The Democratic candidate Lauren Staley Ferry committed a criminal offense and also has not taken the time to actually return to the company 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 her place of employment and made it out to herself. When caught she moved out of state and she went on to continue moving. When these issue was brought to light, Ferry apologized, although not to the injured person, and there was no attempt to repay this debt, no intention 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 accountability for her own behavior not to mention just how she may run the county clerks office, if she even can!
4 things to think about before voting:
1. Lauren has committed felony theft and our current Clerk's office continues to be without such corruption.
2. Ferry has not repaid her debt to the victim.
3. Ferry might not even be bondable to be our clerk due to her felony criminalrecord.
4. Mike Madigan dispatched his team to stand behind Ferry only demonstrating this could lead to more issues for Will County
Detailed news.
A Will County Board member running for the County Clerk was charged with felony forgery in 2003 but never appeared in the courtroom for the summons.
Lauren websites 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 unknown amounts and then deposited it into her personal checking account. The documents reported 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 claimed she had already left the state and had returned to the Midwest, eventually settling in Joliet, her hometown.
Ms. .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 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 might probably be probation and restitution.
She said she see did not know about the charges until she was already pop over to these guys out of Arizona, although she said she could not remember the exact time she left.
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 let them know the status changes of the case.
When The Herald-News called Staley-Ferry on Thursday, she said, while she cannot recall some of the details, she denies the charge.
“I am aware of that,†Staley-Ferry stated. “Obviously, that was many years ago.â€
She stated the criminal charges had been “misdirected†and that there was “nothing there†in regard to the charge.