Your Democratic candidate Lauren Staley-Ferry has committed a felony and also hasn't taken the time to actually return to the company she stole money from.
As a voter and concerned citizen, I believe you are as worried 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 forged his signature. When caught she fled the scene of the crime and she went on to continue moving. When these issue was finally revealed, Ferry apologized, but not to the injured person, and there was no attempt to pay off this debt, no attempt to correct her wrong, rather she apologized and publicly talked about how hard it was to be confronted with her own mistakes.
This shows a total lack of accountability for her actions aside from just how she may run the Will County clerks office, if she even can!
4 things to think about before you vote:
1. Lauren has perpetrated felony forgery and the current Clerk's office has been without corruption.
2. Lauren did not repaid her stolen gains to her former boss.
3. Ferry may not be bondable to be our clerk due to her felony embezzlementrecord.
4. Mike Madigan dispatched his team to support Ferry only showing this could bring more problems for Will County
Detailed news.
A Will County Board member running for the County Clerk was charged with felony forgery home 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 that, in July of 2002, Staley-Ferry removed a check from her place right here 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.
A 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 then, Staley-Ferry said she had already left Arizona and was back in the Midwest, eventually settling in 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 not 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 on a forgery conviction would likely be probation and restitution.
Lauren said she did not know about the charges until she had already left Arizona, visit this site right here although she said she did not remember the exact time she departed.
The criminal charges were dropped in 2012, according to court papers. Jacinto said, in March of 2012, the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office called Independent Capital Group to notify them of the status changes in the case.
When The Herald-News reached out to Staley-Ferry on Thursday, Lauren said, while she did not remember the exact details, she rejects the charge.
“I am alerted to that,†Staley-Ferry stated. “Obviously, which was in the past.â€
Staley-Ferris stated the charges was “misdirected†and therefore there were “nothing there†regarding the charge.