Montreal Man's Prison Sentence for Student Loan Scam

0:00It's March 26, Canada news today starts now, AI powered and ready. A 29-year-old man from Montreal who defrauded the Quebec government out of 158,000 dollars in a student loan scam has been ordered to serve the rest of his conditional sentence in prison. Maurice Jonathan Cout-Andon got two years less a day in the community back on June 21, 2024, after pleading guilty to fraud as part of a scheme that stole over $700,000 total. He was allowed to live at the Toronto home of former Raptors player Chris Boucher, where he worked as a personal assistant and cleaned houses for other team members. That set up met his sentence conditions for a fixed address and job. Last year, Cout-Andon faced charges for breaching those rules twice, once for missing check-ins and ignoring curfew calls, and another for not being at. His listed workplace. The first time, a judge just extended the sentence, but this week, Quebec court judge Tieri-Nedon ruled he could no longer stay out, saying he failed.

1:06To follow through on the leniency given. Meanwhile, his co-accused Jordison Tellfort, 31, already served four years behind bars for the same case. With his sentence wrapping up in July, this marks the end of a chance at community service that didn't pan out, highlighting how strict courts are, getting on repeat violations.