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The ‘Codfather’ is back in business
CARLOS RAFAEL made an offer the bank couldn’t refuse. It was February 2021, and Rafael, the infamous New Bedford fishing mogul known as “the Codfather,” was serving out the final stretch of an almost four-year prison sentence. He and his two daughters …