The owner of a Massachusetts driving school faces federal charges after being accused of paying up to $30,000 in bribes to help secure driver's licenses for unqualified drivers. Carlos Cardoso, 70, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston on five counts of honest services mail fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit honest services mail fraud. The indictment alleges that his co-conspirator was a road test examiner at the Brockton Registry of Motor Vehicles. Cardoso is accused of taking money from the holders of learner's permits and using those funds to pay cash bribes to the co-conspirator, the indictment states. In exchange for the money, the co-conspirator submitted passing scores even if the applicant did not earn the pass the test. "Some permittees took a perfunctory road test. Others did not take a road test at all," the indictment states. From approximately August 2019 through April 2021, the bribes totaled between $20,000 and $30,000, according to the complaint. Acting United States Attorney Joshua Levy's office said the fraud resulted in the RMV sending driver's licenses to unqualified applicants. Cardoso's indictment follows a series of other criminal cases involving related behavior alleged at the Brockton RMV.In March, Levy's office announced that a driving instructor pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit honest services mail fraud. Last year a Taunton woman pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy, the owner of a Brockton driving school pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy and a former manager of the Brockton RMV pleaded guilty to two counts of extortion and one count of conspiring to commit extortion.