{"id":113000,"date":"2024-07-20T23:46:27","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T23:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/20\/sean-kingston-and-his-mother-indicted-in-alleged-1m-fraud\/"},"modified":"2024-07-20T23:46:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T23:46:27","slug":"sean-kingston-and-his-mother-indicted-in-alleged-1m-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/20\/sean-kingston-and-his-mother-indicted-in-alleged-1m-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Kingston and His Mother Indicted in Alleged $1M Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3666263\" style=\"width: 300px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:68%;\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Sean Kingston<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Photo by Tim Mosenfelder\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/sean-kingston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Sean Kingston<\/strong><\/a> and his mother, <strong>Janice Turner<\/strong>, have been indicted on allegations of wire fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Kingston, 34, and Turner, 61, are accused of pressuring multiple businesses to give them goods that had not yet been paid for, claiming that the money for the items had been wired and was in transit.<\/p>\n<p>A federal grand jury in Miami charged both Kinsgton and Turner on five counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The charges each carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office of the Southern District of Florida <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-sdfl\/pr\/singer-sean-kingston-and-his-mother-charged-wire-fraud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claims<\/a> the mother-son duo \u201cunjustly enriched themselves\u201d to the tune of more than $1 million \u201cby falsely representing that they had executed bank wire or other monetary payment transfers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/pictures\/singer-sean-kingston-a-day-in-my-life\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Sean-Kingston-Inside-Day-My-Life-001.jpg?crop=0px%2C0px%2C2000px%2C1131px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=78&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Sean Kingston: Inside a Day in My Life\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Sean-Kingston-Inside-Day-My-Life-001.jpg?quality=78&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__title-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/pictures\/singer-sean-kingston-a-day-in-my-life\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Sean Kingston: Inside a Day in My Life<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tTour life! Sean Kingston has been traveling from city to city performing \u2014 and he exclusively invited\u00a0Us Weekly\u00a0to see what his routine is like. \u201cI\u2019ve been on the\u00a0Road to Deliverance Tour\u00a0for the past four months,\u00a0so mornings are late for me,\u201d the \u201cBeautiful Girls\u201d singer, 32, revealed of his daily rituals\u00a0in the latest issue of\u00a0Us Weekly, [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201dProsecutors allege that Kingston \u2013 whose legal name is <strong>Kisean Anderson<\/strong> \u2013 and Turner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/sean-kingston-agrees-to-florida-extradition-following-arrest-on-fraud-and-theft-charges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">used fraudulent documents<\/a> to pressure dealers of luxury vehicles, jewelry and other high-end items to hand over goods before they had received a full payment.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cBeautiful Girls\u201d singer was released on a $10,000 cash bond on Friday, July 19. His mother was released on a $5,000 cash bond the same day. They are both due in court for their next appearance on August 9.<\/p>\n<p><em>Us Weekly<\/em> has reached out to Kingston\u2019s representatives for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Kingston and Turner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/why-was-sean-kingston-arrested-what-to-know-about-the-allegations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">were arrested<\/a> on similar state-level charges in May. Turner was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/sean-kingstons-mother-arrested-on-fraud-and-theft-charges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">taken into custody<\/a> following a SWAT raid of Kingston\u2019s Fort Lauderdale-area home and the crooner Kingston was arrested in California shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Kingston is facing a civil lawsuit over a similar alleged scheme. An attorney for the plaintiff in that lawsuit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/authorities-raid-southwest-ranches-mansion-rented-by-rapper-sean-kingston\/3318611\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told NBC 6 Miami<\/a> that he uses Kingston \u201cbasically a script\u2026and he lures people using his celebrity into having them release things without him paying for it and then he simply never pays.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kingston charged onto the pop airwaves in 2007 with a trio of hit singles from his self-titled debut album. \u201cBeautiful Girls\u201d and \u201cTake You There\u201d both cracked the top 10 in the US, with the former spending four weeks at number 1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFire Burning\u201d off of Kingston\u2019s sophomore album <em>Tomorrow<\/em> saw similar success, but never again breached the top 10. Subsequent collaborations with <strong>Justin Bieber<\/strong> (\u201cEenie Meenie\u201d) and <strong>Nicki Minaj<\/strong> (\u201cLetting Go (Dutty Love)\u201d) saw moderate success. His third album, 2013\u2019s <em>Back 2 Life<\/em>, failed to produce any singles that made the top half of the Billboard Hot 100. His most recent album was 2022\u2019s <em>Road to Deliverance<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/sean-kingston-and-his-mother-indicted-in-alleged-1m-fraud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Kingston Photo by Tim Mosenfelder\/Getty Images Sean Kingston and his mother, Janice Turner, have been indicted on allegations of wire fraud. Kingston, 34, and Turner, 61, are accused of pressuring multiple businesses to give them goods that had not yet been paid for, claiming that the money for the items had been wired and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-113000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}