Do I have a case of slander worth persueing?

[neydave]

I met my wife in Sept. 1999, and married her April 4th, 2003. She works for her mother, who owns a small chain of vitamin stores. The business is very successful. From when I met my wife, she had the habit of pinching a few dollars from the register. And I would always tell her not to I didn't like that it wasn't right. Needless to say she didn't listen. Her stepfather worked for the company also. One of his tasks was taking care of the money, pick-ups from each store, bank deposits, payroll, etc. He recently past away. His job duties were devided amongst several employees. This was very easy, because his job was not real. After his passing my wifes brother Frank was looking into; where he stood. In doing so, he supposedly found $18,000 missing from my wifes store in Las Vegas. Somehow they came to the conclusion that it was me. My mother in law and brother in join forces and decide they were going to have me arrested for this and tried everything they could, had the bank do a full investigation, also filed police reports with LVMP. Nothing came of this, there was no evidence at all. Also my mother in law tells anyone who will listen to her how I stoal money from her called me a thief and a dozen other things. It got so bad, people I once got along very well with, who respected me, now gave me dirty looks not speek to me at all. This was extremely hurtful, along with the humility I suffer . On top of all that she broke up she broke up my marriage. Telling my wife whatever she could think of to get her to leave me and go live with her, now that she was alone after the passing of her husband. She even went as far as telling my wife I took out an insurance policy on my wife, as if I was going to murder her. My wife knows me very well, and knows I wouldn't hurt a fly. For her to be afraid, God only knows what my mother in law said to her. I believe the reason she blamed me for taking money from her store was, it would be the only way she could get the money back, being the bank would pay it. That's assuming there is any money missing at all.

 

[mafioso]

You don't have a case based you what you posted………… She actually believes you stole her money and she has the right to that opinion. She does not seem to misleading people with false information deliberately ……………..So your case does not meet the standard.

 

[neydave]

Thanks for your reply,
She had the bank do a full investigation, which found me to have done nothing wrong. All transaction were done by her daughter, whose name is on the acct.
Also , she filed police reports, and aggresively followed up on them. They to found me to have done nothing wrong.
Now, her having knowledge of this, I would think, would make her comments and remarks about me to be deliberate.
She has caught numerous people stealing money from the company, amounts being 2 even 3 times the amount she acused me of, and did nothing. In fact, they still work for her. I believe this is her way of splitting up my wife and I.

neydave

 

[mafioso]

You might have a case........not very strong evidence........ But you should know such cases are very hard to prove if you don't have a whole lot of evidence. The evidence and things you must show are quite a lot. If you insist you could contact a local lawyer to review it for a free initial consultation. Unfortunately, some lawyers would accept just to make money out of you. So use good judgment when you meet them.