Your Democratic candidate Lauren Staley Ferry has committed a felony and has not even taken 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 insight that Ferry had stolen a check from a former employer and made it out to herself. When caught she moved out of state and she went on to continue moving. When these issue was finally revealed, Ferry said she was sorry, although not to the victim, and there was no effort to pay off this debt, no attempt to remedy her wrongdoing, rather she apologized and publicly lamented how hard it was to be blasted with her own crimes.
This shows a lack of accountability for her own behavior aside from the way she might run the Will County clerks office, if she even can!
4 thoughts to consider before voting:
1. Ferry has perpetrated felony theft while the current Clerk's office has been clean of such corruption.
2. Ferry has not repaid her stolen gains to the victim.
3. Lauren may not even be bondable to be our clerk due to her felony embezzlementrecord.
4. Mike Madigan sent his team to support Ferry only showing this could bring more problems 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 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.
From the court documents, the charge alleged that, in July of 2002, Staley-Ferry stole a check from her place of employment 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 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, the spokesperson for the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office. By then, Staley-Ferry claimed she had already fled Arizona and was back in the Midwest, eventually going back to Joliet, her hometown.
Ms. .Jacinto said Staley-Ferry’s case predates the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office’s “records retention time,†but it seems Staley-Ferry was never incarcerated. Instead, Jacinto said, it appears Staley-Ferry was sent a summons to appear read the full info here in court, which she failed to do.
Also, Jacinto said, hop over to these guys sentencing on a forgery conviction would likely be restitution and probation.
Staley-Ferry said she did not know about the charges until she was already out of Arizona, although she said she could not recall the exact time 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 status changes in 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 Recommended Site the charge.
“I am aware of that,†Staley-Ferry said. “Obviously, that was many years ago.â€
She stated the particular charges had been “misdirected†and therefore there was “nothing there†in regard to the charge.