Mark Green’s lawyer has sent in a letter to the editor, which we carry on the page opposite. The lawyer, Richard Emery, says he is concerned that our editorial on Fran Miller and several of our previous articles related to the probe into political corruption in Brooklyn “gets nearly every key fact wrong.” We’re happy to give Mr. Emery a chance to state his concerns. We’d like our readers to know that our policy is to correct errors in our stories. But with respect to the dispatches from our Jack Newfield and Colin Miner and our editorials, we have looked into complaints received from Mr. Green and we do not believe anything printed warrants a correction.

There is no effort — “strained,” as Mr. Emery asserts, or otherwise — to “criminalize a political dispute,” as Mr. Emery puts it. Messrs. Newfield and Miner have been covering an investigation that has been opened by the district attorney of Kings County. Mr. Emery seems to be under the impression that for a newspaper to report what a prosecution is being told is the same as the newspaper accusing someone of a crime. Neither the district attorney nor the Sun, in fact, has accused Mr. Green or his associates of a crime.

Mr. Emery seems to be suggesting that the Sun failed to report that the Green campaign itself disclosed that it has paid $245,000 to Clarence Norman’s political club in Brooklyn for field operations. Such a suggestion is wrong. The Sun reported that the payment was disclosed by the Green campaign, and we reported the denials by Mr. Green’s camp that the payment was made in exchange for an endorsement. The payment itself is not the issue the DA is looking into, however. It’s the accounting for how the $245,000 was spent that is the issue. Mr. Green and Richard Schrader, his campaign manager, repeatedly have spurned requests for comment by Messrs. Newfield and Miner.

The main point that needs to be made is that this is not about Mark Green or his reputation. This is about an effort to clean up politics in Brooklyn, which is, after all, the fourth-biggest city in the country and yet has a political culture that, as our columnist Errol Louis wrote the other day, smacks of a parish in Louisiana. This is a tragedy for New York, and Mr. Hynes’ investigation is important. We would have thought it is an investigation in which Mr. Green, who once was thought of as a reform politician in the city, would be striving to help the newspapers, not to mention the prosecutors. It’s not about him. It’s about how to make things better for the people and businesses that live and operate in Brooklyn and have to lay their disputes before the judiciary in Kings County.