Timeshare Freedom Group: Diamond and Bluegreen Lawsuits, Complaints

Timeshare Freedom Group, a Nevada-based timeshare exit company owned by Jordan Salkin, was the target of two federal lawsuits from major developers alleging its cancellation service was a fraud. The Timeshare Freedom Group lawsuit brought by Bluegreen Vacations ended in a default judgment on June 20, 2023: the court found the company liable for tortious interference, awarded Bluegreen $717,292 in disgorgement damages, and imposed a permanent injunction barring further contact with Bluegreen owners.¹ A parallel Diamond Resorts case was partially settled in mid-2022.²

What the Developers Said the Company Was Actually Doing

According to the Diamond Resorts complaint, the “service” Timeshare Freedom Group sold consisted primarily of telling owners to stop paying on their contracts, while the company collected “thousands — sometimes tens of thousands — of dollars in upfront fees” that were split among a network of participants.³ The lawsuit alleged this left customers in default and facing foreclosure rather than in any legitimate cancellation process.

The company advertised on radio, promising to help owners regardless of whether they had bought “decades ago or days ago,” and painted timeshare companies as entities that “don’t care” and take advantage of owners, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.⁴ The company’s own FAQ, however, said cancellation could take “up to a year if not more,” and told customers they still had to keep paying maintenance, mortgage, and assessment fees until ownership was formally transferred back.

A central piece of the alleged scheme, according to Diamond Resorts, was the appearance of a real legal process. Timeshare Freedom Group referred customers to California criminal defense attorney Michael A. Molfetta and his firm, Molfetta Law, which the complaint said sent “perfunctory” letters of representation to developers. Molfetta’s name and signature were sometimes used on letters where non-lawyers had done the underlying work, the complaint alleged, giving customers the impression a licensed attorney was handling their case when he was not.³

The Diamond Resorts Lawsuit

Diamond Resorts filed its federal lawsuit on September 23, 2020, in the U.S. District Court in Florida (Case No. 6:2020cv01668), naming 13 defendants in what it called a timeshare “cancellation ring.”³ Alongside Timeshare Freedom Group and Jordan Salkin, the complaint named Michael A. Molfetta and Molfetta Law; John E. Mortimer and his companies Middle Earth Sales and Service and Middle Earth Ltd.; and attorney William Saliba and his Florida corporation Solomon Cross, which the complaint said was not a law firm but presented itself as one in communications with developers. Solomon Cross was dissolved in January 2020.

The suit alleged fraudulent business practices and false advertising. Claims were partially settled in mid-2022, and Molfetta and Molfetta Law were dismissed from the case at that point.²

The Bluegreen Default Judgment and Permanent Injunction

The Bluegreen case produced the sharper outcome. Bluegreen Vacations sued Freedom Consumer Services, LLC (doing business as Timeshare Freedom Group), Systema Marketing, Inc., Jordan Salkin, and several other defendants in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida (Case No. 1:2020cv25318).⁵

Timeshare Freedom Group and Salkin did not mount a defense. On June 20, 2023, the court entered a default judgment finding Freedom Consumer Services and Systema Marketing liable on multiple counts, including tortious interference with Bluegreen’s customer contracts. The court found the defendants had induced Bluegreen owners to breach their contracts and stop paying while falsely claiming the contracts could be legally cancelled, causing irreparable harm by pushing owners into foreclosure. Damages were set at $717,292 in disgorgement against the two companies.¹

The next day, June 21, 2023, Judge Beth Bloom issued a permanent injunction. The defendants are barred from contacting Bluegreen owners, marketing timeshare exit services to them, preparing correspondence to Bluegreen on their behalf, or referring them to other exit companies. The court kept jurisdiction to enforce the order through sanctions and civil fines.

What Customers Reported

The Better Business Bureau rated Timeshare Freedom Group “D-” and noted the company had failed to respond to 16 complaints. The company was not BBB-accredited.⁶

Customer complaints followed a repeating pattern. People said the company went quiet after collecting payment. Cases were “approved” and then dragged on for years without resolution. Some customers received foreclosure notices from their timeshare companies while supposedly still inside Timeshare Freedom Group’s process. Assigned “Client Managers” turned over constantly, and paperwork had to be resubmitted. On the money-back guarantee, at least one customer reported that the company requested a 180-day extension of the guarantee period and then delivered neither a cancellation nor a refund once that extension ran out.

Jordan Salkin’s Separate Criminal Case

Salkin, who owned and directed both Timeshare Freedom Group and Systema Marketing, has a criminal case in Orange County, California, unrelated to the timeshare lawsuits. He was convicted of attempted murder and domestic violence in February 2019 in a case in which the victim reportedly fell into a coma.⁷ Judge Cheri Pham overturned the conviction in January 2020 after finding that prosecutors had failed to turn over 3,600 pages of medical records to the defense.

In June 2020, while awaiting a new trial, Salkin was charged with two counts of criminal threats and domestic violence over a separate incident involving a live-in girlfriend, with a sentencing enhancement for committing a crime while out on bail. He posted a $2.5 million bond and pleaded not guilty.⁸ The case was listed as pending at the most recent available court update.

Where This Fits in the Wider Timeshare-Exit Crackdown

The actions against Timeshare Freedom Group sit inside a broader enforcement wave. In a separate Diamond Resorts case against Pandora Marketing (doing business as Timeshare Compliance) and Intermarketing Media (doing business as Resort Advisory Group), a federal court ruled in March 2023 that the defendants violated the Lanham Act by falsely advertising that they cancelled contracts through legal means. The court found the “cancellations” were “common, run-of-the-mill defaults” produced by telling owners to stop paying.⁹

State attorneys general have pursued similar operations. Washington’s attorney general settled with Reed Hein & Associates (Timeshare Exit Team) for $2.61 million in 2020.¹⁰ Minnesota’s attorney general announced settlements with three exit companies in January 2025, securing $269,378 in consumer refunds.¹¹ In April 2026, a federal court ordered Christopher Lee Carroll, described by the Department of Justice as the “mastermind” of a scheme that defrauded more than 11,000 consumers, to pay over $140 million and permanently banned him from the industry.¹²

Regulators have flagged a consistent set of tactics across these cases: mass-mailing and radio marketing, high-pressure sales presentations using scare claims (such as children inheriting timeshare debt), large upfront fees, and the core instruction to stop paying, which leads to foreclosure and credit damage rather than a legitimate exit.¹¹

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