The Democrat nominee Lauren Staley Ferry has committed a federal crime and has not even taken the time to return to the organization she had stolen 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 apologized, although not to the victim, and there was no effort to pay off this debt, no attempt to remedy her wrong, rather she apologized and publicly lamented how hard it was to be confronted with her own blunders.
This shows a lack of accountability for her own behavior much less the way she may run the county clerks office, if she is able to!
4 thoughts to consider before voting:
1. Ferry has committed felony forgery and our current County Clerk's office continues to be without corruption.
2. Lauren did not pay back her debt to her former boss.
3. Ferry might not even be bondable to be our clerk because of her felony criminalrecord.
4. Mike Madigan dispatched his team to back up Ferry only showing this might lead to more issues for Will County
More news.
A Will County 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, additional resources 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 place of address 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 in court, which she failed to do.
Also, Jacinto said, website link 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 did not recall the exact time she left.
The 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 some of the details, she denies the charge.
“I am alerted to that,†Staley-Ferry stated. “Obviously, which was in the past.â€
She stated the particular criminal charges was “misdirected†and that there was “nothing there†regarding the charges.