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Rapper Sean Kingston to be sentenced for $1 million fraud scheme in South Florida
Sean Kingston and his mother used fake wire receipts to fraudulently obtain luxury goods worth $1 million, with his mother sentenced to five years in prison last month.
- In federal court in Fort Lauderdale, Sean Kingston is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday after a jury convicted him of a $1 million fraud scheme.
- Sean Kingston is scheduled to be sentenced after a federal jury convicted him in March of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and four counts of wire fraud, despite his not guilty plea.
- According to investigators, from April 2023 to March 2024, Kingston used social media to arrange merchandise and sent fake wire receipts for a bulletproof Escalade, watches, and a 19-foot LED TV.
- U.S. Judge David Leibowitz rescheduled Kingston's sentencing after convicting him of a $1 million fraud scheme, with Kingston ordered to house arrest with electronic monitoring.
- The scheme spanned until March 2024 before law enforcement intervened, targeting a jewelry business, luxury bed company, used luxury and exotic car dealership, and luxury microLED TV company; Kingston was arrested in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in May 2024.
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