Vera Liddell allegedly stole $1.5M in chicken wings from Illinois schools

This isn’t the best way to prepare for the Tremendous Bowl.

The meals service director of an impoverished Illinois faculty district was charged with stealing $1.5 million of meals — most of which was rooster wings.

Vera Liddell, 66, alleging started stealing from the Harvey College District through the heigh of COVID-19, native TV station WGN station reported.

The station reported that Liddell ordered greater than 11,000 circumstances of rooster wings for the district with faculty funds, however took all of the poultry for herself.

“The meals was by no means delivered to the varsity or offered to the scholars,” courtroom information claimed.

Prosecutors alleged she began stealing whereas college students have been studying remotely however the district was nonetheless offering meals out there for pickup. 

It’s unclear what occurred to the tens of hundreds of kilos of rooster wings. Native information didn’t report the day of her arrest.

The alleged scheme was apparently uncovered when the district supervisor performed a routine audit in January 2022 and founds meals prices have been $300,000 over funds simply midway via the varsity 12 months, based on CBS Information.

The auditor “found particular person invoices signed by Liddell for enormous portions of rooster wings, an merchandise that was by no means served to college students as a result of they comprise bones,” prosecutors mentioned.

The meals service supplier workers all knew Liddell by title “because of the large quantity of rooster wings she would buy,” prosecutors mentioned, based on WGN.

Liddell is at present being held in Prepare dinner County Jail on a $150,000 bond.

The district informed CBS it couldn’t remark because of the ongoing investigation.