{"id":43289,"date":"2024-07-20T04:17:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T04:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=43289"},"modified":"2024-07-20T04:17:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T04:17:02","slug":"rapper-sean-kingston-and-another-indicted-on-1m-fraud-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2024\/07\/20\/rapper-sean-kingston-and-another-indicted-on-1m-fraud-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapper Sean Kingston and another indicted on $1M fraud scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rapper and singer&nbsp;<strong>Sean Kingston<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>his mother<\/strong>&nbsp;have been indicted in South Florida on federal charges of committing more than $1 million worth of fraud.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kingston, 34, and his mother, 61-year-old Janice Turner, made their first appearances Friday in federal court, according to court records. A Miami grand jury returned an indictment earlier this month accusing Kingston and his mother of participating in a scheme to defraud victims of high-end specialty vehicles, jewelry and other goods through the use of fraudulent documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kingston was&nbsp;<strong>booked<\/strong>&nbsp;into the Broward County jail on similar state charges last month following a May 23 arrest at Fort Irwin, an Army training base in California\u2019s Mojave Desert where he was performing. Turner was arrested the same day as her son, when a SWAT team raided his rented mansion in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the federal indictment, Kingston and Turner falsely claimed that they had executed bank wire or other monetary payment transfers for high-end items when no such transfers had taken place. Investigators said Kingston and Turner then kept over $1 million worth of fraudulently purchased items despite not paying for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The warrants for the state charges say that from October to March, they stole almost $500,000 in jewelry, more than $200,000 from Bank of America, $160,000 from a Cadilac Escalade dealer, more than $100,000 from First Republic Bank and $86,000 from the maker of customized beds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Jamaican American performer had a No. 1 hit with \u201cBeautiful Girls\u201d in 2007 and collaborated with Justin Bieber on the song \u201cEenie Meenie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Robert Rosenblatt, an attorney for Kingston and his mother, didn\u2019t immediately respond to a message seeking comment from The Associated Press. He previously said they looked forward to addressing the charges and were&nbsp;\u201cconfident of a successful resolution.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kingston, whose legal name is Kisean Anderson, was already serving a two-year probation sentence for trafficking stolen property.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His mother pleaded guilty in 2006 to bank fraud for stealing over $160,000 and served nearly 1.5 years in prison, according to federal court records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rapper and singer&nbsp;Sean Kingston&nbsp;and&nbsp;his mother&nbsp;have been indicted in South Florida on federal charges of committing more than $1 million worth of fraud.&nbsp; Kingston, 34, and his mother, 61-year-old Janice Turner, made their first appearances Friday in federal court, according to court records. A Miami grand jury returned an indictment earlier this month accusing Kingston and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":43292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80,1],"tags":[8217,6975,7358,2848,9194,10507,8768,9975,5321,6085,11368,6032,9997,7351,6580,8923,7141,6283,8369,8306,6544,428,11367,11307,6838,5566,9313,6740,9539],"class_list":["post-43289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-news","tag-army","tag-arrest","tag-bank","tag-california","tag-charges","tag-court","tag-defraud","tag-first-republic-bank","tag-florida","tag-fraud","tag-fraud-scheme","tag-goods","tag-guilty","tag-jail","tag-jury","tag-justin","tag-justin-bieber","tag-miami","tag-performer","tag-prison","tag-property","tag-rapper","tag-sean-kingston","tag-sentence","tag-singer","tag-swat","tag-trafficking","tag-us-fbi","tag-victims"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43293,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43289\/revisions\/43293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}