In the Dec. 9 article, “Bloomberg, Morgenthau Dispute Control of Settlement Dollars” the Law Journalreported “ the Queens District Attorney said all of its accounts are registered with the city.” That is not, however, what we told the Law Journal. What we said was that wehave no deferred prosecution funds. All of our accounts are in city-approved banks. We have accounts under the city’s tax ID number and, as has been the case for over 20 years, we have some accounts under our tax ID number. We are required to maintain our state and federal forfeiture funds in separate accounts. We comply fully with all of the reporting requirements for our state and federal forfeiture funds.
We were asked whether our accounts under the city’s tax ID number are registered with the city. They are. Lest there be any misunderstanding, however, our accounts under our federal tax ID number are not registered with the city nor do we believe that they must be.
The author is the Queens District Attorney’s Office director of communications.
