[Halon]

Honestly at this point, I think you are going to be the one losing out unfortunately. There's obviously someone at fault here, and the person at fault is the only one that 100% knows who is responsible. And at this point it sounds like that person is not going to step up and take responsibility for it.

But I think what you do leave with is a learning experience. Sucks I know man, but it is what it is at this point I think. It's unfortunate that someone local would do this to another local, sorry you're stuck in such a crap situation. If I was in your shoes, at this point I'd be cutting my losses, take this all as a expensive lessons learned, and look at how to move forward from here.