Legal Question in Criminal Law in California

My ex friend stole 5000 from me and now I'm finding out he has done this to a handful of woman. He pretended to be my very best friend for a year and I trusted him with my life so when he said he new a guy who was actually a mutual acquaintance Could help me buy a car for cheap at an auction I believed him so i gave him a 5000 money order and �he said he gave it to the dealer to try to get me a truck. It fell through and said he's just going to leave the money with the dealer so the next truck or car that comes in that I like he can bid on it and if won pay for it right then. This went on for a year. He is an auto reposer so every time he repo'd a car I liked he would supposably give the dealer the vin number to follow and when it came up for auction then he would go in and bid on it. From the time he gave the dealer the vin number to the time the car would go up for auction was 3 to 5 weeks and this went on for a year and every time a car went to auction it fell through. I finally said forget it I will get my own car and asked for my money back he said it was in a joint account with his sister and she had to be there to get it out and kept putting it off because she lived 3 hours away and to Get there after work before the bank closed was hard. He and I were best friends for a year with No interest at all in a relationship and then all the sudden he said he wanted to be with me romantically and if I didn't agree then he would move away and me and my kids would never see him again. My 2 boys loved him and it would hurt them if he left and he new that was the only thing stopping me from telling him to hit the road so he used that against me saying things like if I don't commit to him my 1 year old will have no father figure and he will suffer if he leaves and nobody will love a mom with 2 kids and a bunch of other brainwashing crap everyday for 8 months straight. I finally had enough and believed all the things he pumped in my brain and agreed to be with him but I did not want to be intiment. I had a very traumatic experience happen in the past and it has made me fear being intiment. He was fully aware of what had happen yet that didn't stop him from telling me I don't have to be in a relationship with him and things will go back to the way they use to be and he won't move away if I am �with him one time. All I wanted was to go back to being best friends so I said ok. That night I asked him please don't make me do this and if I don't will he really move he said yes so I tried to go through with it. I put my hands on my face and cried saying no no I don't �want to do this. The moment he got close to me I pushed him off and broke down he got up and went in the other room then said it's ok I won't move we can try it again later. A week or so later it happen again and again. At this point I had so much hate for him and I new he was not right in his head so I did some research and called the mutual acquaintance whom he gave my money to to bid on a car and asked if he ever gave him 5000 to get me a car, he laughed and said no it never happen and he never heard anything about it. I called his sister and asked if they had a joint account she said hell no and that she would never put her name on anything with him. I questioned him and he said there are emails proving he gave the dealer the money and he got it back from him etc. So I told him to sign in to his email and show me. He logged on and I saw a message with the subject field highlighted letters saying hi wife. I clicked on it and that's when I found out he was married to a woman in Arizona that just got out of prison. I questioned him about it and he said he married her so she can move to California and she was going to pay him 10000. I called her and asked her and she had no knowledge of 10000 and that they have Been marked for 2 years. It's been 8 months and he won't give me my money back! He said he is going to charge me for every gift he bought my kids and he is playing endless mean games holding my money for ransom. This man is a liar and a con artist. �I am a single mom and can't afford to loose this money please help . What can I do legally to get my money back from him. Please and please don't criticize my question and point out all the neieve mistakes I made. Brainwashing is powerful and he used the two most important people in my life as leverage knowing I would do anything for my children.�

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