Family friend/neighbor pretended he had cancer for money, dealing with fallout?

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A friend of ours, who we've known for 25 years, and is now 43, told us a few months ago he had cancer, and asked us to fundraise on his behalf.

 

Me, my husband and 15-year-old daughter implicitly believed him, until we found a piece of evidence that didn't quite match up; the guy supposedly treating him whose name he kept mentioning was a doctor in Brisbane but we live in Cincinnati, and the doctor of that name does not exist in ANY hospital in Cincinnati.

 

There's been quite a lot of concern after my husband found a Twitter post by the guy which read:

 

Been pretending to have cancer 4money, brah. It's a good bit of fun, yaaaah.

I feel disgusted, angry and used, and even worse, have found out his wife was in on it, after a friend sent me a link to a hackerforum where she posted about how she'd done "Cancer Con" in some scammer/hacker forum.

 

His wife admitted it to me a few days later, told us they'd planned the scam together to get money to buy a house in West Virginia as a second home, aid she'd bought a Chrysler 300 and a Chevy Tahoe with some of the money raised, and a Taurus sedan for their daughter too, wth??

 

Me and my husband really trusted this guy and considered him a friend, he's even our daughter's godfather.

 

Now we're left wondering, what the hell, and can we ever trust him again?

 

I also found other damning evidence; an Instagram account with 10 bikini pictures (him modelling bikinis).

 

I need advice and really can't cope. How do we deal with fallout of this?