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- 0:00Speaker 1: He again, Sharlam.
- 0:09Speaker 2: Is true.
- 0:10Speaker 3: Yeah dog here today for Twoday, August thirteenth goes to
- 0:13Speaker 3: Vera Laddell now Veria is the school district official in
- 0:16Speaker 3: Chicago who was recently given a nine year jail sentence
- 0:19Speaker 3: after pleading guilty is stealing one point five million dollars
- 0:23Speaker 3: worth of you.
- 0:25Speaker 2: Know what, Let's go to Fox twenty sixth Houston for
- 0:27Speaker 2: the report.
- 0:27Speaker 4: Please, Chasing chicken wing dreams during the pandemic was a
- 0:31Speaker 4: mission Vera Laddell in Chicago was on and the slick
- 0:34Speaker 4: ass senior citizen had no chill.
- 0:37Speaker 2: Prosecutors say the.
- 0:38Speaker 4: Harvey School District food service manager stood on business. She
- 0:43Speaker 4: ordered over eleven thousand cases of chicken wings that never
- 0:47Speaker 4: touched the longing lips of any students.
- 0:50Speaker 2: The total loss to the.
- 0:51Speaker 4: Damn district was one point five million dollars. So the
- 0:55Speaker 4: question is what did the looting lunch lady do with
- 0:58Speaker 4: the wandering wings. Vera Ladell was arrested and faces felony charges.
- 1:03Speaker 4: Now for now she's booked in the Cook County jail
- 1:07Speaker 4: where she will get three hots in a cock, but
- 1:09Speaker 4: not likely any of those damn chicken wings.
- 1:13Speaker 3: Who is that on Fox twenty six with all that
- 1:15Speaker 3: amazing alliteration.
- 1:17Speaker 1: They say, damn he said, dropping the clues.
- 1:20Speaker 2: Bonus to whoever that was to find me that person's.
- 1:23Speaker 3: Name stood on business wow uh vera. This is the
- 1:27Speaker 3: biggest of big bactivity since big backs have been doing
- 1:29Speaker 3: big activities. Okay, we all know inflation has been bad,
- 1:32Speaker 3: but when did chicken wings start costing more than a
- 1:34Speaker 3: small country's GDP one point five million? Vera stole one
- 1:38Speaker 3: point five million dollars in chicken wings during the pandemic.
- 1:42Speaker 3: All these wings that were meant for children doing remote learning,
- 1:46Speaker 3: but who were still picking up school meals. Right, all
- 1:49Speaker 3: these kids were doing remote learning, but they were still
- 1:51Speaker 3: picking up school meals, So all the chicken wings were
- 1:52Speaker 3: for them. Barry Ladell stole them off. Okay, very Ladell
- 1:56Speaker 3: stole enough chicken wings to last through a thousand rock Nation,
- 1:59Speaker 3: Super Bowl, happen Time shows. Let me tell you something, man,
- 2:01Speaker 3: whether it's Governor Tim Wallas in Minnesota or Governor josh A.
- 2:04Speaker 3: Peril in Pennsylvania, if you have some type of universal
- 2:07Speaker 3: food program, breakfast, lunch, whatever it is, I salute you. Okay,
- 2:11Speaker 3: I am an ambassador for the food Bank in Harlem.
- 2:14Speaker 3: They provide groceries and free meals for people that solute
- 2:17Speaker 3: the work they do. If you want to support, go
- 2:19Speaker 3: to Food Bank NYC dot org. The City of Charleston,
- 2:22Speaker 3: South Carolina Hope Center they provide food assistance for the
- 2:24Speaker 3: homeless in Charleston, South Carolina.
- 2:28Speaker 2: Hell this weekend.
- 2:28Speaker 3: This Saturday, I'm doing my ninth annual book back Driving
- 2:31Speaker 3: Schools Supply giveaway in Most Corner, South Carolina at the
- 2:33Speaker 3: Berkeley High School student parking lot from.
- 2:35Speaker 2: Ten to one.
