Jeff, I might be able to help you here ...

you don't seem to understand that you actually did get scammed, that psycho didn't get any of your cash, but he sold your reputation, which was apparently worth $10 million ... think about it

if you would have done such a project on your own, there would have been at least 10 million, probably more once it was working, this while that guy took your reputation and ruined it ... and it's still haunting you

you need to do something .... not sure what would be the best way to solve this, but here's my suggestion;

start a series about it; make a bunch of steemit posts about what happened and ... give whatever $$$ SD the posts make to a fund to pay for the lawyers to get that mess solved ... save your reputation!

just a suggestion ...