Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (AP) – Rapper Scene Kingston is to be sentenced in South Florida on Friday after being convicted of a $ 1 million fraud scheme.
Kingston, whose legal name is Kisian Paul Anderson, and his mother, Janis Ellenor Turner, each was convicted by a federal jury for conspiring in four cases of wire fraud and wire fraud in March. US Judge David Libovitz sentenced Turner to five years in jail last month, but Kingston’s sentence was resumed.
Kingston, 35, and her mother were Arrested in May 2024 A SWAT team raided Kingston’s rented mansion at suburban Fort Lauderdel. The turner was taken into custody during the raid, while Kingston was arrested at the Army Training Aadhaar Fort Irwin in the Mojave Desert in California, where he was protesting.
According to court records, Kingston used social media from April 2023 to March 2024 to arrange for high end goods purchase. After interacting on deals, Kingston will invite vendors to one of their high -end Florida homes and promise to present them and their products on social media.
Investigators said that when the time to pay, Kingston or his mother would recite fake wire receipts to the victims for luxury goods, including a bulletproof escalade, watches and 19-meters (6-meters) TVs, the investigators said.
When the funds were never cleaned, the victims often contacted Kingston and Turner repeatedly, but either paid or received after filing the cases or contacting law enforcement.
Kingston shot fame at the age of 17 with the 2007 hit “Beautiful Girls”, who Ben E. King’s songs on the 1961 song “Stand by Me”.
The Associated Press