Woman pleads guilty to embezzling money from Cooper County nonprofit, Boone County case has hearing next month

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A woman accused of embezzling money from nonprofits in Boonville and Columbia has pleaded guilty in one of her cases.

Jennifer Waibel pleaded guilty on Monday in Cooper County to stealing more than $25,000. She will be sentenced at 1:30 p.m. Friday, May 22.

She is still charged in Boone County with stealing more than $750 and two counts of fraudulently using a credit card. A hearing in that case is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Monday, May 4.

Court documents in previous reporting for the Cooper County case say she is accused of stealing $49,661.36 from Unlimited Opportunities by spending the money in several transactions from June 16-Aug. 31, 2023, which included several multi-thousand-dollar purchases at Walmart locations in Boonville, Columbia and in 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, court documents in previous reporting say.