The Democrat nominee Lauren Staley-Ferry committed a felony and also hasn't taken the time to actually pay back the small business she embezzled from.
As a voter and concerned citizen, I am sure you are as uneasy as we are and ask you to vote for the other candidate. For those who do not have the insight 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 apologized, although 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 complained how difficult it was to be blasted with her own mistakes.
This only goes to show a total lack of accountability for her own behavior aside from the way she might run the Will County clerks office, if she even can!
4 thoughts to consider before voting:
1. Ferry has committed felony forgery while the current Clerk's office has been clean of such corruption.
2. Ferry has not repaid her stolen gains to her former boss.
3. Ferry may not even be bondable to be our clerk because of her felony criminalrecord.
4. Mike Madigan dispatched his team to back up Ferry only demonstrating this might lead original site to more issues for Will County
More news.
A Will County Board member running for 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 the charge was filed.
According to court documents, the charge alleged 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 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 County Attorney’s Office. By that time, Staley-Ferry claimed she had already left the state and had returned to the Midwest, eventually settling in her hometown, Joliet.
.Jacinto said Staley-Ferry’s case was before the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office’s “records retention period,†but that it appears Staley-Ferry was not arrested. Instead, Jacinto said, it appears Staley-Ferry read what he said was sent a summons to appear in court, which she browse around this site failed to do.
Also, the Sheriff said, sentencing for a forgery conviction might probably be probation and restitution.
Lauren said she was unaware of the charges until she had already left Arizona, although she said she did not remember exactly when 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 notify them of the change in the status of the case.
When The Herald-News reached out to Staley-Ferry on Thursday, she said, while she did not remember the exact details, she rejects the charge.
“I am conscious of that,†Staley-Ferry said. “Obviously, that was many years ago.â€
Lauren said the charges had been “misdirected†and that there was “nothing there†regarding the charges.