Sean Kingston has posted bail and is no longer behind bars, after the rapper and his mother were found guilty in their $1 million federal fraud case late last month.
A lawyer for the 35-year-old “Beautiful Girls” singer, born Kisean Anderson, told TMZ on Tuesday that Kingston’s $100,000 bond “has been posted and he is in the process of being released.”
He was still in custody at the Federal Detention Center in Miami earlier in the daily, when he’d been unable to come up with the necessary cash. Some unnamed famous friends were trying to help with the funds, according to the outlet.
Kingston is now once again under house arrest, with electronic monitoring, and is required to surrender his passport. His mother is considered a flight risk and will remain in federal custody until the two are sentenced on July 11.
Last summer, Kingston and his 61-year-old mother, Janice Turner, were each indicted on five counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud as part of an organized scheme to defraud luxury companies out of high-end goods.
“The defendants unjustly enriched themselves by falsely representing that they had executed bank wire or other monetary payment transfers … [then] retained or attempted to retain the vehicles, jewelry and other goods despite non-payment,” federal prosecutors said when announcing the indictment. “Through the execution of this scheme, the defendants obtained in excess of $1 million in property.”
Late last month, after just three-and-a-half hours of jury deliberation, the pair were found guilty of all charges. Both Kingston and Turner are facing up to 20 years in prison on each count.
A separate lawyer for the singer previously told TMZ that Kingston went against counsel’s advice when he refused to take a plea deal.
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