Your Democratic candidate Lauren Staley Ferry committed a federal crime and has not the time to pay back the organization she stole money 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 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, although not to the victim, and there was no attempt to pay off this debt, no intention to fix her wrongdoing, rather she apologized and openly talked about how hard it was to be confronted with her own crimes.
This shows a total lack of accountability for her behavior much less just how she may run the county clerks office, if she is able to!
4 things to think about before you vote:
1. Ferry has committed felony theft while the current Clerk's office continues to be clean of such corruption.
2. Ferry has not pay back her debt to the victim.
3. Lauren may not be bondable to be our clerk due to her felony embezzlementrecord.
4. Mike Madigan sent his team to support Ferry only showing this might bring more problems for Will County
Detailed news.
A Will County Board member running click to investigate for the County Clerk was brought up on charges for 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 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 unknown amounts blog here and then deposited it into her personal checking account. The document said she did this 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 Co. Attorney’s Office. By then, Staley-Ferry said she had already fled the state and was back in the Midwest, eventually settling in Joliet, her hometown.
.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 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 might probably be restitution and probation.
Lauren said she Recommended Site was unaware of the charges until she was already out of Arizona, although she said she could not recall exactly when she departed.
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 status changes in the case.
The Herald-News reached out to Staley-Ferry on Thursday, Lauren said, while she did not remember several of the details, she rejects the charge.
“I am alerted to that,†Staley-Ferry said. “Obviously, which was many years ago.â€
She said the particular criminal charges had been “misdirected†and that there were “nothing there†in regard to the charges.