The rapper Sean Kingston and his mother are indicted for federal charges in an the alleged fraud scheme worth $1 million

Singer and rapper Sean Kingston and his mother have been charged on the streets of South Florida on federal charges of the committing of greater than one million dollars of fraud.

MIAMI — Rapper and singer Sean Kingston and his mother have been indicted in South Florida on federal charges of committing more than $1 million worth of fraud.

Kingston 34, along with his mother, the 61-year-old Janice Turner, made their first appearances before a federal judge, as per court documents. The Miami grand jury handed down an indictment last month, accusing Kingston as well as his mom of taking part in an elaborate scheme to defraud people of luxury vehicles, jewelry, and other items by making use of fake documents.

Kingston was arrested in the Broward County jail on similar charges from the state last month, following an arrest on the 23rd of May on the premises of Fort Irwin, an Army training center located in the California’s Mojave Desert where he was performing. Turner was detained the same day her son was arrested was detained by an SWAT team searched his house located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

As per the Federal indictment Kingston and Turner falsifiedly claimed they had arranged bank wires or other transfer for expensive products when in fact no such transfers occurred. The investigation revealed that Kingston and Turner kept more than one million dollars worth of illegally bought things despite not having paid for the items.

The warrants for state charges indicate that from October through March, they took $500,000 worth of jewellery plus greater than $200k in cash from Bank of America, $160,000 from an Cadilac Escalade dealer and more than $100,000 at First Republic Bank and $86,000 from the manufacturer of custom beds.

The Jamaican American performer had a No. 1 smash in 2007 with “Beautiful Girls” in 2007 and also collaborated in 2007 with Justin Bieber on the song “Eenie Meenie.”

Robert Rosenblatt, an attorney for Kingston and his mother, has yet to respond to a request for information via The Associated Press. He’s previously said that they look at the possibility of resolving the allegations and that they were “confident of a successful resolution.”

Kingston who’s official name was Kisean Anderson was serving a two-year sentence of probation for stealing property.

His mother was convicted at the time of 2006 for bank fraud and taking more than $160,000 in cash and was sentenced to more than 1.5 time in prison as per the federal court documents.