This week it was reported that recording artist Sean Kingston was hoping for home confinement after his conviction on felony fraud charges [click here if you missed that].
Today Sean was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison and immediately taken into custody...
From WMTW
Rapper Sean Kingston was sentenced on Friday to three and a half years in prison after being convicted of a $1 million fraud scheme in South Florida.
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 wire fraud. U.S. Judge David Leibowitz sentenced Turner last month to five years in prison.
The same judge sentenced Kingston, who was immediately taken into custody. Leibowitz also ordered that a restitution hearing should be held within 90 days. Kingston’s sentence is to be followed by three years of supervised release.
Kingston, 35, and his mother were arrested in May 2024 after a SWAT team raided Kingston’s rented mansion in suburban Fort Lauderdale. Turner was taken into custody during the raid, while Kingston was arrested at Fort Irwin, an Army training base in California’s Mojave Desert, where he was performing.
Kingston, who was born in Florida and raised in Jamaica, shot to fame at age 17 with the 2007 hit “Beautiful Girls,” which laid his lyrics over Ben E. King's 1961 song “Stand By Me.” His other hits include 2007's “Take You There” and 2009's “Fire Burning.”
8 comments:
Who's paying back all that money he stole? Jail time does not cover other ppls expenses. LOLO
Crime never really pays not sure why people believe it does.
Pls change his picture in future post. It's very hard on my eyes or use some kind of filter that blurs his grill.
Right where he belongs.
I don't know how that song Beautiful girl was considered a hit, it actually sucked!
I almost feel bad for dude. He's not someone that was led astray, he was literally raised to think that scamming was ok. His janky mama set him up for failure, from the gate. I don't feel bad for people who know better, but when this is all you know, this becomes normal. If his mother had done a better job, he may have stood a chance.
He was old enough to know his mama was a criminal. This is on him.
Ok can this topic go away?
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