A letter sent in November 2022 by Lehigh County District Attorney James Martin to Whitehall Township officials stated an allegation that the former treasurer failed to turn over records during a transitional period - from the former to the present - does not merit criminal charges.

The headline of a March 16 story covering the Whitehall Township Board of Commissioners’ March 13 meeting, during which Martin’s letter was read, stated that Martin declined to intervene in an investigation of missing funds in the township. In fact, the DA investigated those missing funds allegations and found, according to Martin, “there was no way to prove with certainty the amount of money that was unaccounted for and no way to prove whether the unaccounted for funds were the subject of a theft, or simply horrible record keeping.

“There were two distinct investigations concerning the Whitehall treasurer, only one of which concerned ‘missing funds,’” Martin said in seeking a correction by The Press.

The November 2022 letter from Martin was a response to the investigation about the turning over of records, not the missing money.

The Press regrets the error.