I was a millionaire, once. Brought a lot of fair-weather friends with it, including several con men. Took a lot of effort to extract from that situation, lost half a million doing so (long story, not sure I want to carve it into the blockchain's stone...). Didn't have a happy ending for the con man, either (not my doing, other than perhaps not fighting back enough and enabling him to go on and be more reckless in creating victims).
That story about your relative sucks though, I'm so sorry to hear. Your wording "a couple weeks away" is similar to what happened to me.
enough said you understand