In which Kingston tricked companies into delivering costly products before being paid by using his social media popularity and celebrity position.
While fake wire transfers were made as purported payment, his mother often took care of the logistics, organizing delivery information and corresponding with dealers. During closing statements,
Humberto Dominguez, Turner’s lawyer, said that Turner was just attempting to protect her kid and that the case was about a woman’s intuition. Prosecutors, however, presented an other account.
According to the New York Post, Turner previously spent 18 months in jail after entering a guilty plea in a 2006 bank fraud case involving more than $160,000.
The judge’s decision to hold her was largely influenced by her evidence on the stand, in which she acknowledged fabricating wire transfers to postpone payments.
