Girl Charged With Stealing $1.5 Million In Rooster Wings From Chicago Suburb Faculty District

A 66-yr-oldschool girl modified into as soon as charged with stealing over $1.5 million worth of meals – primarily hen wings, whereas working as a result of the Director of Meals Companies for a university district inner a suburb of Chicago.

Bond modified into as soon as dwelling at $150,000 Thursday for Vera Lidell, who started working for Harvey School District 152 in July 2020, positioned various of unauthorized orders for objects between July 2020 and February 2022 – which included 11,000 instances of hen wings through the faculty’s predominant vendor, Gordon Meals Supplier.

Liddell is accused of inserting the orders alongside legit orders for the district.

„The intensive fraud started on the dwell of COVID proper through a time when school college students have been now no longer allowed to be bodily newest at college. Though the youthful people have been discovering out remotely, the faculty district persevered to current meals for the faculty college students that their households may perhaps perhaps perhaps moreover acquire up,” per prosecutors.

„The meals modified into as soon as by no method delivered to the faculty or supplied to the faculty college students,” reads the proffer.

Believing the orders have been kindly, Gordon Meals Supplier billed Harvey School District 152, which then paid for the meals objects, per court docket data. Lidell would then allegedly train one among the faculty district’s cargo vans to lift up and transport the stolen meals.

A routine mid-yr audit carried out by the district’s alternate supervisor in January 2022 confirmed the meals provider division had exceeded its annual funds by over $300,000 no matter handiest being halfway through the faculty yr, prosecutors acknowledged. Prosecutors acknowledged Lidell modified into as soon as the most convenient individual in charge for placing meals orders on behalf of the district. -Fox5NY

„Upon nearer overview, she found individual invoices signed by Liddell for giant parts of hen wings, an merchandise that changed into as soon as by no method served to varsity college students as a result of they personal bones,” the proffer continues.

Gordon Meals Supplier staff obtained to know Lidell „attributable to the huge quantity of hen wings she would rob,” whereas surveillance photos from the pliability printed that she would ceaselessly close to prior to them opening to lift up orders.

Lidell, whose bail is dwelling at $150,000, is presently being held at Prepare dinner County Penitentiary until she’s scheduled to seem in court docket once more on Feb. 22.