thank you that is what i was hoping you would say the company trusted him to do the rite thing but he failed any advice on going forward with thismy initial advice was given based on my belief that you had contracted to worth with the guy in his capacity as an employee of the company. Your subsequent clarification makes it obvious that this was not the case. This was a "side job" for the guy and you knew it at the time. Because of this, it seems that the only person who you can recover from is the guy.