Your Democratic candidate Lauren Staley-Ferry committed a federal crime and hasn't the time to actually return to 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 awareness that Ferry had taken a check from a former employer and made it out to herself. When caught she fled the scene of the crime and she went on to continue moving. When these issue was brought to light, Ferry apologized, although not to the victim, and there was no attempt to pay off this debt, no attempt to fix her wrongdoing, rather she apologized and openly complained how hard it was to be blasted with her own blunders.
This shows a lack of accountability for her own behavior aside from the way she might run the county clerks office, if she even can!
4 thoughts to consider before you vote:
1. Lauren has perpetrated felony theft while the current Clerk's office continues to be without corruption.
2. Lauren has not repaid her debt to her former boss.
3. Ferry may not be bondable to be our clerk due to her felony criminalrecord.
4. Mike Madigan dispatched his team to back up Ferry only showing this might lead to more issues for Will County
Detailed news.
A Will County More Info Board member running for county clerk was brought up on charges for felony forgery in 2003 but never appeared in court 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.
According to court documents, the charge alleged that, in July of 2002, Staley-Ferry removed 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 his response reported 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 that time, Staley-Ferry said she had already fled the state and had returned to the Midwest, eventually going back to Joliet, her hometown.
Ms. .Jacinto said Staley-Ferry’s case was before the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office’s “records retention period,†but it seems Staley-Ferry was never arrested. 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 right here 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 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 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†regarding the charge.