
HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire attorney general's office says it has recovered more than $400,000 from a nonprofit that misappropriated funds meant to help military veterans.
Danielle Goodwin, co-founder and former director of Project VetCare, pleaded guilty in 2018 to diverting money from the Hanover charity for her personal use. She was sentenced to 3½ to seven years in state prison and required to pay back nearly $100,000. She was released from prison last month.
The Valley News reports the Charitable Trust Division of the attorney general's office said in a report Tuesday that funds recovered from Project VetCare included $20,000 for a van for the Disabled American Veterans, and $196,000 to the Veterans County program of the Easter Seals of New Hampshire and Vermont.
Goodwin was to pay $90,000 when she sold her home, but when it was put on the market, the Charitable Trusts Unit reopened the agreement. The home sold in September for nearly $600,000, and the Easter Seals Veterans Count program will get another $200,000. The trusts unit also will get a $10,000 civil penalty payment.
The report concludes that Project VetCare's board had no knowledge of Goodwin’s actions until early 2016, and that Project VetCare lacked proper internal financial controls.