Sean Kingston & his mom incarcerated for wire fraud

Sean & Janice locked up.

Blog King, Mass Appeal

FORT LAUDERDALE — “🎵 You’re way too beautiful, girl. That’s why it’ll never work. You’ll have me suicidal, suicidal. When you say it’s over.🎵” Sean Kingston (né Kisean Anderson) and his thieving mother, 62-year-old Janice Turner, were thrown in the slammer after they were found guilty of committing wire fraud. The “Beautiful Girls” singer and Janice were convicted by a jury in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Sean, 35, cried like a lil bitch after hearing the verdict. Then begged the court to protect his mother. Prosecutors said he and Janice “unjustly enriched themselves” by falsely claiming they had executed a bank wire or other monetary transfers as payment for a Cadillac Escalade they purloined from a dealership, $480,000 in bling they stole from a jeweler and other goods. They rented a mansion too. To say Sean and Janice were living beyond their means would be a vast understatement. We’re talking more than $1 million in fraud. Yikes! Sean — born in Miami, Florida — and Janice are lookin’ at 20 years apiece in the penitentiary.

When he was 17, Sean became famous for his 2007 debut single, “Beautiful Girls,” which was sampled from Ben E. King’s 1962 masterpiece “Stand By Me.” Sean’s song spent four weeks as No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. “He spent his childhood in Jamaica, which gave him his stage name and his command of patois,” music critic Kelefa Sanneh wrote in The New York Times.

“But his version of thug love (‘Girl, I know it’s rough, but come with me/We can take a trip to the ’hood’) makes it sound as if he’s trying too hard, or not hard enough.”

Sadly, ripping people off is nothin’ new to Janice.

If you recall, she served 16 months in prison after pleading guilty in 2006 to bank fraud and filing fraudulent loan applications.

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