Major Morgan III, now 30, was first arrested by the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office in Tennessee in August 2024. (Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office)
A grand jury has indicted two local contractors on 34 criminal counts — including racketeering, theft, money laundering and tax evasion — after finding evidence that they conned dozens of homeowners into paying them five- and six-figure sums for work that was never done.
The Dec. 18 indictments of Major Morgan III, 30, and Dillon Rosenbrook, 32, are the most serious charges to be leveled against local contractors in recent years. They were filed a year after BusinessDen first reported on Morgan and Rosenbrook’s trail of jilted customers.
“This alleged pattern of deception left homeowners with unfinished home remodeling projects and significant financial losses,” Attorney General Phil Weiser said in a statement.
Lawyers for the defendants, who have not yet entered pleas, did not answer requests for comment this week. Morgan is in a Boulder jail; Rosenbrook is free on a $50,000 bond.
Calling it “an illicit fraud scheme,” prosecutors allege that Morgan and Rosenbrook’s company, M3 Designs, pocketed more than $1 million from customers across the Denver metro area between 2023 and 2025, then failed to complete or even begin the work they were paid for.
At times, the duo allegedly preyed upon their victims’ Christian faith, using their shared religion to ensnare a Parker couple who lost $169,000 and a spray tan studio in Castle Rock that paid for a build-out that was never finished. Prosecutors list 25 victims in the indictment.
“Morgan improperly used customer funds to support his and his then-fiancée, Destiny Ruden’s, lavish lifestyle,” according to last month’s indictment. Ruden, a prolific TikTok user with 31,700 followers, routinely posted about the luxury goods and vacations Morgan bought her.
“This is definitely my ‘get prettier, have fun & get rich’ era,” she said in one video. In another, she displayed a $105,000 check written to M3 Designs and called herself a millionaire.
Dillon Rosenbrook (Boulder County Sheriff’s Office)
Morgan, a former Castle Pines resident who now lives in Tennessee, was the alleged ringleader of the fraud scheme, according to prosecutors. He faces 29 counts to Rosenbrook’s 14.
Both face accusations of tax evasion and filing false tax returns. Morgan failed to pay taxes on the more than $1 million he obtained from customers in 2023 and 2024, and Rosenbrook was not taxed on the $70,000 he was paid, according to prosecutors. That allegedly allowed Rosenbrook to obtain $10,000 in child tax credits he did not deserve.
Morgan alone is charged with money laundering. Prosecutors say he controlled bank accounts that customer deposits went in and out of and his “seemingly random pattern of transfers and expenditures” were designed to make “customer funds more difficult to trace.”
Morgan was first indicted in August 2024 and faces charges in Boulder and Douglas County, in addition to the December charges. Rosenbrook faces only the December counts.
Major Morgan III, now 30, was first arrested by the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office in Tennessee in August 2024. (Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office)
A grand jury has indicted two local contractors on 34 criminal counts — including racketeering, theft, money laundering and tax evasion — after finding evidence that they conned dozens of homeowners into paying them five- and six-figure sums for work that was never done.
The Dec. 18 indictments of Major Morgan III, 30, and Dillon Rosenbrook, 32, are the most serious charges to be leveled against local contractors in recent years. They were filed a year after BusinessDen first reported on Morgan and Rosenbrook’s trail of jilted customers.
“This alleged pattern of deception left homeowners with unfinished home remodeling projects and significant financial losses,” Attorney General Phil Weiser said in a statement.
Lawyers for the defendants, who have not yet entered pleas, did not answer requests for comment this week. Morgan is in a Boulder jail; Rosenbrook is free on a $50,000 bond.
Calling it “an illicit fraud scheme,” prosecutors allege that Morgan and Rosenbrook’s company, M3 Designs, pocketed more than $1 million from customers across the Denver metro area between 2023 and 2025, then failed to complete or even begin the work they were paid for.
At times, the duo allegedly preyed upon their victims’ Christian faith, using their shared religion to ensnare a Parker couple who lost $169,000 and a spray tan studio in Castle Rock that paid for a build-out that was never finished. Prosecutors list 25 victims in the indictment.
“Morgan improperly used customer funds to support his and his then-fiancée, Destiny Ruden’s, lavish lifestyle,” according to last month’s indictment. Ruden, a prolific TikTok user with 31,700 followers, routinely posted about the luxury goods and vacations Morgan bought her.
“This is definitely my ‘get prettier, have fun & get rich’ era,” she said in one video. In another, she displayed a $105,000 check written to M3 Designs and called herself a millionaire.
Dillon Rosenbrook (Boulder County Sheriff’s Office)
Morgan, a former Castle Pines resident who now lives in Tennessee, was the alleged ringleader of the fraud scheme, according to prosecutors. He faces 29 counts to Rosenbrook’s 14.
Both face accusations of tax evasion and filing false tax returns. Morgan failed to pay taxes on the more than $1 million he obtained from customers in 2023 and 2024, and Rosenbrook was not taxed on the $70,000 he was paid, according to prosecutors. That allegedly allowed Rosenbrook to obtain $10,000 in child tax credits he did not deserve.
Morgan alone is charged with money laundering. Prosecutors say he controlled bank accounts that customer deposits went in and out of and his “seemingly random pattern of transfers and expenditures” were designed to make “customer funds more difficult to trace.”
Morgan was first indicted in August 2024 and faces charges in Boulder and Douglas County, in addition to the December charges. Rosenbrook faces only the December counts.
