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Carlos Rafael, who went to federal prison in November 2017 after pleading guilty to over 20 offenses, including false labeling of fish and falsifying federal records, may be spending his first day out of federal custody since 2017.
Thursday, March 4, is his projected release date, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons website. Rafael, 68, was scheduled to report to prison on Nov. 6, 2017. He was sentenced to 46 months, which would have meant a September 2021 release date.
Rafael was assigned to the Federal Medical Center Devens a federal prison for male inmates that need specialized or long-term medical or mental health care.
On April 30, 2020, he was transferred to community confinement under the Philadelphia Residential Reentry Management office, said Emery Nelson, a spokesperson for the bureau.
Former BASE auction employees implicate owners in “Codfather” scandal
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Two former employees of the Buyers and Sellers Exchange (BASE) in New Bedford, Massachusetts, U.S.A. have alleged that the owners – brothers Raymond and Richard Canastra – were aware of and involved in falsifying quotas performed by the “Codfather” Carlos Rafael.
Rafael pleaded guilty in 2017 to falsifying fish quotas, tax evasion, and conspiracy in the wake of allegations he was connected to a criminal fishing scheme involving the evasion of fishing quotas and the smuggling of profits to Portugal. Following the criminal case, a civil case brought by NOAA ensued, which Rafael settled in August 2019.