Popular American singer Sean Kingston has been charged with participating in a $1 million wire fraud scheme.
Kingston and his mother, Janice Turner, were indicted on Friday in a Miami federal court.
The scheme allegedly involved making fake payments through banks, resulting in over $1 million in property being fraudulently acquired.
They were charged with one count of conspiracy to commit fraud and five counts of wire fraud. They allegedly tried to defraud sellers of high-end specialty vehicles, jewelry, and other goods using fake documents.
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida stated that they “unjustly enriched themselves by falsely representing that they had executed monetary payment transfers.”
Kingston was previously arrested in May 2024 in California. On the same day, his South Florida mansion was raided, and his mother was also arrested.
