If you have to go to court, you probably lost. This is America. Wins go to the deepest pockets, not who is correct. Anyway, I have been faced with such "forks in the road". You have a talk with founders. If you cannot get satisfaction, then there is thing called the Internet. Get on social media,.like perhaps Glassdoor,and tell your story. You will not be the first person "paid" to take the truth down from social media.