The Democratic nominee Lauren Staley Ferry has committed a federal crime and also hasn't the time to actually return to the organization she stole money 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 awareness that Ferry had stolen a check from a former employer and made it out to herself. When caught she moved out of state and she went on to continue moving. When these issue was finally revealed, Ferry said she was sorry, but not to the injured person, and there was no effort to pay off this debt, no intention to fix her wrongdoing, rather she apologized and openly lamented how hard it was to be blasted with her own mistakes.
This only goes to show a total lack of accountability for her behavior aside from the way she might run the Will County clerks office, if she is able to!
4 thoughts to consider before you vote:
1. Lauren has perpetrated felony forgery while our current County Clerk's office has been without corruption.
2. Ferry has not pay back her stolen gains to the victim.
3. Ferry might not be bondable to be our clerk because of her felony embezzlementrecord.
4. Mike Madigan sent his team to support Ferry only showing this could bring more problems for Will County
More news.
A Will County Board member running for county clerk was charged with felony forgery in 2003 but did not appear in court for the case.
Lauren Staley-Ferry, D-Joliet, was charged with the felony forgery in Maricopa County, Arizona. Staley-Ferry had lived and worked 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 additional reading removed a check from her employer at Independent Capital Group, then located in Scottsdale, Arizona, filled it out to herself for an unknown amount and then deposited it into her personal checking that site account. The documents reported she did this without the knowledge or permission of her employer.
An arrest warrant was issued for Staley-Ferry’s arrest in April 2003, according to Amanda Jacinto, the spokesperson for the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office. By that time, Staley-Ferry said she had already fled the state and had returned to the Midwest, eventually going back to Joliet, her hometown.
.Jacinto said Staley-Ferry’s case was before the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office’s “records retention period,†but it seems Staley-Ferry was never arrested. Instead, Jacinto said, it appears Staley-Ferry was sent a summons to appear in court, which she failed to do.
Also, Jacinto said, sentencing Clicking Here on a forgery conviction might probably be restitution and probation.
Staley-Ferry said she was unaware of the charges until she was already out of Arizona, although she said she did not recall exactly when she departed.
The charges were dropped in 2012, as specified in the court documents. Jacinto said, in March of 2012, the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office called Independent Capital Group to let them know the status changes of the case.
The Herald-News reached out to Staley-Ferry on Thursday, Lauren said, while she cannot recall some of the details, she rejects the charge.
“I am alerted to that,†Staley-Ferry said. “Obviously, that was in the past.â€
She said the particular criminal charges was “misdirected†and therefore there was “nothing there†regarding the charge.