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Two Jamaican nationals admitted to a court in Providence, Rhode Island in United States this week that they scammed multiple American victims of some US$600,000.
Forty-two-year-old Jason Wedderburn and 38-year-old Kayan Kitson pleaded guilty to the offences of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud before US District Court Judge, Mary S McElroy, in Providence, Rhode Island.
Wedderburn, who pleaded guilty on Tuesday, and Kitson, who pled guilty on Thursday, are both scheduled to be sentenced on October 6, 2021.
The United States Attorney s Office District of Rhode Island, in a release on Thursday, said court documents indicates that, beginning at least May 2018, Wedderburn and Kitson participated in a scheme in which conspirators made unsolicited contact with people in several states, including Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
Published July 15. 2021 11:13PM
PROVIDENCE (AP) Two men have pleaded guilty to participating in a lottery scam that cheated victims in multiple states out of a total of about $600,000, federal prosecutors in Rhode Island said Thursday.
Kayan Kitson, 38, pleaded guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court in Providence to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud. Jason Wedderburn, 42, pleaded guilty to the same charge earlier this week.
The victims, many of them older, received unsolicited contact from the scammers and were told they had won hundreds of thousands of dollars, and in some cases more than $1 million, in a lottery, prosecutors said.