HARVEY, Ill. (AP) – A Chicago-area school district official has been charged in the theft of $1.5 million worth of food – mostly chicken wings. WGN-TV reports Monday that 66-year-old Vera Liddell was being held in the Cook County Jail on a $150,000 bond. Liddell worked as food service director for Harvey School District 152. Documents reviewed by the television station show that more than 11,000 cases of chicken wings were ordered from the district’s food provider and then picked up in a district cargo van. The food was ordered during the height of the coronavirus pandemic at a time when students were being educated remotely and not allowed to attend class in school buildings. The theft was discovered during an audit.
