Months after being convicted of a high-end fraud scheme in South Florida, Grammy-winning singer Sean Kingston was sentenced on Friday to three-and-a-half years in prison and three years of supervised release.
Kingston had asked if he could self-surrender at a later date due to health issues, but Florida Judge David Leibowitz ordered the 35-year-old “Beautiful Girls” crooner to be taken into custody and begin serving his sentence immediately.
In March, Kingston, whose real name is Kisean Anderson, and his mother, Janice Turner, were each convicted by a federal jury on four counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Authorities charged them with spearheading an organized scheme to defraud multiple luxury companies out of high-end goods.
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