Beautiful Girls hitmaker, Sean Kingston, and his 61-year-old mother, Janice Turner, have pleaded not guilty to fraud. They have been accused of of falsely claiming they had sent bank transfers for luxury items worth more than $1 million, but on Monday they denied the charges of organised fraud and grand theft during an arraignment hearing in front of Broward Circuit Judge Ernest Kollra. According to the Sun Sentinel newspaper, bond had already been set at $90,000 in a previous hearing and the judge didn't make any changes.
The United States Attorney's Office in the Southern District of Florida, previously explained the 34-year-old rapper and his mother's charges stem from their alleged involvement in "a scheme to defraud victim sellers of high-end specialty vehicles, jewellery, and other goods purchased by the defendants through the use of fraudulent documents". The office went on to state that the pair "unjustly enriched themselves by falsely representing that they had executed bank wire or other monetary payment transfers as payment for vehicles, jewellery, and other goods purchased by the defendants, when in fact no such bank wire or other monetary payment transfers had been executed by the purported banks, and thereafter the defendants retained or attempted to retain the vehicles, jewellery and other goods despite non-payment. Through the execution of this scheme, the defendants obtained in excess of $1 million in property.
" The pair are accused of having stolen almost $5.