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Wild Corgi owner asks court to shut down the Cap Hill pub after breakup.A breakup could mean the end of a neighborhood pub in Cap Hill.Sean Maas and Dusty Jones opened Wild Corgi Pub at 1223 E.13th Ave.Now, Maas wants a judge to appoint a receiver to shut down and dissolve the business.“Jones is acting in a manner that is illegal, oppressive, and fraudulent,” Maas wrote in a lawsuit filed at the end of May.Maas said things went downhill after the two men’s decade-plus romantic relationship started to deteriorate in 2022.He and Jones, who are 50/50 owners, called things off in August of that year but decided to remain in business together at Wild Corgi.But Maas alleges that Jones subsequently oversaw shady accounting practices, intentionally locked Maas out of the business’s various accounts and overpaid himself.An early 2023 kitchen fire began to reveal the extent of Jones’ transgressions, Maas said in the lawsuit.After the incident caused Wild Corgi to temporarily close, the pair submitted an insurance claim.Maas said, they had to show the insurance firm Wild Corgi’s books and records.Maas alleges that the information was years behind and blames Jones and Shawn Skeldum, a “close personal friend” of Jones’ who was also Wild Corgi’s accountant.Maas said Skeldum subsequently removed Maas’ ability to view pay stubs on Wild Corgi’s accounting software.Later, in a September 2023 payroll meeting with Skeldum, Maas said he noticed more “accounting irregularities,” including duplicate payroll entries for Jones.After that, according to the lawsuit, Maas hired forensic accountants to dig into Wild Corgi’s books.Jones was paying himself bartender pay along with manager’s pay, which Maas was not doing, the lawsuit says.Jones also regularly got tips and began to pay himself more without Maas’ agreement, according to Maas.The lawsuit says the pair agreed to be paid the same amount and split any profits evenly.But Maas told the court that Jones was overpaid by $70,000 and also wrongly collected at least $70,000 from Wild Corgi’s liability/expense account.Maas also alleges that he is owed $42,000 in unshared loan repayment funds.He and Jones each put in $75,000 to start Wild Corgi and agreed to be paid back from the restaurant’s potential profits at a clip of $2,500 a month, he said.In the lawsuit, Maas alleges that Jones refuses to communicate and meet with him and has removed him from Wild Corgi’s payroll.Maas says he is also not able to access any of Wild Corgi’s business-related accounts despite having the password.He claims Jones won’t give him security codes associated with two-factor authentication for the accounts.The former couple’s personal property is also at play.The two co-own a house on the western side of Denver, where Maas still lives after Jones moved out in 2023.The two also have a 2023 GMC Sierra and a 2018 Winnebago Sunstar together that they each own 50/50.Maas is seeking a court-ordered sale of those and for the money to be divided between him and Jones.Neither Jones nor Maas responded to a request for comment from BusinessDen.Maas’ attorneys, Andrew Peterson and Jacob Scobee of Jachimiak Peterson Kummer, also did not respond to requests for comment.A breakup could mean the end of a neighborhood pub in Cap Hill.Sean Maas and Dusty Jones opened Wild Corgi Pub at 1223 E.13th Ave.Now, Maas wants a judge to appoint a receiver to shut down and dissolve the business.“Jones is acting in a manner that is illegal, oppressive, and fraudulent,” Maas wrote in a lawsuit filed at the end of May.Maas said things went downhill after the two men’s decade-plus romantic relationship started to deteriorate in 2022.He and Jones, who are 50/50 owners, called things off in August of that year but decided to remain in business together at Wild Corgi.But Maas alleges that Jones subsequently oversaw shady accounting practices, intentionally locked Maas out of the business’s various accounts and overpaid himself.An early 2023 kitchen fire began to reveal the extent of Jones’ transgressions, Maas said in the lawsuit.After the incident caused Wild Corgi to temporarily close, the pair submitted an insurance claim.Maas said, they had to show the insurance firm Wild Corgi’s books and records.Maas alleges that the information was years behind and blames Jones and Shawn Skeldum, a “close personal friend” of Jones’ who was also Wild Corgi’s accountant.Maas said Skeldum subsequently removed Maas’ ability to view pay stubs on Wild Corgi’s accounting software.Later, in a September 2023 payroll meeting with Skeldum, Maas said he noticed more “accounting irregularities,” including duplicate payroll entries for Jones.After that, according to the lawsuit, Maas hired forensic accountants to dig into Wild Corgi’s books.Jones was paying himself bartender pay along with manager’s pay, which Maas was not doing, the lawsuit says.Jones also regularly got tips and began to pay himself more without Maas’ agreement, according to Maas.The lawsuit says the pair agreed to be paid the same amount and split any profits evenly.But Maas told the court that Jones was overpaid by $70,000 and also wrongly collected at least $70,000 from Wild Corgi’s liability/expense account.Maas also alleges that he is owed $42,000 in unshared loan repayment funds.He and Jones each put in $75,000 to start Wild Corgi and agreed to be paid back from the restaurant’s potential profits at a clip of $2,500 a month, he said.In the lawsuit, Maas alleges that Jones refuses to communicate and meet with him and has removed him from Wild Corgi’s payroll.Maas says he is also not able to access any of Wild Corgi’s business-related accounts despite having the password.He claims Jones won’t give him security codes associated with two-factor authentication for the accounts.The former couple’s personal property is also at play.The two co-own a house on the western side of Denver, where Maas still lives after Jones moved out in 2023.The two also have a 2023 GMC Sierra and a 2018 Winnebago Sunstar together that they each own 50/50.Maas is seeking a court-ordered sale of those and for the money to be divided between him and Jones.Neither Jones nor Maas responded to a request for comment from BusinessDen.Maas’ attorneys, Andrew Peterson and Jacob Scobee of Jachimiak Peterson Kummer, also did not respond to requests for comment.