The singer Sean Kingston and her mother face music for a program of several months that the federal prosecutors said that targeted companies selling high -end products and has frauded them by more than a million dollars.
An Florida jury found the pop star of “beautiful girls” and her 62 -year -old mother, Janice Turner, each guilty of a conspiracy chief to commit fraud by wire and four leaders of fraud, according to legal documents examined by Times on Monday. They were sentenced less than a year after the Swat officers Kingston rented raid praise in southern Florida.
Turner remains in detention in Miami and Kingston (born Kisean Paul Anderson) is in force until the conviction, which is set for July 11. The maximum sentence for each accusation is 20 years.
A legal representative of the 35 -year -old singer and his mother did not immediately respond to the request for comments from the Times.
Swat officers went down to Kingston's home in Florida last May. The singer and his parents have been accused of having framed more than $ 480,000 in a person and, others, a Cadillac Climbing worth almost $ 160,000 and furniture costing more than $ 86,500. Prosecutors said Kingston and his mother also stole more than $ 200,000 in Bank of America and more than $ 100,000 at the First Republic Bank – allegations they initially denied.
Turner was arrested during the Raid and Kingston was Arrested shortly after near FT. Irwin in the county of San Bernardino. A federal great jury accused Kingston and Turner in July. The federal prosecutors said that the mother-son duo “was unjustly enriched” by “wrongly representing”, they made banking threads and other forms of payment for the goods but kept the “vehicles, jewelry and other goods despite non-payment”. They pleaded not guilty to August accusations.
The jury would have returned its verdict after 3 1/2 hours of deliberation on Friday. Kingston and his mother removed tears while the verdict fell NBC News. Kingston also urged the marshals to “protect my mother” while they were taking Turner in police custody, Miami News Outlet WPLG-10 reported.
The director of the Times editorial library, Cary Schneider, contributed to this report.
