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Fired Make-A-Wish Iowa CEO pleads guilty to theft

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June 2nd, 2021 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – The former C-E-O of Make-A-Wish Iowa has pleaded guilty to embezzling from the charity. Forty-year-old Jennifer Woodley was arrested in late January. The Associated Press reports Woodley has entered a written guilty plea to two counts of first-degree theft and one count of fraudulent practices. She’ll be sentenced in July and the A-P reports prosecutors will recommend probation rather than prison, plus require some sort of restitution.

Woodley was accused of giving herself a 10-thousand dollar bonus and of using the Make-A-Wish foundation’s credit cards to make thousands of dollars worth of personal purchases. Woodley is the mother of four children. Two daughters have undergone brain surgery. One of them received a trip through Make-A-Wish Iowa before Woodley became the group’s C-E-O.