I’m afraid small potatoes aren’t going to be paid much attention, even by conservative state attorneys. Even our local police department and district attorney are slackers.
Unless you make a LOT of noise and get a news special interest story going, your case is going to be filed in the “unsolvable” pile.
That may be true. Another approach that has worked for me is to send a certified letter to the offender with a bond, all caps “CC: attorney general fraud division.