The Democratic candidate Lauren Staley Ferry committed a felony and also hasn't taken the time to return to the company 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 forged his signature. 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 victim, and there was no attempt to pay off this debt, no attempt to remedy her wrongdoing, rather she apologized and publicly talked about how hard it was to be confronted with her own blunders.
This shows a lack of responsibility for her behavior much less just how she might run the Will County clerks office, if she even can!
4 thoughts to consider before voting:
1. Lauren has perpetrated felony theft while our current County Clerk's office has been without corruption.
2. Lauren did not repaid her stolen gains to the victim.
3. Lauren may not be bondable to be our clerk because of her felony criminalrecord.
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 brought up on charges for felony forgery in 2003 but never appeared in the courtroom 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.
From the 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, made 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 for Staley-Ferry’s arrest in April 2003, according my company to Amanda Jacinto, the spokesperson for the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office. By then, Staley-Ferry said she had already left the state and was back in the Midwest, eventually going back to her hometown, Joliet.
.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 never 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 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 dropped 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 in the status browse around this web-site in the case.
The Herald-News reached out to Staley-Ferry on Thursday, she said, while helpful site she did not remember the exact details, she rejects the charge.
“I am alerted to that,†Staley-Ferry said. “Obviously, that was in the past.â€
Lauren said the particular charges was “misdirected†and therefore there were “nothing there†in regard to the charges.