• The food service director of a struggling Illinois school district has been charged with stealing $1.5 million in food, the majority of which was chicken wings.
• “Vera Liddell ordered more than 11,000 cases of chicken wings for the district with school funds, but took all the poultry for herself,” according to WGN.
• The auditor “discovered individual invoices signed by Liddell for massive quantities of chicken wings, an item that was never served to students because they contain bones,” prosecutors said. The food service provider employees all knew Liddell by name “due to the massive amount of chicken wings she would purchase.” Liddell is currently being held in Cook County Jail on a $150,000 bond.

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