Sean Kingston sentenced to 3.5 years in federal prison in South Florida luxury fraud case

BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. — Rapper and singer Sean Kingston was sentenced Friday to three and a half years in federal prison for his role in a $1 million luxury fraud scheme, marking the last time he would be a free man for years.

The sentence was handed down in a Broward County federal courtroom following Kingston’s March conviction.

Federal prosecutors had sought a five-year sentence to match the punishment given to his mother and co-defendant, Janice Turner, arguing that “they hatched this scheme together.”…

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