Chris Jones Offers $1.5M To Replace Stolen Chicken Wings, Free Woman From Prison | TMZ Live
Chris Jones is gunning to spring a convicted chicken wing thief from prison ... the Chiefs superstar has offered to pay $1.5 million after a cafeteria employee was sentenced to 9 years behind bars for stealing 11k cases of Buffalo's favorite food!
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00:00Okay, my favorite story.
00:01Yes, moving on to a Kansas City Chiefs superstar
00:05who is standing up for a woman.
00:06It is not Travis Kelsey or Taylor Swift.
00:09It's Chris Jones, who is probably,
00:13on the defense, is the superstar of the Chiefs.
00:16And he is now coming through the defense
00:18of a woman in Chicago who was jailed over chicken wings.
00:22Lots and lots and lots of chicken wings.
00:24A lot of chicken wings.
00:26Authorities in Chicago say that Vera, Vera Liddell,
00:31was stealing $1.5 million worth of chicken wings
00:36from a school cafeteria over years.
00:39She worked at the school.
00:40I think this was over two years.
00:42And she was taking like cases of them out.
00:4411,000 cases.
00:46That's crazy.
00:48Babcock, that's more than you eat.
00:51Actually, Mike, where do you get your wings?
00:54Where do you get your wings?
00:55You guys have found my wing dealer now.
00:57It's Vera Liddell.
00:59Yeah, this is crazy.
01:00So she gets, yeah, so she gets,
01:03well, she pleads guilty and is sentenced
01:05to nine years in prison.
01:06This just happened a couple of days ago.
01:08Yeah, because it was $1.5 million.
01:11Now the district only caught her after they did an audit
01:15because they were way over budget for the food cost.
01:20So yeah, so Charles, so nine years in prison.
01:23So now Chris Jones comes out
01:25and he just signed this $158 million extension.
01:27And he says, I'll pay for the wings
01:29that she stole to get her free.
01:31Does Chris understand, like if you rob a bank
01:36and you take $100,000,
01:38somebody can't say, well, I'll pay the 100,000
01:40and he gets out of jail.
01:41It doesn't work.
01:42Right, like I'm sure the school district
01:44would love the money back,
01:45but it's not gonna like spring her from prison.
01:48No, it's not happening.
01:50I think Chris's issue is just that nine years does sound,
01:54and even it landed on you as, that's a lot.
01:57And I know that it was a lot of chicken wings.
02:00It was worth a lot of money, but nine years in prison.
02:03I've seen people like, you know, kill people,
02:05you know, manslaughter and get far less.
02:08They get three years.
02:10So when she gets out and she can do one show,
02:14what's the show gonna be?
02:15I don't know.
02:16Hot Ones?
02:17Yes.
02:18Oh gosh.
02:19Exactly Babcock.
02:2011 years and I finally got your humor, yes.
02:24I knew you'd get a chicken, a chicken one here.
02:26Wow.
02:27My name is Helena Jones and I think that
02:29it's a great deal for him,
02:31but I do feel like she has to have
02:32some type of accountability for stealing from children.
02:35You know, that were in a situation where COVID was,
02:38you know, happening and it was a hard time for everyone,
02:40but she still has to have some type of accountability
02:43when it comes to stealing those chicken wings.
02:4611,000.
02:47I mean, there does need to be some accountability.
02:48No, I was stealing from the school.
02:50But when you talk about nine years, it's true.
02:51Manslaughter's three years.
02:53Yeah.
02:53Okay.