According to NME, Kingston’s text message to his mother that said, “I told you to make [a] fake receipt,” followed by, “so it [looks] like the transfer will be there.
In a couple [of] days,” was a crucial piece of evidence. Jewelry, Expensive Vehicles, and False Promises During the complex plan, which ran from October 2023 to March 2024,
Some victims made purchases of luxury mattresses, a 232-inch Colossal TV, a bulletproof Cadillac Escalade, and jewels valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars.
According to police, fraudulent transactions were used to pay over $500,000 in jewelry, more than $200,000 from Bank of America, and more than $160,000 from an Escalade dealer.
Moshe Edery, a jeweler, said that he provided Kingston a $285,000 Audemars Piguet watch in exchange for a screenshot of a fraudulent wire transfer,
Future business commitments, and celebrity exposure. In a voice recording played during the trial, Kingston assured him, “I’ll have you at all my video shoots and red carpets.”
