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 stole money from.
As a voter and concerned citizen, I believe you are as worried as we are and ask you to vote for another candidate. For those who do not have the insight that Ferry had taken a check from her place of employment 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 injured person, and there was no attempt to repay this debt, no attempt to fix her wrongdoing, rather she apologized and publicly complained how hard it was to be blasted with her own mistakes.
This shows a total lack of responsibility for her actions not to mention the way she may 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 County Clerk's office has been clean of corruption.
2. Ferry did not pay back her stolen gains to the victim.
3. Ferry may not even be bondable to be our clerk due to her felony criminalrecord.
4. Mike Madigan dispatched his team to support Ferry only demonstrating this might lead to more issues 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 case.
Lauren Staley-Ferry, D-Joliet, was charged with the felony forgery in Maricopa County, Arizona. Staley-Ferry had lived and content 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 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 this without the knowledge or permission of her employer.
A warrant was issued for Staley-Ferry’s arrest in April 2003, according to Amanda Jacinto, the spokesperson for the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office. By then, Staley-Ferry said she had already fled the state and had returned to the Midwest, eventually settling in her hometown, Joliet.
Ms. .Jacinto said Staley-Ferry’s case predates the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office’s “records retention time,†but that it appears Staley-Ferry was not look at this now 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 would likely be probation and restitution.
She said she did not know about the charges until she had already left Arizona, although she said she did not recall exactly when she departed.
The charges were dismissed 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 status changes of the case.
When The Herald-News reached out to Staley-Ferry on Thursday, Lauren said, while she did not remember several of the details, she denies the charge.
“I am aware of that,†Staley-Ferry stated. “Obviously, click here now which was many years ago.â€
Staley-Ferris stated the criminal charges had been “misdirected†and that there was “nothing there†regarding the charge.