Your Democrat nominee Lauren Staley-Ferry has committed a federal crime and also has not the time to actually return to the small business she had stolen 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 issue was brought to light, Ferry said she was sorry, but not to the injured person, and there was no attempt to repay this debt, no attempt to fix her wrong, rather she apologized and openly lamented how difficult it was to be blasted with her own crimes.
This shows a total lack of responsibility for her own behavior let alone the way she may 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 our current Clerk's office continues to be without such corruption.
2. Lauren has not repaid her stolen gains to the victim.
3. Ferry might not even be bondable to be our clerk due to her felony criminalrecord.
4. Mike Madigan sent his team to back up Ferry only showing this might bring more problems for Will County
Detailed news.
A Will County Board member running for the County Clerk was charged with 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 the charge was filed.
According to court documents, the charge alleged in July of 2002, Staley-Ferry stole a check from her employer 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 documents reported she did this without the knowledge or permission of her employer.
A warrant was issued for Staley-Ferry’s anonymous arrest in April 2003, according to Amanda Jacinto, a spokeswoman for the Maricopa Learn More County Attorney’s Office. By that time, Staley-Ferry said she had already left Arizona and had returned to the Midwest, eventually settling in her hometown, Joliet.
Ms. .Jacinto said Staley-Ferry’s case was before the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office’s “records retention time,†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, the Sheriff said, sentencing for a forgery conviction would likely 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 remember the exact time she left.
The charges were dropped 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 let them know the change in the status of the case.
When The Herald-News called Staley-Ferry on Thursday, she said, while she cannot recall read this article the exact details, she rejects the charge.
“I am aware of that,†Staley-Ferry said. “Obviously, which was in the past.â€
She said the particular charges had been “misdirected†and that there were “nothing there†in regard to the charges.