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A former Illinois public school food service director for an impoverished Chicago-area district has been sentenced to nine years in prison after stealing $1.5 million in chicken wings from the county.
>Vera Liddell, 66, worked for Harvey School District 152 for over a decade.
>“The massive fraud began at the height of COVID during a time when students were not allowed to be physically present in school,” reads a proffer at Liddell’s bond hearing, according to a report from local station WGN9. “Even though the children were learning remotely, the school district continued to provide meals for the students that their families could pick up.”
>The prosecution accused Lindell of ordering 11,000 cases of chicken wings with the district’s money and picking them up in a county van.
>“The food was never brought to the school or provided to the students,” the court document explained.
>The document did not explain what happened to the wings after Lindell took them.
>“The scheme was uncovered by the district’s business manager during a routine mid-year audit. The manager found the district was $300,000 over its annual food service budget despite only being halfway through the school year, according to prosecutors,” the local news report explains.
>“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,” prosecutors explained.
>Lindell pleaded guilty on August 9 and was handed a nine-year prison sentence.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/illinois-school-food-director-gets-nine-years-prison/