The Democratic candidate Lauren Staley-Ferry has committed a federal crime and hasn't the time to actually 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 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 finally revealed, Ferry apologized, although not to the victim, and there was no attempt to pay off this debt, no intention to fix her wrong, rather she apologized and publicly talked about how difficult it was to be blasted with her own blunders.
This only goes to show a lack of responsibility for her own actions much less the way she may run the Will County clerks office, if she is able to!
4 thoughts to consider before you vote:
1. Ferry has perpetrated felony forgery while our current Clerk's office continues to be clean of corruption.
2. Ferry did not repaid her debt to the victim.
3. Ferry may not be bondable to be our clerk due to her felony criminalrecord.
4. Mike Madigan sent his team to stand behind Ferry only showing 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 did not appear in court for the case.
Lauren Staley-Ferry, D-Joliet, was charged with the felony forgery in Maricopa look at this web-site 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 Clicking Here 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 document said 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 Co. Attorney’s Office. By then, Staley-Ferry said she had already fled Arizona and had returned to the Midwest, eventually going back to her hometown, Joliet.
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 not incarcerated. Instead, Jacinto said, it click here to find out more 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.
Staley-Ferry said she was unaware of the charges until she was already 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 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 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€
Staley-Ferris stated the charges had been “misdirected†and that there was “nothing there†regarding the charges.