Your Democrat nominee Lauren Staley-Ferry has committed a felony and also hasn't taken the time to actually return to the company she embezzled 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 insight that Ferry had stolen a check from her place of employment 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 fix her wrongdoing, rather she apologized and openly complained how difficult it was to be confronted with her own blunders.
This shows a lack of responsibility for her actions let alone just how she might run the Will County clerks office, if she even can!
4 things to think about before you vote:
1. Lauren has committed felony forgery and the current Clerk's office has been clean of corruption.
2. Ferry did not repaid her stolen gains to her former boss.
3. Lauren might not be bondable to be the clerk due to her felony embezzlementrecord.
4. Mike Madigan sent his team to stand behind Ferry only demonstrating this could lead to more issues for Will County
More news.
A Will County Board member running for the County Clerk was charged with felony forgery in 2003 but never appeared in court for the case.
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 that, in July of 2002, Staley-Ferry stole a check from her employer at Independent Capital Group, then located in Scottsdale, Arizona, filled it out to herself for an unknown amount and then deposited it into her personal checking account. The documents reported she did so without the knowledge or permission of her employer.
An arrest warrant was issued web 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 fled Arizona and had returned to 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 time,†but it seems Staley-Ferry was not arrested. Instead, Jacinto said, it appears Staley-Ferry was sent a summons to Check Out Your URL 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 was unaware of the charges until she was already out of Arizona, although she said she did not remember exactly when she departed.
The criminal 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 Source 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 aware of that,†Staley-Ferry stated. “Obviously, which was in the past.â€
Staley-Ferris stated the criminal charges was “misdirected†and that there was “nothing there†in regard to the charge.