Sean Kingston is trading flashy chains for prison stripes. The “Fire Burning” rapper was just sentenced to three and a half years in federal prison after being found guilty of pulling off a $1 million fraud scheme alongside his mother, Janice Turner. After he gets out, he’ll be under supervised release for another three years.
Back in May 2024, Turner was arrested when a SWAT team raided Kingston’s rented mansion in Southwest Ranches, Florida. Kingston, whose real name is Kisean Anderson, was arrested soon after at a military base in California.
Prosecutors say the duo scammed their way into luxury items, like a pricey SUV, high-end jewelry, designer watches, and even a custom wall-sized TV, by faking wire transfers.
“I told you to make [a] fake receipt,” Kingston texted his mom. “So it [looks] like the transfer will be there in a couple [of] days.”
Kingston’s lawyer tried to explain his client’s poor decisions by saying he’s “a soft guy who grew up poor when he rose to fame overnight,” and claimed Kingston had “no idea how to run a business.”
Still, it only took the jury three hours to decide. And on top of the federal sentence, Kingston and Turner still face state fraud charges.
