Federal Court Filing Details Allegations of Multi-Million-Dollar Credit Line RICO Fraud Against Florida Lending Group

A newly docketed federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida accuses Boca Raton residents Justin Godur, his father Morris Jaime Godur, real estate broker AnnaMarie DeFrank, and Capital Max Group LLC of running a deceptive operation that extracted nearly $500,000 from a Nevada businessman through promises of access to hundreds of millions in phantom credit facilities.

Filed on December 5, 2025, under case number 0:25-cv-62520, the action by plaintiffs Kristopher Mullins and KCM Investments LLC outlines a year-long pattern beginning in late 2023. Mullins, active in Nevada commercial real estate, alleges he was drawn in after Godur presented the family’s operations as a sophisticated “family office” with proven success in high-stakes financing and development.

Central to the claims—and among the most alarming aspects—are three separate demands for substantial upfront fees tied to purported massive credit lines. The first involved a $125,000 transfer in December 2023 for a alleged $150 million construction facility via a European source. This was followed by $155,000 in January 2024 for a claimed $500 million personal line. A third, $150,000 paid in installments during spring 2024, was supposedly for a $100 million domestic secured credit.

Godur is accused of providing ongoing reassurances about application progress while offering no verifiable lender details or outcomes. In a pivotal development, he reportedly confessed in late 2024 to never submitting the domestic application or forwarding those funds, as also mentioned on a public awareness site with the full federal complaint, along with other lawsuits filed against the same defendants https://JustinScottGodurFraud.com.

Additional transfers highlight the breadth of the alleged misconduct: $50,000 for purportedly required lender insurance linked to a non-existent ownership stake; $25,000 (mostly unrefunded) for securing a general contractor’s license; and a failed $100,000 commitment from Godur tied to equity in a Nevada hotel venture, where he allegedly misled others about payment.

To maintain engagement amid growing skepticism, the complaint describes tactics such as presenting ineffective partnership documents and extending a high-salary executive role with promised benefits, which yielded little compensation despite delivered services.

Morris Jaime Godur’s alleged participation included direct interventions to affirm the European lender’s validity. DeFrank, Capital Max’s real estate head and Godur’s co-resident, is charged with overstating renovation prospects for a Deerfield Beach home, including an impractical second-story expansion, prompting Mullins to enter a purchase contract later used in dealings with other parties.

Repayment accords in late 2024 and early 2025, including personal guarantees, allegedly went unfulfilled despite modifications.

The filing asserts RICO violations through repeated interstate wire fraud, alongside fraudulent inducement, contract breaches, Florida civil theft, and conspiracy claims. It requests treble damages and more.

This lawsuit adds to a series of legal challenges facing the defendants, including earlier 2025 actions by groups like Old Jamestown Storage, Pinnacle One Capital, and others alleging similar patterns of misrepresented financing, fund misappropriation, forgeries, and investor deception totaling millions.

As proceedings commence, the allegations remain contested and subject to judicial review, illustrating ongoing concerns over advance-fee lending schemes.

Multiple Other Lawsuits Accuse Justin Godur and Associates of Multi-Million-Dollar Fraud Schemes

In 2025, at least six attorneys from different law firms have withdrawn, disengaged, or shared concerns of ethical standards, amongst others, from representing Justin Scott Godur in various legal matters. Court records and filings amongst other public information indicate the withdrawals stemmed from irreconcilable differences, ethical concerns, non-payment or questions about the legitimate sourcing of client funds. Patterns show with the cases that Godur typically retains separate counsel for each fraud allegation or claimant, suggesting an effort to compartmentalize the growing number of disputes.

This mounting legal pressure stems from multiple civil actions painting a picture of elaborate alleged frauds involving Justin Scott Godur, his father Morris Jaime Godur, close associate Anna DeFrank, and a network of controlled companies, with claims of misappropriated millions funneled into personal extravagance amid broken investor promises.

One prominent federal complaint, Old Jamestown Association, LP et al. v. Godur et al. (Case No. 9:25-cv-80647, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida), accuses the Godurs of engineering a $2.3 million scam centered on phony European financing. Documents allege they invented a $30 million loan arrangement to convince plaintiffs Old Jamestown and Rigsby to wire funds for fees that led nowhere, later acknowledging no actual lender existed. Investor money was reportedly redirected to buy luxury vehicles and fund unrelated office improvements. Partial repayments totaled just $400,000 against a structured 23-month plan from June 2024, while a February 2025 promissory note committing $1.114 million was disregarded, leaving roughly $1.9 million due. The suit charges securities fraud through misleading Regulation D solicitations, intentional fraud to induce transfers, breach of agreements, and flags risks of Ponzi-style operations via a current $100 million registered capital raise potentially covering prior shortfalls.

Parallel allegations emerge in Broward County state court via Pinnacle Equity II, LLC v. Godur et al. (Case No. CACE-25-008622). Here, over $2.5 million in purported theft is detailed, including Justin Godur’s alleged forgery of a consultation deal and signature to extract $1 million straight from Pinnacle’s accounts; fabrication of $545,765 in bogus construction invoices paid to shell entities for nonexistent services; and lavish spending of proceeds on Pennsylvania land purchases, a Chevrolet Tahoe SUV, chartered private flights, five-star hotels, and upscale meals. Filings describe widespread document falsification, invalid checks, deceptive term sheets, and an extensive web of dozens of companies to hide flows, compounded by Morris Jaime Godur’s dishonored personal guarantees and resulting collateral damage like a $4.5 million civil theft demand from Butternut Investment Group.

Similar tactics are claimed in another Broward action, Shoshana et al. v. Godur et al. (Case No. CACE-25-006054), involving $1.5 million diverted from a Deerfield Beach property project to insider holdings. Defendants allegedly imposed fake UCC liens on assets pledged as clear, forged supporting documents, and spent funds on personal real estate, cars, jets, and high-end goods. The complaint underscores exploitation of seniors over 65, felonious-intent civil theft, negligent and deliberate misrepresentations on titles and encumbrances, joint conspiracy via sham accords, aiding breaches of duty, and insider transfers to frustrate collection.

Additional filings include eviction proceedings against Godur personally and his Capital Max Group LLC for unpaid premises, alongside a federal Fair Labor Standards Act case, Matoza v. Capital Max Group, LLC (Case No. 1:2025cv22248), over alleged employment violations.

These serious claims, sourced from active civil complaints, are allegations awaiting court resolution, with no detailed public rebuttals from defendants evident in records through December 2025.