Zoe, I don't know how you were being paid. I have gotten help in the past by contacting the Labor Board. Also, even if someone files bankruptcy, you still may be able to collect something if you were an employee with money owed to you. These things can take forever. Lots of paper work. If you have a friend who is an attorney, he/she may be able to give you some legal advice about your rights.
Since I don't know the parties involved, I have no frame of reference as to who may be an asshole with a past of cheating people. Put on your helmet, and it all else fails, find the people and dump paint on their cars! Whoops! Did I say that????
