I found out about this on Thanksgiving day.
The story is that my wife and I are married since 2020. She’s due to give birth on Monday (scheduled induction). On thanksgiving day (~1 week ago) she told me that this happened. The total amount was about $550-$600k. She’s from China. She made three individual transfers to Hong Kong. Why? She said the FTC called her on the phone and said their partners in China caught her in a money laundering scheme. They told her to call a number and she did and… oldest trick in the book right? She said she suspected it was a scam but did it anyway. She went to the bank to sign paperwork. She said she lied to the bank to get the money to go through. At some point I was on an account at this bank with her. I trusted her so I wasn’t really keeping watch. This happened months ago. The most recent transfer was 2 weeks before thanksgiving. She’s made police reports, fbi reports, ftc reports. I have them. She’s going to start seeing a therapist. I just don’t know if I can get past this. I don’t know how to look at her. I run my own business. I’ve been working 7 days a week for three years to get it off the ground. My career makes much less money in major cities but hers makes more. Her argument for living here was that she was making and growing this nest egg. I feel like I’ve sacrificed everything and I’ve been stabbed in the back by the person I trusted the most.
I tried contacting a family law attorney but they were kind of cruel tbh. My world is upside down. Do I try to make it work?