Woman accused of embezzling from Columbia, Boonville nonprofits back in jail
Ryan Shiner
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
A woman who is accused of embezzling money from nonprofits in Boonville and Columbia is back in jail.
Jennifer Waibel, 52, of Boonville, is being held at the Cooper County Jail for a Boone County warrant, according to online jail records. She was booked into the jail at 1:48 p.m. Monday and is being held on a $30,000 bond.
She is charged in Cooper County with stealing more than $25,000 and has a preliminary hearing in that case scheduled for 1 p.m. Monday, Jan. 26. Waibel is charged in Boone County with stealing more than $750 and two counts of fraudulently using a credit card.
In the Cooper County case, 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.
The probable cause statement in that case also claimed that employees were threatened with retaliation if they spoke out about the situation.
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 that case say she spent that money from March 15-31. When Waibel was interviewed about the charges, the statement says she allegedly said “Can I just pay you back?”