Your Democrat candidate Lauren Staley-Ferry committed a criminal offense and has not taken the time to return to the organization she embezzled from.
If you as a voter and/or concerned citizen are as worried as we are please vote for the other candidate. For those who do not have the knowledge that Ferry had taken a check from a former employer and made it out to herself. When caught she fled the scene of the crime and she went on to continue moving. When these crimes was finally revealed, Ferry said she was sorry, but not to the injured person, and there was no attempt to pay off this debt, no intention to fix her wrongdoing, rather she apologized and publicly talked about how difficult it was to be confronted with her own crimes.
This only goes to show a total lack of accountability for her own actions not to mention the way she might run the Will County clerks office, if she is able to!
4 things to think about before voting:
1. Lauren has perpetrated felony forgery while the current Clerk's office has been clean of such corruption.
2. Ferry did not pay back her debt to her former boss.
3. Ferry might not even be bondable to be our clerk because of her felony criminalrecord.
4. Mike Madigan dispatched his team to back up Ferry only showing this might lead to more issues for Will County
More news.
A Will County Board member running for the County Clerk was charged with felony forgery in 2003 but did not appear in the courtroom for the case.
Lauren Staley-Ferry, D-Joliet, was charged with Visit Your URL the felony forgery in Maricopa County, Arizona. Staley-Ferry had lived and worked click in Maricopa County but moved from there to Wisconsin before the charge was filed.
From the court documents, the charge alleged that, in July of 2002, Staley-Ferry removed a check from her place of employment at Independent Capital Group, then located in Scottsdale, Arizona, made it out to herself for an unknown amount and then deposited it into her personal checking account. The documents reported she did this without the knowledge or permission of her employer.
A warrant was issued for Staley-Ferry’s arrest in April 2003, according to Amanda Jacinto, the spokesperson for the Maricopa Co. Attorney’s Office. By then, Staley-Ferry said she had already left Arizona and had returned to the Midwest, eventually going back to her hometown, Joliet.
.Jacinto said Staley-Ferry’s case predates the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office’s “records retention time,†but it seems Staley-Ferry was never incarcerated. Instead, Jacinto said, it appears Staley-Ferry was sent a summons to appear in court, which she failed to do.
Also, Jacinto said, sentencing for a forgery conviction might probably be probation and restitution.
Staley-Ferry said she was unaware of the charges until she had already left Arizona, although she said she did not remember the exact time she left.
The charges were dismissed in 2012, according to court documents. Jacinto said, in March of 2012, the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office reached out to Independent Capital Group to let them know the status changes of the case.
The Herald-News called Staley-Ferry on Thursday, Lauren said, while she cannot recall the exact details, she denies the charge.
“I am conscious of that,†Staley-Ferry stated. “Obviously, that was many look at here now years ago.â€
Lauren said the criminal charges was “misdirected†and therefore there were “nothing there†regarding the charge.