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Cook County woman charged with stealing $1.5M in chicken wings from school district [Chicago area]
Fox32Chicago ^ | 1/31/2023 | Staff

Posted on 02/24/2023 5:19:16 PM PST by simpson96

CHICAGO - Bond was set at $150,000 Thursday for a Dolton woman accused of stealing over $1.5 million of food - primarily chicken wings - while working as a consultant for a school district in south suburban Cook County, according to court documents.(snip)

Between July 2020 and February 2022, prosecutors said Liddell placed hundreds of unauthorized orders for food items, including 11,000 cases of chicken wings, through the school district's main supplier, Gordon Food Service. The orders were placed separately from the district's legitimate orders, prosecutors said.

"The massive fraud began at the height of COVID during a time when students were not allowed to be physically present in school. Even though the children were learning remotely, the school district continued to provide meals for the students that their families could pick up," the proffer said.

Believing the orders were genuine, Gordon Food Service billed Harvey School District 152, which then paid for the food items, according to court records. Lidell would then allegedly use one of the school district's cargo vans to pick up and transport the stolen food.

"The food was never brought to the school or provided to the students," the proffer said.

A routine mid-year audit conducted by the district's business manager in January 2022 showed the food service department had exceeded its annual budget by over $300,000 despite only being halfway through the school year, prosecutors said. Prosecutors said Lidell was the only person responsible for placing food orders on behalf of the district.

"Upon closer review, she discovered individual invoices signed by Liddell for massive quantities of chicken wings, an item that was never served to students because they contain bones," the proffer said.

(Excerpt) Read more at fox32chicago.com ...


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1 posted on 02/24/2023 5:19:16 PM PST by simpson96
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To: simpson96

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISBJyhughBo


2 posted on 02/24/2023 5:22:18 PM PST by 1FreeAmerican
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She has an enormous freezer.


3 posted on 02/24/2023 5:27:43 PM PST by jimfree (My 20 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than Joe Biden.)
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To: simpson96

That might actually be enough wings to get us through the regular season, even if the kids were home! It would take a lot of ranch and beer.


4 posted on 02/24/2023 5:27:46 PM PST by cdcdawg (Hoes mad! LOL! )
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To: simpson96

“Lori Flightloot”?


5 posted on 02/24/2023 5:28:13 PM PST by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: simpson96

WTF? Running her own Hooters? That’s a shed-load of wings!


6 posted on 02/24/2023 5:29:46 PM PST by bigbob
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To: simpson96

“Lord have mercy on my soul
How many chickens have I stole
One last night and the night before
I’m going back and tryin’ to get 10 or 11 more...


7 posted on 02/24/2023 5:34:54 PM PST by proxy_user
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To: simpson96

And now, Illinois woman steps up to battle Florida woman and Georgia woman...


8 posted on 02/24/2023 5:39:46 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: simpson96

A couple cases of neck bones backordered.


9 posted on 02/24/2023 5:44:58 PM PST by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t count)
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It would be a gold mine with the price of wings now. Just think about how many bars/ food dives would buy cheap wing cases from the back of a van. Unlimited free wing source would be $$$$.

I recall in the early 80s my grandmother making fun of us for buying wings from a local bar. “Wings?! The butcher gave them away for cat food.”

Freegards


10 posted on 02/24/2023 5:46:40 PM PST by Ransomed
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To: simpson96

A couple cases of neck bones backordered.


11 posted on 02/24/2023 5:46:52 PM PST by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t count)
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To: simpson96

“Even though the children were learning remotely, the school district continued to provide meals for the students that their families could pick up...”

Does anyone else see the problem?


12 posted on 02/24/2023 5:48:12 PM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: simpson96

What’d she do with them?


13 posted on 02/24/2023 5:56:29 PM PST by bgill
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To: simpson96
Baby got wings.

14 posted on 02/24/2023 6:03:13 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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“Even though the children were learning remotely, the school district continued to provide meals for the students that their families could pick up...”

Does anyone else see the problem?

Yes that struck me too.

15 posted on 02/24/2023 6:07:57 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man.)
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To: simpson96
Used to be that chicken wings were thrown away as waste product of a chicken, like the neck and gizzards.

However, in 1964 at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York, this restaurant decided to cook them up and serve them as an appetizer.

The rest is culinary history.

16 posted on 02/24/2023 6:08:17 PM PST by SamAdams76 (4,895,899 Truth | 87,656,930 Twitter)
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To: proxy_user

Anyone else wonders, this is from Shout Bamalama
by Otis Redding.

Good time to reference this, all that chicken crime goin’ on.🐓👮👮‍♀️🕵️


17 posted on 02/24/2023 6:10:00 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: simpson96

This lady has rented a walk-in freezer. She goes door to door down her block selling them at a discount in da ‘hood.


18 posted on 02/24/2023 6:12:57 PM PST by Combat_Liberalism
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To: simpson96

She’s got one wicked entrepreneurial spirit!


19 posted on 02/24/2023 6:16:35 PM PST by Combat_Liberalism
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To: simpson96

She’s got one wicked entrepreneurial spirit!


20 posted on 02/24/2023 6:16:35 PM PST by Combat_Liberalism
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