NFL Star Bails out woman sentenced $1.5m Over Stolen Chicken Wings

An NFL star, has demonstrated an unusual flow of the milk of human kindness, bailing out a woman mandated to pay $1.5m Over Stolen Chicken Wings.

The star, Chris Jones of the National Football League in the United States, elected to offset the money for Vera Liddell, a chef based in Kansas City, the United States of America (USA).

Shortly before that offer, Liddell, a church-going 68-year-old woman from Cook County, Ill has resignedly told her lawyer: “My fate is in God’s hands”

Vera Liddell told her lawyer shortly before the Kansas City Chiefs defensive tackle tweeted his offer

 Even when the Chicago defense lawyer, Patrick O’Byrne saw reports that an NFL star wanted to put down over $1 million of his own money to get a local cafeteria worker out of prison, he thought it was a hoax, a report in The people said..

I’ll pay for the wings that she stole to get her free”, he had said.

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Vera Liddell, who was working as a cafeteria consultant for an Illinois school district, and admitted to stealing $1.5 million worth of chicken wings – 11,000 cases – between July 2020 and February 2022, according to her other lawyer, Gregory LaPapa.

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The chicken wings were intended for underprivileged children receiving free lunches during the pandemic shutdown, he says.

Vera Liddel

O’Byrne said the had no previous criminal record, but in the particular case made false orders of chicken wings, which she then resold and gambled away the proceeds.

“She’s just a little sweetheart that’s got a gambling problem,” says O’Byrne, adding: “She feels beyond terrible about this. This is totally uncharacteristic of her. It was the disease taking over.”

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Records obtained by PEOPLE show that she struggled financially, filing for bankruptcy at least twice in Chicago courts in 2009 and 2016.

August 9, Liddell pleaded guilty to one count of felony theft of more than $1 million and was sentenced to 9 years in prison, according to the Cook County’s Sixth Municipal District Circuit Court clerk’s office.

Liddell – who, per the courts, was given credit for the six days she had already spent in jail – was slated for discharge August 3, 2030 and would have been up for parole in 2029, according to the Illinois Department of Corrections online inmate roster.

Shortly before she took the plea deal, she had reportedly her lawyer, O’Byrne: “My fate is in God’s hands.”

And truly, God took over for her. On Wednesday, Aug. 14, Liddell was admitted to Logan Correctional Facility, according to her online inmate roster.

That same day, O’Byrne learned about Jones’s Tweet.

Even when the Chicago defense lawyer, Patrick O’Byrne saw reports that an NFL star wanted to put down over $1 million of his own money to get a local cafeteria worker out of prison, he thought it was a hoax, a report in The people said..

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I’ll pay for the wings that she stole to get her free”, he had said.

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Vera Liddell, who was working as a cafeteria consultant for an Illinois school district, and admitted to stealing $1.5 million worth of chicken wings – 11,000 cases – between July 2020 and February 2022, according to her other lawyer, Gregory LaPapa.

The chicken wings were intended for underprivileged children receiving free lunches during the pandemic shutdown, he says.

O’Byrne said the had no previous criminal record, but in the particular case made false orders of chicken wings, which she then resold and gambled away the proceeds.

“She’s just a little sweetheart that’s got a gambling problem,” says O’Byrne, adding: “She feels beyond terrible about this. This is totally uncharacteristic of her. It was the disease taking over.”

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Records obtained by PEOPLE show that she struggled financially, filing for bankruptcy at least twice in Chicago courts in 2009 and 2016.

August 9, Liddell pleaded guilty to one count of felony theft of more than $1 million and was sentenced to 9 years in prison, according to the Cook County’s Sixth Municipal District Circuit Court clerk’s office.

Liddell – who, per the courts, was given credit for the six days she had already spent in jail – was slated for discharge August 3, 2030 and would have been up for parole in 2029, according to the Illinois Department of Corrections online inmate roster.

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Shortly before she took the plea deal, she had reportedly her lawyer, O’Byrne: “My fate is in God’s hands.”

And truly, God took over for her. On Wednesday, Aug. 14, Liddell was admitted to Logan Correctional Facility, according to her online inmate roster.

That same day, O’Byrne learned about Jones’s Tweet.

“I was stunned,” O’Byrne recalls. “I’ve been doing this for 42 years, and I’ve never heard of anything like this.”

O’Byrne spent a good deal of time on the phone, waiting on hold, trying to contact the Chiefs before he says he was disconnected. Then he says he got a call from someone he believes to be representing Jones.

“I hope everything works out so that we can get her out,” O’Byrne says.

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PEOPLE reached out to Jones, as well as to his agent and a spokesman for the Kansas City Chiefs to confirm the star’s intent to cover the cost of the chicken wings. Jones’s representatives confirmed first to PEOPLE that they “are in contact with Ms. Liddell’s attorney, gathering information on the case.”

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Unfortunately, her lawyers say, Jones’s offer is complicated by the fact that she has already been sentenced and placed in state custody as a convicted felon.

They have 30 days from her sentencing to submit a motion to vacate her earlier plea and request a payment of restitution instead.

“The clock is ticking,” LaPapa says. “And Chris Jones has to be there with a checkbook