Santo Domingo’s District Attorney (Fiscal) Jose Manuel Hernandez told reporters he would investigate several ministries regarding the handling of RD$2 billion to determine where this money was spent. The prosecutor reminded the reporters that the Controller’s Office had published information about the handling of funds by officials of the former administration. In a rather startling comment, Hernandez said that “colonels and their mistresses” were enjoying the use of seized properties or evidence in pending judicial cases. He reported that a former assistant district attorney, Felipe Herrera, had returned four motorcycles that had been seized and resurfaced in his possession. Another case to be investigated is that of the shipment of shoes that was appropriated from a well-known store on Duarte Avenue and later sold by an assistant DA. Former District Attorney Maximo Aristy Caraballo ultimately had to pay for the shoes from funds from the DA’s office budget.