A grand jury charged Kingston and Turner each with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and five counts of wire fraud
Sean Kingston and his mother, Janice Turner, face decades in prison if convicted by a federal grand jury on wire fraud charges.
According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Florida, on Friday, July 19, a Miami grand jury charged Kingston (real name Kisean Anderson), 34, and Janice Turner, 61, each with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and five counts of wire fraud for their alleged “involvement in a scheme to defraud victim sellers of high-end specialty vehicles, jewelry, and other goods purchased by the defendants through the use of fraudulent documents.”
If convicted, each defendant faces up to 20 years in prison on each count, per the release.
The department alleged that the mother-son duo “unjustly enriched themselves by falsely representing that they had executed bank wire or other monetary payment transfers” as payment for the goods “when in fact no such bank wire or other monetary payment transfers had been executed by the purported banks.”
Arrest warrants released by the Broward County Sheriff’s Office and previously reviewed by PEOPLE allege that the duo stole nearly $500,000 in jewelry, $160,000 from an Escalade dealer, $86,000 from the maker of customized beds, and more.
“Through the execution of this scheme, the defendants obtained in excess of $1 million in property,” said the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Florida.
