HARVEY, Ill. — The food service director for an impoverished south suburban school district is accused of stealing $1.5M worth of food – mainly chicken wings – according to court documents reviewed by WGN Investigates.

Vera Liddell, 66, worked for Harvey School District 152 for more than a decade, according to a LinkedIn account a*sociated with her name.



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 presented at Liddell’s bond hearing. “Even though the children were learning remotely, the school district continued to provide meals for the students that their families could pick up.”

Court records accuse Liddell of ordering more than 11,000 cases of chicken wings from the school district’s food provider and then picking-up the order in a district cargo van.

“The food was never brought to the school or provided to the students,” reads the proffer.

District funds were used to pay for the food, according to prosecutors, who did not reveal what became of the chicken wings.

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.

“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 said.

Court records say employees of the district’s food provider, Gordon Food Service, were all familiar with the defendant “due to the massive amount of chicken wings she would purchase.”

The case was investigated by the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office and Liddell was charged with theft. She’s in custody at the Cook County Jail with a $150,000 bond.

Harvey School District 152’s interim superintendent Lela Bridges said she has only been on the job since last week. She told WGN she was aware of the charges but had no comment due to the ongoing investigation.

The district consists of five schools. Records indicate the district’s total enrollment is 1,600 children with more than 80% of students qualifying as “low income.”

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This that chicken wing shortage Katt Williams was talkin about

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We used to steal fry bags from McDonalds n bring em home.. but damn.. she had a whole operation.

She must been bringin em back .. makin plates n sellin em in the hood.. or was the plug for whoever was selling wing plates.

This sh*t could be a funny a*s movie fr

Unfortunate she thought cutting corners was the right thing to do at the age of 66.

which one of yall BX heads got they granny hustling dem wings

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Saw it before…they sag shawty out here got over a mil.

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Do we need gps trackers on the district vehicles ?
Who did she resell the wings to ?

Harvey still wild as hell I see

mfs will finesse anything

zone3cp said Saw it before…they sag shawty out here got over a mil. view image view image

The main reason I made this thread was because I was wondering how the hell they got over a million dollars in wings.

These videos you posted pretty much broke it down to how they got that number, even though it's a whole different case altogether.

It's wild how people hustling from stolen work items, especially when it's something like chicken wings.

Brenda Watts smart & clever...taking from corporate for 15+ yrs & living good. It took some dry hating jealous meth head cream junkie to out her

Lil dopefiend bi*ch had no problem losing her job in order to hate...hell the bi*ch ain't had a job in yrs & ain't wanna work no way

Harold's chicken plug

Jesus christ I was praying they weren't going to be black..... but I knew better

With the price of wings that's prob like 100 wings stolen

11k cases of chicken wings, with bones, knowing the kids couldn't have bone in food, and it took an audit to discover that sh*t? The school food provider didn't flag that sh*t? It's supposed to be checks and balances along the process. Someone got lazy on their job.

Someone was eating good.

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DaQCKing said 11k cases of chicken wings, with bones, knowing the kids couldn't have bone in food, and it took an audit to discover that sh*t? The school food provider didn't flag that sh*t? It's supposed to be checks and balances along the process. Someone got lazy on their job.

Congress work less than half of 365

Minimum wage wings goin have bones in em

Wow

Lebrown james said which one of yall BX heads got they granny hustling dem wings view image

Yo...why the homie fine sooo fu*king long! Lmfao

DaQCKing said 11k cases of chicken wings, with bones, knowing the kids couldn't have bone in food, and it took an audit to discover that sh*t? The school food provider didn't flag that sh*t? It's supposed to be checks and balances along the process. Someone got lazy on their job.

Its definitely not the food providers job to police what schools order.

Get a job. Holla at Perdue

she just had to be black and it had to be chicken smh

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RIPrjacks23 said Its definitely not the food providers job to police what schools order.

It's not but an order of 11k cases of bone in chicken, where bone in food isn't even served, should've set off some kind of alarm.

DaQCKing said 11k cases of chicken wings, with bones, knowing the kids couldn't have bone in food, and it took an audit to discover that sh*t? The school food provider didn't flag that sh*t? It's supposed to be checks and balances along the process. Someone got lazy on their job.

Or was paid not to do it