Tiffany Knupp, the founder of a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising charitable funds in her son’s name, will be placed on probation after entering an Alford plea this week to one of nine charges filed against her in an embezzlement case.
In Worcester County District Court Tuesday, Knupp, 43, entered an Alford plea to theft $1,000 to under $25,000, one of nine charges filed against her following an embezzlement investigation involving the Gavin Knupp Foundation, a nonprofit she helped start following her son’s death. As a condition of her year-long probation, Knupp will pay $6,500 in restitution and will separate herself from the nonprofit, which will be dissolved.
“The foundation has done tremendous work. It helped a lot of people,” Knupp’s attorney, Thomas Maronick Jr., said following Tuesday’s court proceeding. “And if there’s some good that’s a part of this, everything that the foundation has done to help people, those funds will be donated to other charities of the board’s choosing. So this is a situation where good will continue to be done.”
In an Alford plea, the defendant maintains their innocence but acknowledges that the prosecution has enough evidence to convict them should their case proceed to trial. In court this week, Maronick said his client had made a mistake and was willing to enter an Alford plea to theft, with the remaining charges to be indefinitely postponed.
“The reason she is here today is she wasn’t diligent enough in writing checks out,” he told the judge.
“…the case against Mailloux continues to move forward in Worcester County Circuit Court. A motions hearing is set for Nov. 21, and a 13-day trial has been scheduled for next March.”
I wonder if this family will ever have closure. So much pain and sadness.
She’s a crooked thug. I lost a child too but I didn’t go steal money because of it.