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A Florida jeweler made a stance Wednesday in a $1 million fraud trial in Sean Kingston, telling jurors he was deceived by singer and his mother in an alleged luxury watch scam. However, the wire transfer he received from Kingston's mother Janice Turner was allegedly fake. “I will have your videos on all the video shoots and on the red carpet,” Kingston heard assurance in a voiceover memo played for the court. In another message, he told Edery: “I've been with you all my life.” But the promised payment never came. Instead, Edery said Turner sent him a screenshot of the confirmation that appeared to be a wire transfer. When he brought the documents to the bank, he was told that it didn't look real. “I was cheated,” Edry recalled his thoughts. The consequences of the deal hurt his reputation and ultimately cost his job, he said. During cross-examination, Kingston's legal team questioned why Edry did not seek employer approval before handing over the expensive timepiece. He replied that employees have the ability to obtain safes and are trusted to reach a deal on behalf of the business. Kingston and Turner were charged last year for five counts of wire fraud and one conspiracy offender with wire fraud. Prosecutors said the pair used fake documents to buy more than $1 million in goods, including jewelry, luxury cars and electronics, between October 2023 and March 2022. The singer was arrested in California in May 2024, and Turner was detained in a South Florida raid on the same day.
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