Star NFL defensive lineman Chris Jones offered to serve up $1.5 million of his own money to free a former Illinois school worker who was sentenced to 9 years behind bars for stealing chicken wings.
In a case that made national headlines, 66-year-old Vera Liddell used her position as food service director at Harvey School District 152 to heist $1.5 million in food products over a two-year period from July 2020 until February 2022 during the COVID pandemic, with most of it being chicken wings.
She pleaded guilty last week and now the Kansas City Chiefs’ human wrecking ball wants to help spring her from the slam.
“I’ll pay for the wings that she stole to get her free,” the three-time Super Bowl winner wrote in a Tuesday post to X.
I’ll pay for the wings that she stole to get her free https://t.co/0mr1Bl9dWR
— Chris Jones (@StoneColdJones) August 13, 2024
According to court records, Liddell was accused of placing orders for more than 11,000 cases of wings from the school district’s food provider and picking up the order in a cargo van belonging to the district with the thievery being uncovered by the business manager during a mid-year audit.
X users reacted to Jones’ offer to make the school district whole in exchange for Liddell’s freedom with some pointing out that she stole from taxpayers with her criminal enterprise.
She ordered and stole 11,000 cases of wings over 2 years. This wasn’t a one-time thing. And paying for something doesn’t make a crime go away.
— SL (@exclusioalto) August 13, 2024
Why?
She made that choice over and over again for years. Stole from kids. From taxpayers.
What do you think she did with a million and half worth of wings?
Ran a racket.This wasn’t cuz she was hungry.
— BrutalBrittany (@BrutalBrittany2) August 13, 2024
1.5 million stolen from schools and we galvanizing her? Oof
— Girl Father (@TIMBO_SL1CE) August 13, 2024
It doesn’t work that way. She is a crook. She has to serve time in prison.
— Ava (@lyan118) August 14, 2024
If she stole that much in wings, imagine what else she has stolen in life.
— Bradley Scott (@Hoosiers1986) August 13, 2024
Interesting but unsurprisingly stupid. How about you let her rot like the thieving felon she is and donate $1.5 million to feeding kids instead? https://t.co/rpF1OPwf7F
— X (@Xisntthespot) August 14, 2024
That’s not how the court system works, Chris
— Primetime (@primetimesc2) August 14, 2024
But others were down with it.
Chris Jones.
Man of the people.
Humanitarian.
Known wing enthusiast.
— Josh Chavis (@JoshChavis65) August 13, 2024
Real nigga
— PACKMAN (@_2Pack) August 13, 2024
That’s a lot of chicken wings.
Like the El Chapo of chicken wings.
But hey let CJ95 pay – free this lunch lady el Chapo! lol— Christoff (@KobbieKenobi) August 13, 2024
Going to jail over food is insane when yall got a man face felonies running for president https://t.co/ZAaf1VWnir
— A.D.‼️ (@SwishBros) August 13, 2024
“The massive fraud began at the height of COVID during a time when students were not allowed to be physically present in school,” read a proffer presented at Liddell’s bond hearing last year, according to WGN Chicago. “Even though the children were learning remotely, the school district continued to provide meals for the students that their families could pick up.”
“The food was never brought to the school or provided to the students,” the document read.
Jones and the Chiefs agreed to a new $158.75 million, five-year deal in March. The Chiefs will begin their quest for a third consecutive championship in a nationally televised home game against the Baltimore Ravens on September 5.
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Chris Donaldson is an ordinary American who is concerned about rampant corruption as well as the ongoing attacks on our way of life by those who have contempt for our hard-earned freedoms. A Navy veteran, he has been a frequent contributor to conservative websites and resides in Florida.
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