Sean Kingston has officially been sentenced in his federal wire fraud case ... receiving a sentence close to what his lawyers asked for. The rapper was sentenced in a Florida courtroom Friday to 42 months -- which works out to 3.

Last March, Kingston was convicted by a federal jury of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and four counts of wire fraud.

A Florida jury convicted the hip-hop artist and his mother in a federal fraud case that centered on luxury goods, which prosecutors said that Mr. Kingston did not pay for.