Local Journalism Initiative
A Saint John man who fraudulently collected his mother's old age benefits for almost eight years after her death has been given a two-year community sentence. Keith Ernest Raynes, 67, of Macaulay Avenue, was sentenced Wednesday in Saint John provincial court for fraud over $5,000 against the Government of Canada from May 20, 2012, to March 15, 2021. As part of his decision, Judge Claude Haché told the court that Service Canada's financial crimes unit notified police in July of 2021 that it had f