Sean Kingston sentenced to 3.5 years in prison for fraud scheme after making three-word plea to police
Callum Jones
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Sean Kingston has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison after he was found guilty of a series of crimes that allowed him to obtain over $1 million worth of goods.
Earlier this year, Kingston and his mother, Janice Turner, were convicted on all five charges they faced stemming from their May 2024 arrest.
The mother and son duo were found guilty of wire fraud charges through a scheme that allowed them to swindle money and goods from car dealerships, multiple banks and a mattress firm.
Kingston, whose real name is Kisean Anderson, cried as the verdict was read out at the Fort Lauderdale federal court back in March.
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He also issued a three-word plea to the authorities as Turner was taken by US Marshals into federal custody.
The rapper - who rose to fame for his 2007 track 'Beautiful Girls' - simply said ‘protect my mother’.
Turner was sentenced to five years in prison and three years' probation in July, while Kingston and his lawyers requested the judge to consider home confinement because of the non-violent nature of the crime and due to the fact he had paid most of his victims back.
However, the judge ignored such request and sentenced Kingston to over three years behind bars.
Kingston and Turner's arrests in 2024 stemmed from a civil lawsuit filed against the rapper by Ver Ver Entertainment LLC in February of that year.
They were seeking payment of damages for breach of contract and fraud after Kingston ordered a 232-inch Colossal TV and a sound system for his home.
To get a cheaper deal on the mega $111,000 purchase, Kingston allegedly promised to make promotional material about the TV alongside fellow singer Justin Bieber.
Ultimately, the commercials were never made, and Bieber was at no point involved.
In court earlier this year, victims of the scheme testified and stated that Kingston and his mother had defrauded them out of a bulletproof Cadillac Escalade, a Colossal TV and hundreds of thousands of dollars in watches.
Previously, the pair were successfully sued and ordered to pay over $300,000 in two separate fraud cases.
In 2015, Kingston and Turner were ordered to pay $356,000 after they were accused in a New York City federal court of failing to pay a customized watch seller.
And just three years later, they had to shell out $301,000 to a New York jeweler who claimed they had scammed them out of nine luxury items.