{"id":28201,"date":"2024-08-13T07:02:15","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T11:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=28201"},"modified":"2024-08-13T07:02:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T11:02:15","slug":"school-worker-jailed-for-stealing-chicken-wings-worth-1-5m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2024\/08\/13\/school-worker-jailed-for-stealing-chicken-wings-worth-1-5m\/","title":{"rendered":"School worker jailed for stealing chicken wings worth $1.5m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A school worker has been jailed for nine years after stealing $1.5m (\u00a31.18m) worth of chicken wings.<\/p>\n<p>Vera Liddell&#8217;s year-long heist of the flightless birds soared to 11,000 cases of the wings, which were meant for students during the height of the COVID pandemic, prosecutors say.<\/p>\n<p>The 68-year-old started the scheme in July 2020 and was not found out until a business manager at her school near\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/topic\/chicago-6065\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0found that food costs were $300,000 (\u00a3235,000) over budget during a routine audit, according to US media reports.<\/p>\n<p>Liddell bought up the huge amount of food and used a school cargo van to pick it up &#8211; students never saw a single wing.<\/p>\n<p>Schools were closed at the time because of the pandemic, but the district was still sending out meal kits to pupils who were learning remotely.<\/p>\n<p>Liddell, who was food service head for 10 years at the district, was originally charged with theft and operating a criminal enterprise.<\/p>\n<p>She was handed a nine-year jail sentence after pleading guilty.<\/p>\n<p>Source: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sky-news-logo-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sky-news-logo-1.png\" alt=\"Sky News\" width=\"100\" height=\"20\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/school-worker-jailed-for-stealing-chicken-wings-worth-1-5m-13195879\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news.sky.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">A school worker has been jailed for nine years after stealing $1.5m (\u00a31.18m) worth of chicken wings. Vera Liddell&#8217;s year-long heist of the flightless birds soared to 11,000 cases of the wings, which were meant <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2024\/08\/13\/school-worker-jailed-for-stealing-chicken-wings-worth-1-5m\/\" title=\"School worker jailed for stealing chicken wings worth $1.5m\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[2505,3248,8345,7083,10606,305],"class_list":{"0":"post-28201","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-usa","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-cook-county","11":"tag-cook-county-jail","12":"tag-covid-19","13":"tag-criminal-enterprise","14":"tag-fraud","15":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28203,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28201\/revisions\/28203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}