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    Super Bowl Champ Offers $1.5M to Free Chicken Wing Thief

    By Chris Malone Méndez,

    10 hours ago

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    The Kansas City Chiefs have had an unbelievable record at the Super Bowl in recent years, racking up three titles since the turn of the decade. The early 2020s are best remembered, however, as the beginning of the COVID pandemic, and one woman's actions during those days is prompting one Chiefs player to come to her defense.

    Chicago-area school district director Vera Liddell pleaded guilty on Aug. 9 to the bizarre crime of stealing $1.5 million worth of chicken wings, receiving a nine-year prison sentence for her actions. But she's found a supporter in Chiefs defensive tackle and three-time Super Bowl champ Chris Jones, who is offering to help free her by paying off the cost of the wings.

    "I'll pay for the wings that she stole to get her free," Jones wrote on X.

    It all started when Liddell was given the job of ordering meat for take-home meals for students who were learning remotely during the pandemic, according to WGN . Prosecutors said she placed the orders and did the billing between July 2020 and February 2022, per ABC News .

    The jig was up last year when an audit uncovered that the district's food service department went $300,000 over its annual budget. The district's business manager found the invoices for $1.5 million worth of chicken wings , which raised eyebrows, as food items with bones aren't served to students. Prosecutors said she ordered more than 11,000 cases of chicken wings between August and November 2021 and picked them up in a district cargo van, according to CBS News .

    It remains to be seen whether local authorities will take up Jones on his offer.

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