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A former Chicago-area school food service director is paying the price for winging it. Vera Liddell will spend the next nine years behind bars after pleading guilty to stealing one-point-five-million-dollars worth of chicken wings over a period of nearly two years. ABC 7 Chicago reports that Liddell began placing chicken wing orders with a supplier in July 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic. She was caught when a 2023 audit showed food services 300-thousand-dollars over budget just midway through the school year and the chicken wing purchases were discovered. Chicken wings reportedly are not served at schools because they contain bones. According to court records, Liddell had stolen eleven-thousand cases of wings.