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Almost certainly not. The vendor would have to prove that you intended not to pay him when you entered into the contract, something that's going to be very hard to prove unless you said or did something at the time that indicated you never planned to pay up. It's not a crime to not pay your bills, even if the reason for the problem is just lousy financial choices. Since you are still in bankruptcy proceedings the vendor's efforts to collect violate the automatic stay that is imposed when you file the bankruptcy petition. you may wish to let him know you'll pursue sanctions for the violation if he doesn't knock it off. Once the debt is discharged, attempts to collect the debt will violate the discharge order, for which he can also be sanctioned. Basically, he can't do anything more to collect, no matter how mad he is about not getting paid. Nothing prevents you from paying him after the bankruptcy is over when you have the cash, and it might be worth considering paying him to repair the damage to your business reputation, but that's for you to decide once the bankruptcy is over.

The thing is they are saying I’m commuting fraud because after I received a couple payments from the client, I told them I hadn’t received those payments to buy myself time to get the money together so I could pay them back. At one point I even admitted to them that the money was spent and I was making efforts to get the money back to pay them. They are saying that the client gave proof to them stating I was paid so by me using that excuse to buy time was to “fraud them”.

Obviously they know I was given payments from the client, but all my excuses I used we’re to buy time so I could get money together. Eventually I realized I wasn’t keeping up with my debts and my spending habits weren’t helping, so I went bankrupt. I just don’t know what to do, and I’m freaked out at the thought of being jailed for something that was never my true intention