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And now, chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher.

Vera Lydell, sentenced to nine years in prison.

Nine years, nine years in prison for stealing 1.5 million dollars worth of chicken wings.

Yes, she was the Food Service Director for Harvey School District 152 near Chicago.

Now she stole the wings from July 2020 to February 2022, according to all reports. I remember when they first

arrested her and found out about this and she has now pled guilty and she is sentenced to again nine years in prison. Now the wings were

ordered as part of a take-home meal scheme for students in the district who were doing

remote learning at the time, but they say the food did not end up on the

students plates and they say that she ordered more than 11,000 cases of chicken wings from the school

district's food provider and picked up the order in a district cargo van.

Okay, I remember doing this story when it first happened and I thought

okay well you know when we go to court and we'll find out what happened to the chicken wings.

Nope we don't know.

All they say is, yep, the theft was described as a massive fraud.

It was discovered during a mid-year audit.

It was discovered because she had ordered chicken wings that contained

bones and they do not serve chicken wings with bones to students. So they said, hey, that's a wonder why we're $300,000 or $300,000 over budget and we're only halfway

through the school year. Oh, I guess that's why.

Yeah.

So the Cook County State Attorney's Office has said that she pleaded guilty and to theft and

operating a criminal enterprise, but it doesn't say anywhere what happened to the

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