An office assistant for an honor society at the University of Missouri-St. Louis stole more than $30,000 from the organization, authorities say.Amber Bauer, 39, of Florissant was working in the spring and fall of 2015 for a local chapter of Sigma Beta Delta when she began forging checks and raiding its accounts, according to the complaint filed by the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney.
The organization, a national honor society for students in business and management, first discovered something was wrong when the executive director discovered a pair of payments totaling $539.26 made toward Bauer's personal cell phone bill.
When she was confronted by her employer, Bauer told them she had done it by accident, authorities say. She was later fired and Sigma Beta Delta began a forensic audit of its books.…