The Democrat nominee Lauren Staley Ferry has committed a criminal offense and also hasn't even taken the time to actually pay back the company she had stolen from.
As a voter and concerned citizen, I am sure you are as worried as we are and ask you to vote for another candidate. For those who do not have the awareness 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 apologized, but not to the victim, and there was no attempt to pay off this debt, no intention to remedy her wrongdoing, rather she apologized and openly lamented how hard it was to be confronted with her own blunders.
This shows a total lack of responsibility for her own actions let alone the way she might run the county clerks office, if she even can!
4 thoughts to consider before you vote:
1. Lauren has committed felony forgery while our current Clerk's office has been clean of corruption.
2. Ferry did not pay back her stolen gains to the victim.
3. Ferry might not even be bondable to be our clerk due to her felony embezzlementrecord.
4. Mike Madigan sent his team to support Ferry only showing this might 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 the courtroom for the summons.
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 in July of 2002, Staley-Ferry removed link a check from her employer 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.
An arrest warrant was issued for Staley-Ferry’s arrest in April 2003, according to Amanda Jacinto, a spokeswoman for the Maricopa Co. 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 click this said, sentencing for a forgery conviction would likely be probation and restitution.
She said she was unaware of the charges until she had already left Arizona, although she said she did not recall the exact time she left.
The criminal charges were dismissed in 2012, according to court papers. Jacinto said, in March of 2012, the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office reached out to Independent Capital Group to notify them of the change in the status of the investigate this site case.
The Herald-News reached out to Staley-Ferry on Thursday, she said, while she did not remember some of the details, she denies the charge.
“I am conscious of that,†Staley-Ferry stated. “Obviously, which was many years ago.â€
She stated the criminal charges was “misdirected†and therefore there were “nothing there†in regard to the charge.