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B-177406 1 (1974-01-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaadqj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ra 9- 4 -K r% COMPTROLLXS CENIRAL OF THE UNTEo STATES WASHIHGTOE4. D.C. 20514 1-177406 JAN 2 i 1974 Hr. E, A, Shea, Director Retired ?ay Department Navy Finance Center New Federal Offs.ce Building Cleveland, Ohio 44199 Dear Hr. Shea: Further reference is mdL,..o your September 14, 1972 letter, file reference XOsIIP:mlj, with attachments, addressed to our Claims Division (now Transportation and Claims Division) in which you re- quest a decision as to thejdsposition of-tErecainer p.7/of a person receiving such pay sfice his transfer to the Flee eserve in 1962. The ducuments submitted with your letter indicate that the person was convicted of a felony, murder, by a court of the Common- wealth of Virginia and on Uovember 15, 1971, was sentenced to life imprisonment in the State Penitentiary, It alon appears that after the prison sentence, the attorney in the criminal matter was appointed counittee of the estate, both real and personal, in accordance with the laws uf the Comnonwealth of Virginia. Subsequently, the attorney wrote to your office requesting that the payments of retainer pay should be sent to him as comittee. Since receipt of your letter, this Office has received corre- spondence to the effect that proceedingu have been instituted to have the attorney removed as committee of the prisoner's estate. The fleet reservist has also requested that, if possible, his retainer payments should be sent to a trust account for his son in a Richmond, VJrginia bank or if that is not possible, the payments should be kept by the Government. This Oftice has been unable to obtain inforuation concerning the prisoner's allegation that legal proceedings have been initiated to remove the attorney as his committee. It has been the long-established policy of the Government not to account to strangers for its transactions. Section 203 of title 31, United States Code, prohibits the assignment of claims 3-r. Cza...........

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