Former driving school owner Carlos Cardoso, 72, of Brockton, was sentenced to two years of probation for allegedly bribing RMV road test examiners to pass his unqualified students.
According to the U.S. District Attorney’s Office,
Cardoso, the former owner of a driving school, paid cash bribes totaling more than $20,000 to a road test examiner at the Brockton RMV service center to misrepresent that certain driver’s license applicants had passed their road test when, in fact, they had not. Some of the applicants did not even show up to take the test. As a result of the fraud, the RMV mailed driver’s licenses to unqualified applicants.
In May 2024, Cardoso pleaded guilty to one count of honest services mail fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit honest services mail fraud.
In addition to his two years of supervised release, the judge ordered Cardoso to pay $5,500 in fines. The first six months of his probation will be spent under house arrest.