fraudulent documents, according to the American prosecutor’s office for the southern district of Florida.
Everyone risks a maximum of 20 years in prison with each charge, said prosecutors. Defenders should be sentenced in July.
Friday, Ms. Turner, who testified during the trial, was placed in police custody. His lawyer, Humberto Dominguez, said on Saturday morning that they will call on the verdict.
Mr. Kingston, who has not testified, was authorized to be endorsed by a house worth $ 500,000 and $ 200,000 in cash, but will remain in home detention with electronic surveillance. His lawyer, Zeljka Bozanic, said on Saturday that she was grateful that Mr. Kingston was authorized to stay on bail, but added that they would also make a call.
At the age of 17, Mr. Kingston became known for his first single, “Beautiful Girls”, which used a sample of “stand by me” by Ben E. King. It was classified n ° 1 for four weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 table in 2007.
“He spent his childhood in Jamaica, which gave him his stage name and his order as a dialect,” wrote the critic Kelefa Sanneh in the New York Times in 2007, “but his version of Thug Love (` `Girl, I know it’s tough, but that we can quite hard.”
According to prosecutors, Mr. Kingston and Ms. Turner “unfairly enriched” by wrongly affirming that they had executed bank cables or other monetary transfers such as payment for vehicles, jewelry and other high -end items when no transfer of this type had taken place.
He increased to real estate transport of more than a million dollars, prosecutors said.
Mr. Kingston and Ms. Turner were accused of a plan “organized for fraud”, including a car dealer and a jeweler, of more than $ 50,000, according to arrest mandates.
Mr. Kingston and Ms. Turner were also accused of having stolen a Cadillac climbing at the dealership and $ 480,000 in jewelry to an individual, according to the mandates.
Ms. Turner pleaded guilty in 2006 for charges of banking fraud and filing fraudulent loan requests and was sentenced to 16 months in prison, according to the judicial archives. She was released in March 2007.
