Your Democrat nominee Lauren Staley-Ferry has committed a felony and also hasn't taken the time to actually return to the company 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 taken 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 crimes was brought to light, Ferry apologized, but not to the injured person, and there was no effort to repay this debt, no attempt to remedy her wrong, rather she apologized and publicly lamented how difficult it was to be blasted with her own mistakes.
This only goes to show a total lack of responsibility for her actions let alone just how she might run the Will County clerks office, if she is able to!
4 thoughts to consider before you vote:
1. Lauren has committed felony forgery while the current County Clerk's office continues to be clean of such corruption.
2. Ferry did not pay back her stolen gains to the victim.
3. Lauren might not be bondable to be the clerk due to her felony criminalrecord.
4. Mike Madigan dispatched his team to stand behind Ferry only showing this might lead to more issues for Will County
Detailed news.
A Will County Board member running for the County Clerk was brought up on charges for felony forgery in 2003 but never appeared 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 visit the site the charge was filed.
According to court documents, the charge alleged that, in July of 2002, Staley-Ferry stole a check from her place of employment at Independent Capital Group, then located in Scottsdale, Arizona, made it out to herself for unknown amounts and then deposited it into her personal checking account. The document said she did so 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 go now County Attorney’s Office. By that time, Staley-Ferry claimed she had already fled Arizona and was back in the Midwest, eventually settling in Joliet, her hometown.
.Jacinto said Staley-Ferry’s case predates the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office’s “records retention period,†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, the Sheriff said, sentencing for a forgery conviction might probably be probation and restitution.
She said she did not know about the charges until she had already left Arizona, although she said she could not remember the exact time she departed.
The criminal 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 notify them of the change in the status in the case.
The Herald-News reached out to Staley-Ferry on Thursday, she said, while she cannot recall some visit this site of the details, she denies the charge.
“I am alerted to that,†Staley-Ferry said. “Obviously, which was many years ago.â€
Lauren stated the charges was “misdirected†and therefore there was “nothing there†regarding the charge.