There was some chances of recovering the money earlier...but I guess that window of opportunity is no longer there. I used that trick few years earlier in Chicago..and it worked wonderfully. "Cheaters should be cheated in even more shrewd way" was the theme of my game.. I was in similar situation at that time...I had quit the work but I still had yet to recover the money.I just told the Indian guy there that I'll be returning to work in 4 week for sure because I had to do some paperwork (the crook Indian believed it) and told him that I needed money for the paperwork. He agreed to give me the money based on the condition that I'll return to work for sure in 4 weeks. He game the money and I never showed up there ever again....