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Vera Liddell allegedly stole $1.5M in chicken wings from Illinois schools
NY Post ^ | January 31, 2023 | By Ben Kesslen

Posted on 01/31/2023 11:45:45 AM PST by dennisw

his is not the way to get ready for the Super Bowl.

The food service director of an impoverished Illinois school district was charged with stealing $1.5 million of food — most of which was chicken wings.

Vera Liddell, 66, alleging began stealing from the Harvey School District during the heigh of COVID-19, local TV station WGN station reported.

The station reported that Liddell ordered more than 11,000 cases of chicken wings for the district with school funds, but took all the poultry for herself.

“The food was never brought to the school or provided to the students,” court records claimed.

Prosecutors alleged she started stealing while students were learning remotely but the district was still providing meals available for pickup.

It’s unclear what happened to the tens of thousands of pounds of chicken wings. Local news did not report the day of her arrest.

The alleged scheme was apparently uncovered when the district manager conducted a routine audit in January 2022 and founds food costs were $300,000 over budget just halfway through the school year, according to CBS News.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Food; Local News
KEYWORDS: chicago; chickenwings; cluckcluck; cookcounty; covid1984; crookcounty; democrats; foodservicedirector; gordonfoods; gordonfoodservice; harvey; illinois; liddell; mafia; schoollunches; theft; veraliddel; veraliddell
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To: dennisw

There’s just not any meat on those things so you need a whole LOT


41 posted on 01/31/2023 12:25:55 PM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: dennisw

42 posted on 01/31/2023 12:27:00 PM PST by Carpe Cerevisi
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To: RebelTXRose

I was recently quizzed on the blue cheese vs. ranch issue by one of my kids. I said that I am actually fine with either one. Evidently, this made me “crazy.” If I had to choose, probably 75% of the time I would choose blue cheese, but I really don’t care between the two.


43 posted on 01/31/2023 12:29:57 PM PST by cdcdawg (Hoes mad! LOL! )
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To: NWFree

Chicken ‘ca-ching’ wing$. Now they gotta follow her droppings to her buyers in on the heist$.


44 posted on 01/31/2023 12:30:27 PM PST by tflabo (Truth or tyranny )
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To: NWFree

“There’s just not any meat on those things so you need a whole LOT”

This is why the smart cook and Superbowl hostess will substitute drumsticks for wings, in their favorite wings recipes. Wings which cost at least 2.5 time more. Obviously lots more meat on the drums.


45 posted on 01/31/2023 12:42:02 PM PST by dennisw ("You don't have to like it. You just have to do it")
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To: z3n
Cue the Vangelis music

They shall mount up with wings like chickens--oh wait a minute...

46 posted on 01/31/2023 12:57:05 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: z3n
Yes, chajin made a reference to Eric Liddell, noting no relation to the subject of this article. He is the Scottish runner who won the 400m in Paris in 1924 after he wouldn’t run the 100m because it was being held on a Sunday, which conflicted with his beliefs.

The next year Liddell then went to China as a missionary in his father's footsteps, was captured by the Japanese, kept as a prisoner of war in despicable conditions, and died on Feb. 21, 1945, before he could be rescued. In effect he is the Presbyterian version of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, or vice versa.


47 posted on 01/31/2023 1:03:02 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: dennisw

Gee. She looks so sweet in her mugshot.


48 posted on 01/31/2023 1:14:12 PM PST by Afterguard
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To: dennisw

I coulda told her that her scheme wouldn`t fly


49 posted on 01/31/2023 1:37:38 PM PST by bunkerhill7 (nyc is not there. )
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To: dennisw

She’s being held on bond for stealing chicken wings, but the person who destroyed electric power stations in Washington State, causing 30,000 people to lose power, is out walking around, looking for an out in drug rehab, not to mention the multiple violent offenders Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg has released without bail. Hunter and the Biden crime family have committed treason, and stolen more than Vera ever did, and none of them will ever be held accountable for it.


50 posted on 01/31/2023 1:58:44 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: chajin

Thanks on Eric Lidell. And he was treated fairly with no sarcasm in the movie. I loved the “Chariots of Fire” movie when it first came out. For me, running at all distances is the ultimate sport. The ultimate physical test for men.

They don’t make movies like that anymore.


51 posted on 01/31/2023 2:10:47 PM PST by dennisw ("You don't have to like it. You just have to do it")
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To: NWFree
That's a giant amount of chicken
52 posted on 01/31/2023 2:17:16 PM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: RebelTXRose

Reaper hot sauce is the best.


53 posted on 01/31/2023 2:46:15 PM PST by oldasrocks (quew)
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To: dennisw

Stacy Abrams: Hold my beer.


54 posted on 01/31/2023 2:59:38 PM PST by advance_copy (Stand for life or nothing at all)
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To: EEGator

Chariots of fryer.

CC


55 posted on 01/31/2023 3:12:40 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: Celtic Conservative

👍🤣


56 posted on 01/31/2023 3:20:33 PM PST by EEGator
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To: z3n

You asked for it;

“Chariot’s Of Eggs”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSOrZhcnM6I&t=714s

Starring Hall and Oates


57 posted on 01/31/2023 3:31:48 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (I stayed drug - free going on 63 years for this?)
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To: dennisw

Wtf did she do with all those wings???


58 posted on 01/31/2023 7:28:59 PM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and don't wish to smile.)
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