To be honest, the fked dev story is a bit suspicious.
On the one hand: Why did he return the coins instead of selling them on allcoin/cryptorush for 0.001 BTC ? Yes it is cheap, but he could surely earn 2-4 BTC (which is still good money) from it and dissappear.
On the other hand if this dev is a good "friend" of the goat-team, he could probably return money, just of ethical reasons.
He was someone that I thought I could trust. And over 6,000 coins were missing from the wallet so I'm pretty sure he did sell some mate. He wasn't someone that I knew in person but he did appear to be someone of trust. To be honest, I could honestly stop with GOATCoin all together. But I feel like we have the potential to be something and make an impact mate. But it would be no problem at all to contact both exchanges and have them remove GOATCoin. (That isn't what I want and hopefully not what others want).
Edit: He returned the money because I threatened to go after him and have him prosecuted. There might not be a defined law for this to be a crime but in my opinion it is a type of scam.