Boonville woman given 30 days in jail in nonprofit embezzling case

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A Boonville woman who pleaded guilty last month to embezzling from a Cooper County nonprofit was sentenced to serve 120 days in jail.

Judge Jeff Mittelhauser sentenced Jennifer Waibel last week to 30 days in jail and five years of probation after she pleaded guilty to a single count of felony theft. Waibel has a case still pending in Boone County, with a June 1 hearing scheduled. She is charged with three felonies in the Boone County case.

Waibel was accused in Cooper County of stealing $49,661.36 from Unlimited Opportunities by spending the money in several transactions from June 16 to Aug. 31, 2023, which included several multi-thousand-dollar purchases at Walmart locations in Boonville, Columbia and Madison, Georgia.

In the Boone County case, she’s accused of spending $13,650 on gift cards while using 10 company credit cards from Impact Support Services, located on Chapel Hill Road in Columbia.