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The North Carolina attorney general filed a motion to dismiss a bankruptcy filing by the owner of Apex nonprofit Ry-Con Service Dogs, court documents show, CBS17.com reported. On March 15, Attorney General Josh Stein moved to dismiss Mark Mathis' chapter 13 case, which was filed on Nov. 14, 2018. The motion states Mathis took payments for service dogs when he knew the dogs were not properly trained. "Many of the dogs these consumers received were not house-broke and had not received even the most basic of training, let alone training as a service dog," the motion states. Mathis used Ry-Con's operating account for personal expenses, the court filing says. Mathis spent more than $25,000 at Amazon, $5,000 at Walmart and more than $9,000 to multiple credit card companies, the filing says. He also spent more than $12,000 at grocery stores, $9,000 at restaurants and $6,000 in clothing purchases. The filing also says Mathis moved more than $70,000 worth of PayPal payments meant for Ry-Con into his personal account. The attorney general says his office has received at least 52 complaints against Ry-Con with 44 of those offering proof behind the complaint. 

A U.S. bankruptcy judge in Pittsburgh has denied a motion by retired H.J. Heinz chairman and CEO Sir Anthony O’Reilly to have his bankruptcy case in the Bahamas recognized in U.S. courts, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. The ruling is a blow to the former billionaire’s efforts to block his former personal nurse, Sabina Vidunas, from restarting her civil case that alleges he reneged on a promise to give her tens of millions of dollars worth of stock as compensation after he hired her in 1995. Her lawsuit, filed in federal court in Pittsburgh in 2013, has been on hold pending developments in the bankruptcy case. Vidunas filed a motion in October seeking to reopen her case. Bankruptcy Judge Jeffery A. Deller left open the door for O’Reilly’s attorneys to refile their motion to have his bankruptcy case recognized, but on less favorable grounds. Once Ireland’s richest businessman and America’s highest-paid CEO, O’Reilly filed for bankruptcy in 2015 after accumulating massive debts through failed investments in publishing and Ireland’s Waterford Wedgwood luxury goods group.