Michael Vick has agreed to donate about $1 million for the care of the 54 pit bulls taken in custody from his dog fighting operation.

The court documents which were obtained by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution show that Billy Martin, one of the suspended Atlanta Falcons quarterback’s attorneys, said that his client will transfer $928,073 on Friday to an account controlled by Martin's Washington law firm. The sum will be set aside "to pay whatever restitution amount is ultimately ordered in this case," a court filing said.

The court papers of last week show that the government had asked U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson to issue a restraining order that would freeze the money to execute Vick's legal obligation to care for the pit bulls and find them shelters. The dogs were taken away from Vick’s Bad Newz Kennels property in Surry County.

Vick is facing up to five years in prison. He will be sentenced Dec. 10 on a federal dog fighting conspiracy conviction. He voluntarily began serving his prison term on Nov. 19 in Warsaw, Va.

Operation “Bad Newz Kennels”, as they called it, began in 2001 and vas mainly financed by Vick, who paid for the house, in Surry County, Virginia, where the dogs were kenneled and where several fights were set, the summary said.

The members of “Bad Newz Kennels”, including Vick, were disposing of the dogs that didn’t meet their expectations or lost the fights by drowning, electrocution and other similar means.