Auto transport company owner pleads guilty to range of fraud crimes

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MICHAEL CHAVES, owner of CAT Inc., an automobile transport company in East Providence, has pleaded guilty to charges of falsification of records, aggravated identity theft, five counts of bank fraud, two counts of wire fraud, and tax evasion. / COURTESY CAROL M. HIGHSMITH
MICHAEL CHAVES, owner of CAT Inc., an automobile transport company in East Providence, has pleaded guilty to charges of falsification of records, aggravated identity theft, five counts of bank fraud, two counts of wire fraud, and tax evasion. / COURTESY CAROL M. HIGHSMITH
PROVIDENCE – Michael Chaves, owner of CAT Inc., an automobile transport company in East Providence, pleaded guilty to charges of falsification of records, aggravated identity theft, five counts of bank fraud, and two counts of wire fraud, and tax evasion, in U.S. District Court in Providence Friday. Chaves confessed to continuing to operate a fleet…

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