A Company Hired Me For A Week Knowing They Were Shutting Down, Can I Do Anything?

Location: Iowa, USA This is in the job field of logisitcs/trucking. I was a dispatcher

So at the start of December 2025 I was messaged by a friend to send her boss my resume. She knew I was looking for a new job and they needed another person on the team, so she gave him direct referral. Awesome, cool, go through the entire employment process, background check, all steps taken to be hired so im 100% legally hired and have left my old job to start here January 2026.

I had my new job for 1 week when they suddenly shut down operations and let us all go. I was paid for 1 week of work, sent my email that I was let go, and am now unemployed after leaving a good paying job I had for 3 years because they directly asked me to come work for them.

I was recently sent an article that showed the owner of the company knew the place was being shut down before he approved me to be hired. And the company is small enough he had to approve my position to be opened and me hired. The bank warned him to start slowing operations because they were shutting him down.

He didnt just do this to me though. My week there we spent a lot of time onboarding drivers. From what I recall we had 3-5 truck drivers being added to our fleet, and were actively being sent more to add to our lists to call. We were booking entire trailers, scheduling the weeks routes, full operations no indication that anything was happening even though he was being warned to stop.

Is there anything I can do against the owner or company? I doubt it but figure it wont hurt to ask

Sorry for any typos or if its jumbled, its late, im not wearing my glasses, and am on mobile