{"id":1961882,"date":"2025-08-15T10:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T10:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1961882"},"modified":"2025-08-15T10:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T10:55:10","slug":"sean-kingston-to-be-sentenced-in-south-florida-1-million-fraud-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/sean-kingston-to-be-sentenced-in-south-florida-1-million-fraud-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Kingston to be sentenced in South Florida $1 million fraud scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F08%2Fnewspress-collage-t2m6rd93v-1755254547289.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall%261755240176\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Rapper Sean Kingston is scheduled to be sentenced in South Florida on Friday after being convicted of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/07\/20\/us-news\/sean-kingston-and-mom-indicted-in-1m-fraud-scheme\/\">a $1 million fraud scheme.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kingston, whose legal name is <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/03\/29\/entertainment\/sean-kingston-mom-janice-turner-found-guilty-in-florida-federal-wire-fraud-case\/\">Kisean Paul Anderson, and his mother, Janice Eleanor Turner,<\/a> were each convicted by a federal jury in March of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and four counts of wire fraud.<\/p>\n<p>US Judge David Leibowitz sentenced Turner last month to five years in prison, but Kingston\u2019s sentencing was rescheduled.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Kingston\u2019s mother Janice Eleanor Turner was sentenced to 5 years in prison for her role. <span class=\"credit\">Jordan Strauss\/Invision\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The Broward County Sheriff\u2019s Office\u00a0and Davie Police SWAT served\u00a0arrest and search warrants at the luxurious Southwest Ranches property as part of an investigation. <span class=\"credit\">CBS News<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kingston, 35, and his mother were\u00a0arrested in May 2024\u00a0after a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/05\/23\/us-news\/rapper-sean-kingstons-fla-home-raided-by-officials\/\">SWAT team raided Kingston\u2019s<\/a> rented mansion<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/06\/03\/us-news\/rapper-sean-kingston-booked-into-florida-jail-in-1-million-fraud-case\/\"> in suburban Fort Lauderdale.<\/a><\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Turner was taken into custody during the raid, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/05\/23\/entertainment\/rapper-sean-kingston-arrested-on-fraud-and-theft-charges-in-california-hours-after-florida-mansion-raided-mother-nabbed\/\">while Kingston was arrested at Fort Irwin,<\/a> an Army training base in California\u2019s Mojave Desert, where he was performing.<\/p>\n<p>According to court records, Kingston used social media from April 2023 to March 2024 to arrange purchases of high-end merchandise.<\/p>\n<p>After negotiating deals, Kingston would invite the sellers to one of his high-end Florida homes and promise to feature them and their products on social media.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Sean Kingston\u2019s mugshot after he was booked into Florida\u2019s Broward County Jail on June 3, 2024. <span class=\"credit\">BCSO\/MEGA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Turner, 62, was accused by the judge of being the \u201cfixer and nerve center\u201d in charge of the scheme as her past convictions for similar crimes painted her as in charge of the scheme. <span class=\"credit\">BCSO\/MEGA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Investigators said that when it came time to pay,<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/05\/29\/us-news\/sean-kingston-agrees-to-return-to-florida-to-face-1m-fraud-charges\/\"> Kingston or his mother <\/a>would text the victims fake wire receipts for the luxury merchandise, which included a bulletproof Escalade, watches and a 19-foot LED TV, investigators said.<\/p>\n<p>When the funds never cleared, victims often contacted Kingston and Turner repeatedly, but were either never paid or received money only after filing lawsuits or contacting law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Kingston shot to fame at age 17 with the 2007 hit \u201cBeautiful Girls,\u201d which laid his lyrics over Ben E. King\u2019s 1961 song \u201cStand By Me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rapper Sean Kingston is scheduled to be sentenced in South Florida on Friday after being convicted of a $1 million fraud scheme. Kingston, whose legal name is Kisean Paul Anderson, and his mother, Janice Eleanor Turner, were each convicted by a federal jury in March of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and four counts of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1961883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[21741,30818,29023,345772,345773],"class_list":["post-1961882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-entertainment","tag-fraud","tag-rappers","tag-sean-kingston","tag-sentencing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Sean-Kingston-to-be-sentenced-in-South-Florida-1-million.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1961882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1961883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1961882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1961882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1961882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}