I'm sorry that your past experiences have colored your perspective with the emotions of fear and hate (yer pissed at being ripped off). Donald is not gonna help ya to get yer stuff back. The following will help however to regain a sense of balance and a measure of forgiveness, for with forgiveness also comes an unburdening as we lose the baggage that is weighing us down and impeding our ability to drink fully from the cup of happiness.
Try this, don't just read about it, but do it for 8 weeks, it's a mental exercise that among other things builds out the parts of your brain that process emotion and control the perception of reality. Tons of science behind it, ya gotta do it, not read about it, happiness guaranteed and ya can smoke dope and do it too (cut back and don't practice while high).
A good place to start and lots of articles and free mindfulness courses and teaching podcasts a ton of resources this will keep you busy and steer you in the right direction, science based, buddhist roots.
University of Wisconsin
http://www.fammed.wisc.edu/mindfulness/research/
See this on the page for some podcasts
For a complete list of mindfulness audio and video files see our Mindfulness Digital Library