RALEIGH, - Share Our Shoes is being threatened with closure by the Secretary of State's Office unless the Raleigh charity accounts for tens of thousands of datens ollars spent on expenses, including $99 for teeth whitening, $30 for a martial arts school and $17.23 at a Nash County ABC store. Also the charity's board members, staff and related businesses received about $47,000.

The notice was dated Feb. 9, but it's unclear when the charity received it. Failure to respond to the notice constitutes grounds for the state to pull the charity's license.

In November a North Raleigh church learned that the shoes it had collected and the $5,000 in cash it had raised had not yet gone to Haiti. The Secretary of State's Charitable Solicitation Licensing section said it had received two complaints in September and October of last year alleging that Pierce was selling donated shoes and keeping the proceeds for personal use.

The News and Observer reports that Pierce, 33, is a convicted felon and recovering drug addict who said starting the charity helped keep her straight. The state in November requested numerous records to track the charity's finances and operation, and its notice said the charity provided an "incomplete" response.