Three South Florida men who disguised their moving broker firms as actual moving companies have been kicked out of business and ordered to pay over $3.8 million.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier’s office announced the five judgments that did the above on Friday, two weeks after the largest and last judgment came down in a Broward County court. The money will come out of the pockets of Daniel Metz and Rudolph Rice of Coral Springs and Lake Worth Beach’s Charles Abrams, the men accused of violating the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act.
“Moving brokers are sales teams that book your move and sell it to an actual moving company,” the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration says on the “Movers vs. Brokers” part of its website. “A moving broker is not a mover. A broker does not assume responsibility for, and is not authorized to transport, your household goods. Brokers do not have moving trucks or professional movers.”…