Posted on 08/11/2024 5:39:49 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
HARVEY, Ill. (WLS) -- The former food service director for a south suburban school district pleaded guilty to stealing $1.5 million worth of chicken wings over a 19-month period, court records show.
Vera Liddell, 66, who worked for Harvey School District 152 for more than 10 years, has been sentenced to nine years in prison.
Liddell was responsible for placing orders with Gordon Food Services, a main supplier for the district, according to prosecutors. She placed orders for the chicken wings from July 2020 to February 2022, billing the district but keep the food, prosecutors said.
An audit last year discovered that the district's food service department had exceeded its annual budget by $300,000, with the school year only half over, prosecutors said. The business manager for the district uncovered the invoices for the chicken wings, according to court records.
That's an item that typically wouldn't be served to students because they contain bones, documents stated.
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I wonder who she was selling them to. She could sell them for half price and still make out like a bandit.
None of the articles ever said what she did with the chicken wings.
$78,950 or so dollars per month, or $138.00 per day! That is a serious chicken wing addiction!
Well yea. It was a messy corruption scheme. She got greedy and went way over budget. With the decline in a trust society, it would not be irrational to assume that anyone spending other people’s money is tempted to steal some of it.
Listen! Give her a break! She’s obviously a Socialist Democrat, so she was only doing it ‘for the children!’
*SMIRK*
What a stupid thing to go to prison for. The other inmates are gonna have some fun at her expense, I’ll bet. ‘Old Lady Chicken Wings!’ ‘Mrs. Sanders!’
Bet she gets assigned to the Prison Kitchen. ;)
Known to insiders as "Chicken" Liddell.
I doubt she’ll go to prison.
You win the internets today.
Yup...pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered.
:-)
(We need a chicken version of that.)
Known to insiders as "Chicken" Liddell.
Her sky dun felled.
“That’s an item that typically wouldn’t be served to students because they contain bones, documents stated.”
And she didn’t know that?
That’s clever.
LOL
...known for her “hot” wings
More info here. More than 11K cases of chicken wings were stolen. She drove a school district cargo van to the food distributor and signed for the food..
ReparaWings
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