Former Warren County assessor Wendy Nordwald Kozma is expected to return to court next Monday, Feb. 9 at 10 a.m. on a contempt motion filed in her case Jan. 16.
The motion, filed by the Warren …
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Former Warren County assessor Wendy Nordwald Kozma is expected to return to court next Monday, Feb. 9 at 10 a.m. on a contempt motion filed in her case Jan. 16.
The motion, filed by the Warren County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, alleges that Kozma violated her Dec. 23, 2025 agreement with the state that allowed her to be released from custody.
The motion specifically asserts that Kozma failed to comply with the agreement by failing to pay any funds towards her restitution as of Jan. 16. It also asserts that she failed to transfer her Missouri County Employee’s Retirement Fund survivor benefit to the prosecutor’s office per her Dec. 23 agreement. It further asserts that she has failed to provide the prosecutor’s office with her log-in information for her CERF account as promised.
The motion says that on Jan. 16 Kozma emailed documentation to the prosecutor’s office that she could not reassign her death benefit as previously agreed.
The motion also notes that she mailed something to the prosecutor’s office on Jan. 2, but whatever she sent was never received.
Kozma originally entered an agreement on Dec. 23, 2025 and pursuant to that agreement was released from custody on Dec. 24. In the agreement Kozma agreed to provide $535.89 each month from her CERF pension. She also agreed to change the 10-year certified life policy to show the beneficiary to be the restitution department of the Warren County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. She further agreed to designate at least 15 percent of her disability pay each month to the prosecuting attorney’s office.
The agreement entered Dec. 23, resulted in a continuance of the hearing on the state’s previously filed motion to revoke Kozma’s probation.
Kozma, who now lives in Florida, was convicted of 15 counts of stealing in 2022 for embezzling over $250,000 from the Missouri State Assessors Association. She was sentenced to pay $213,000 in restitution and four months in prison in lieu of a 10-year prison sentence.
