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The mother-son duo were convicted of\u00a0wire fraud and theft earlier this year<\/p>\n
\n\tSean Kingston\u2019s mother, Janice Turner, was <\/strong>sentenced to five years in prison and three years on probation after she and her son were both convicted on\u00a0wire fraud and theft charges in March. The decision arrived days after her lawyer requested a shorter prison sentence, citing health issues and \u201cminimal criminal history.<\/p>\n \n\tTurner received her sentence on Wednesday during a hearing in Miami federal court. A hearing on restitution is set for October. Turner apologized to the judge for her conduct after the hearing. \u201cI\u2019m sorry. My intention was to keep my son afloat in this difficult industry,\u201d she said. \u201cThey used him and abused him. I am begging for mercy for me and my son.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tIn a court filing dated July 19 and obtained by Rolling Stone<\/em>, Janice Turner\u2019s lawyers asked Judge David S. Leibowitz to sentence her to only 30 months. \u201cMs. Turner will go to prison; she has\u00a0earned<\/em>\u00a0the prison sentence,\u201d wrote her attorneys in the filing. \u201cHowever, a sentence greater than thirty months is a waste of taxpayer resources based upon the history and characteristics of Ms. Turner.\u201d Her legal team argued that the punishment was excessive for a 62-year-old with \u201ca myriad of health issues\u201d and \u201cminimal criminal history,\u201d while also citing letters from supporters who called her a \u201cpillar in her community.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tAttorneys for Turner also requested that the judge recommend that she be sent to a federal prison as close as possible to Miami, stating that the \u201clove and support resulting from Ms. Turner\u2019s family and friends being able to visit her while in custody will allow her a greater chance of positive matriculation through the prison system.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tPer documents\u00a0filed\u00a0in the U.S. District Court\u2019s Southern District of Florida last year, Kingston and his mother allegedly took part in a \u201cscheme to defraud victim sellers of high-end specialty vehicles, jewelry, and other goods purchased by the defendants through the use of fraudulent documents.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe pair was accused of having\u00a0\u201cenriched themselves by falsely representing that they had executed bank wire or other monetary payment\u201d on those purchases but never sent the money, procuring over $1 million\u00a0worth of property, per the indictment.<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n \n\tKingston posted bail in April and is currently awaiting sentencing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The mother-son duo were convicted of\u00a0wire fraud and theft earlier this year Sean Kingston\u2019s mother, Janice Turner, was sentenced to five years in prison and three years on probation after she and her son were both convicted on\u00a0wire fraud and theft charges in March. The decision arrived days after her lawyer requested a shorter prison<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[5313,5075,5659,4611,2798,1841,2250,637],"class_list":{"0":"post-12100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-charges","9":"tag-fraud","10":"tag-kingstons","11":"tag-mother","12":"tag-prison","13":"tag-sean","14":"tag-sentenced","15":"tag-years"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n