"Bond was set at $150,000 Thursday for a Dolton woman accused of stealing over $1.5 million of food - primarily chicken wings....."
"Between July 2020 and February 2022, prosecutors said Liddell placed hundreds of unauthorized orders for food items, including 11,000 cases of chicken wings, through the school district's main supplier, ....."
Ok, let's do some math....
Total value stolen was $1.5 million.
11,000 cases of chicken wings.
She worked July 2020 to Feb 2022, for a total of 20 months.
$1.5 million dollars for 11,000 cases of chicken wings, comes to $136.36/case.
These must have been large boxes. 45 lb cases (if bought at $3/lb)
Even larger boxes if bought at bulk rate.
11,000 cases of wings, if evenly distributed over time, is 550 cases per month.
(137 cases per week, or 27 cases per day x 5 days/wk).
$1.5 million dollars stolen over 20 months = $75k per month.
That's a large loss in the school budget to not be obviously noticed.
Summary:
So these were LARGE cases (40-50lbs/each), 27 cases stolen per work-day (M-F), for 1.5 years straight.
Wow.
"Between July 2020 and February 2022, prosecutors said Liddell placed hundreds of unauthorized orders for food items, including 11,000 cases of chicken wings, through the school district's main supplier, ....."
Ok, let's do some math....
Total value stolen was $1.5 million.
11,000 cases of chicken wings.
She worked July 2020 to Feb 2022, for a total of 20 months.
$1.5 million dollars for 11,000 cases of chicken wings, comes to $136.36/case.
These must have been large boxes. 45 lb cases (if bought at $3/lb)
Even larger boxes if bought at bulk rate.
11,000 cases of wings, if evenly distributed over time, is 550 cases per month.
(137 cases per week, or 27 cases per day x 5 days/wk).
$1.5 million dollars stolen over 20 months = $75k per month.
That's a large loss in the school budget to not be obviously noticed.
Summary:
So these were LARGE cases (40-50lbs/each), 27 cases stolen per work-day (M-F), for 1.5 years straight.
Wow.