Ex-boyfriend Accusing Me Of Fraud

[unprepared]

CALIFORNIA

My ex-boyfriend, duing our relationship, borrowed nearly $3000 from me and promised, some in writing, to repay me. He wrote me two checks for $1000 each but post dated them a month apart. Based on his unemployment, I knew he could not cover these checks so I asked if I could use his account to make smaller payments on my credit cards. He agreed. I paid $400 on a Visa and $269.70 on a Chase credit card last month. He is now threatening to call the police and open fraud investigations on these two payments if I do not return the money. Can he do this?? I have multiple promisary notes from him saying that he will repay me, I have the two checks made out to me and signed by him for $1000, I have all the reciepts for things I have purchased on his behalf, and I have never been in any legal trouble before.

Is there any chance that charges will be pressed against me? I am not in a position to cover these costs right now and would have made smaller payments if he had not accepted this alternative method.

Please advise

[seniorjudge]

Originally Posted by unprepared

CALIFORNIA

My ex-boyfriend, duing our relationship, borrowed nearly $3000 from me and promised, some in writing, to repay me. He wrote me two checks for $1000 each but post dated them a month apart. Based on his unemployment, I knew he could not cover these checks so I asked if I could use his account to make smaller payments on my credit cards. He agreed. I paid $400 on a Visa and $269.70 on a Chase credit card last month. He is now threatening to call the police and open fraud investigations on these two payments if I do not return the money. Can he do this?? I have multiple promisary notes from him saying that he will repay me, I have the two checks made out to me and signed by him for $1000, I have all the reciepts for things I have purchased on his behalf, and I have never been in any legal trouble before.

Is there any chance that charges will be pressed against me? I am not in a position to cover these costs right now and would have made smaller payments if he had not accepted this alternative method.

Please advise

Cops hear this story every day; it is a civil matter, not a criminal matter.

Tell your friend to bite rocks.

[Ladynred]

The access to use his account to pay those bills is undocumented, so it's his word against yours that it was 'fraud'. He will not be able to prove deliberate fraud and the court isn't going to listen to the two of you bicker. YOU , on the other hand, have a least SOME written documentation of money he owes you and promised to pay. If YOU sued HIM, you would most likely win.

[unprepared]

This is a wonderful forum and I appreciate everyone's help. I feel a lot better now...thank you, again.

[Carrie&Brian]

It is against the law for him to write checks for funds that he knows will bounce.

If he gets in your face, tell him you will take him to small claims court over the part of the loan you have documented, and will report him for the bad checks as well.

Unless he has it documented in writing that the payments towards your cc's are payments on the loan, he can't "subtract" that from what he owes you.