- 2:35Speaker 3: We got free fried fish plates and I got the
- 2:38Speaker 3: Mini Mark Caribbean Grocery and Cuisine. They gonna have a
- 2:41Speaker 3: food truck out there providing free Jamaican food. Okay, the
- 2:44Speaker 3: moral of the story is My point is the hood
- 2:46Speaker 3: gotta eat man, all right. Folks is out here starving,
- 2:49Speaker 3: and some of us are trying to do our best
- 2:51Speaker 3: to make sure they eat.
- 2:52Speaker 2: So to me, Bera, what you did is diabolical.
- 2:55Speaker 3: You was literally taking food out of the mouths of babies,
- 2:58Speaker 3: all right.
- 2:58Speaker 2: These chicken wings were for take comb.
- 3:00Speaker 3: Meals for students learning remotely during the pandemic. The school
- 3:04Speaker 3: district was providing meals for the students that their families
- 3:09Speaker 3: could pick up drop on the clothes bombs for Harvey
- 3:11Speaker 3: School District one fifty two near Chicago. These are the
- 3:14Speaker 3: kind of stories that I like to hear about. All right,
- 3:16Speaker 3: take a burden off people, folks out here hurting. Put
- 3:19Speaker 3: some food in some folks stomach.
- 3:20Speaker 2: I love it.
- 3:21Speaker 3: Verah, you sixty eight years old. That's what you're supposed
- 3:24Speaker 3: to be doing, putting food in kids stomach. You're supposed
- 3:27Speaker 3: to be big mama. What happened to the big mambas
- 3:29Speaker 3: that used to make sure everybody ate? Okay, vera eleven
- 3:32Speaker 3: thousand cases the chicken wings?
- 3:34Speaker 2: You must have sold those to Harolds for the low.
- 3:36Speaker 3: All right, come on, now, one of these fried chicken
- 3:39Speaker 3: places in Chicago came up.
- 3:40Speaker 2: Who was it?
- 3:41Speaker 3: Chicago's home of chicken and waffles? Uncle remus saucy fried
- 3:44Speaker 3: chicken beer. You didn't do this without a plan. You
- 3:47Speaker 3: don't just steal eleven thousand cases of chicken wings one
- 3:50Speaker 3: point five million dollars in chicken wings and not have
- 3:53Speaker 3: a place to sell them.
- 3:55Speaker 2: Clearly, you don't believe it's snitching.
- 3:57Speaker 3: Okay, but you sixty eight and you got nine years
- 4:00Speaker 3: That mean you're about to be in prison until you
- 4:02Speaker 3: seventy seven. Lord, have mercy. Those wings you stole aren't
- 4:07Speaker 3: the only thing that's fried. Because there's no way in
- 4:10Speaker 3: hell I would want to spend my golden years behind bars.
- 4:12Speaker 3: I did some research, and by research I mean chat
- 4:15Speaker 3: GPT and I did some googles. The question I asked
- 4:18Speaker 3: was what should you be doing in your seventies. Here
- 4:21Speaker 3: are some things they say, stang active, pursuing hobbies, socializing, traveling,
- 4:27Speaker 3: can't do that in prison. Planning for the future, well,
- 4:29Speaker 3: at least you know where you're going to be for
- 4:30Speaker 3: the next nine years. You can socialize in prison, not
- 4:33Speaker 3: the way she probably want to. The marrow of the
- 4:35Speaker 3: story is nowhere on this list. Did it say be
- 4:38Speaker 3: in prison? Okay, when you're seventy plus, you should be
- 4:41Speaker 3: taking the time to enjoy the fruits of your labor
- 4:43Speaker 3: and the relationships you've built over the years. If then
- 4:46Speaker 3: people still alive, but no vera you want to steal
- 4:50Speaker 3: chicken wings from the kids. At what point do we
- 4:53Speaker 3: realize there is no right way to do the wrong thing.
- 4:57Speaker 2: I don't care what age you are.
