I won't go into the details of it all, suffice to say that my "friend" who I trusted with my life, proposed to me to invest with him back in October, as he claimed to be an expert in Forex, and he fooled me because he worked in the only regulated and licensed brokerage in an overseas country.

We've been able to expose him, he is still in denial but his brokerage who fired him back in November is willing to support this as he hasn't traded a single dime (he wasn't even allowed to) at the firm, and abused the system to gain my trust.

We're giving him grace time to return what he has taken, but have my fingers to informing the police.

My question is would I be able to get any portion of this back as tax credit or some other relief program, once proven it was fraud? (IRS)