Carlos Rafael's Fleet Continues to Fish Despite Guilty Plea
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Cape Cod Times] By Doug Fraser - August 14, 2017
New England fishermen are wondering how the fishing fleet owned by New Bedford fishing mogul Carlos Rafael continues to fish nearly five months after he pleaded guilty on March 30 in federal district court in Boston to 28 offenses, including conspiracy, false labeling of fish, bulk cash smuggling, tax evasion and falsifying federal records.
“It’s the question I’m asked nearly every day by the people I work for,” said Maggie Raymond, executive director of Associated Fisheries of Maine, representing fishing boats that fish the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank.
Those vessels include many Rafael agreed to forfeit in his plea deal for their role in his scheme to sell fish he didn’t have enough quota to catch, under the name of species for which he had ...
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