- 4:58Speaker 3: If you can spend time, energy and brain power playing
- 5:02Speaker 3: in schemes like this, stealing eleven thousand in chicken wings
- 5:05Speaker 3: one point five million dollars in chicken wings. If you
- 5:08Speaker 3: can work for the school district, learn how things are
- 5:10Speaker 3: working internally, and then come up with the idea to
- 5:13Speaker 3: successfully order and steal this much chicken wings, then you
- 5:16Speaker 3: can truly do any damn thing you put your mind to.
- 5:19Speaker 2: I believe in you, even if you don't believe in yourself.
- 5:22Speaker 3: Please give via ladell to sweet Sounds of the Hamiltons you.
- 5:30Speaker 1: Oh, oh the day.
- 5:40Speaker 3: Ye, I just fought a big shadow cast over here.
- 5:47Speaker 2: What happened?
- 5:48Speaker 1: Did you play.
- 5:53Speaker 3: The president of the Fat Lives Matter Committee who's actually
- 5:56Speaker 3: slimming down?
- 5:57Speaker 5: Well, no, it's sterilized, Laurence. I was in the bathroom
- 6:00Speaker 5: and I heard you talking about chicken. So I came
- 6:02Speaker 5: out here just to let you know, to put some
- 6:04Speaker 5: insight because I first have some experience in this first hand.
- 6:09Speaker 5: When I worked at Burger King, I used to order
- 6:12Speaker 5: extra cookies because they never used to really make as
- 6:14Speaker 5: many cookies as they say, and I used to order
- 6:16Speaker 5: the boxes.
- 6:17Speaker 1: Extra, and then I would steal the boxes and take.
- 6:19Speaker 5: It home, and we used to sell them to a
- 6:21Speaker 5: little you know, the little the Mama Pop type of
- 6:24Speaker 5: spots that have bakeries and shit.
- 6:25Speaker 1: We used to tell the cookie ough to that you
- 6:26Speaker 1: can't curse.
- 6:27Speaker 2: You just cursed. Well, here's the thing.
- 6:29Speaker 3: I wouldn't have no problem with that if you actually
- 6:32Speaker 3: just gave the cookies away to the kids. If you
- 6:34Speaker 3: did that and gave them away, But the fact you
- 6:37Speaker 3: were selling them to the kits, not.
- 6:38Speaker 5: To the kids, to the Mama pops that had bakeries
- 6:41Speaker 5: that you know they would sell stuff like that, I'd
- 6:43Speaker 5: be like, oh, you want some cookie though.
- 6:44Speaker 1: We got the top of the line, high grade cookie
- 6:46Speaker 1: though stuff. They were buying the boxes and stuff for
- 6:48Speaker 1: some reason. I don't believe your cookies made it to
- 6:50Speaker 1: the shops. I believe some of them did.
- 6:53Speaker 5: I promised you about if we would do like we do,
- 6:56Speaker 5: like five boxes a week, I promised you three and
- 6:58Speaker 5: a half would make.
- 6:58Speaker 1: It's the statute of limitation up. Okay, get arrested for this,
- 7:03Speaker 1: you you. I can't get James up for that, right,
- 7:06Speaker 1: I'm sure you can. I'm sure you can't. We all
- 7:08Speaker 1: know what burger king was though, what state see you're
- 7:11Speaker 1: trying to get me.
- 7:12Speaker 3: You was about to say it too, but no, no, no,
- 7:16Speaker 3: you know what mine, I'm bad Joe allegedly alleged.
- 7:21Speaker 2: In the stories.
- 7:21Speaker 3: You hear that hair brain scheme Matt came up with.
- 7:24Speaker 3: I'm glad you started using that energy to be more
- 7:27Speaker 3: creative and become a comedian and write jokes. You know
- 7:30Speaker 3: what I mean. You did something with that. Okay, if
- 7:33Speaker 3: you can come up with hair brain schemes like that to.
- 7:36Speaker 2: Steal, you can do anything true.
- 7:39Speaker 1: But that's you know what I mean, that's right now.
- 7:41Speaker 1: That's the last time was the last time you stole food?
- 7:44Speaker 1: Food or in general?
- 7:48Speaker 2: Yeah, Jesus Christ God, all right, vera blessed God, bless ya.
- 7:54Speaker 1: All right, well, thank you for that.
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