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Sean Kingston will serve nearly four years in prison over a fraud scheme.

The entertainer arranged purchases of expensive goods on social media and Kingston or his mom would send phony wire receipts and occasionally wouldn’t pay what they owed.

Kingston’s mother was sentenced to five years in jail in July.

Sean Kingston was sentenced Friday to three and a half years in prison for his role in a $1 million fraud scheme.

Kingston apologized to the judge and said he learned from his actions. The Associated Press reported that the 35-year-old singer, whose legal name is Kisean Paul Anderson, and his mother, Janice Eleanor Turner, were each convicted by a federal jury in March of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and four counts of wire fraud. Turner was sentenced in July to

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