The Consumer Protection Division of Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier’s office has secured a lifetime ban and final judgments totaling more than $4 million settling ongoing litigation related to a moving brokerage scheme.

In announcing the judgments March 21, the AGs office said Charles Abrams, Rudolph Rice and Daniel Metz operated a common enterprise of moving brokerage companies, including Gold Standard Moving and Storage and others.

“We will not tolerate shady moving operators scamming hardworking Floridians,” Uthmeier said in a press release. “Thanks to the work of Senior Assistant Attorney General Josie Warren, Deputy Director Sasha Funk Granai, and Assistant Attorney General Pooneh Charkhian-Martinez of the Consumer Protection Division, these operators and entities are permanently banned from the moving business in Florida and will be paying millions of dollars in monetary judgments.”