Alfred Dowe, whose questionable spending on meals and travel forced him from the Roanoke City Council last year, has run into more financial difficulties.

Dowe filed for personal bankruptcy this week.

In a petition filed Monday in bankruptcy court for the Western District of Virginia, Dowe listed his number of creditors at between one and 49. He estimated his assets at between $100,000 and $500,000, and put his liabilities in the same range.

A special prosecutor is considering whether to file criminal charges against Dowe, who resigned from the city council last February after it was disclosed that he had billed both the city and the state for some of the nearly $15,000 in travel expenses he ran up in 2007.