Your Democratic candidate Lauren Staley-Ferry committed a federal crime and has not even taken the time to pay back the small business 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 forged his signature. When caught she fled the scene of the crime and she went on to continue moving. When these issue was brought to light, Ferry said she was sorry, although not to the victim, and there was no attempt to pay off this debt, no intention to fix her wrongdoing, rather she apologized and openly talked about how hard it was to be confronted with her own blunders.
This shows a lack of accountability for her own actions much less just how she may run the county clerks office, if she even can!
4 things to think about before voting:
1. Lauren has perpetrated felony forgery and our current Clerk's office has been without corruption.
2. Lauren did not repaid her stolen gains to the victim.
3. Ferry might not be bondable to be the clerk due to her felony criminalrecord.
4. Mike Madigan dispatched his team to support Ferry only demonstrating this could bring more problems for Will County
More 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 removed 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 this without the knowledge or permission of her employer.
A 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 that website link time, Staley-Ferry claimed she had already left Arizona and was back in the Midwest, eventually settling in Joliet, her hometown.
.Jacinto said Staley-Ferry’s case predates 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 was already out of Arizona, although she said she Read Full Article could not remember the exact time she departed.
The criminal charges were dismissed in 2012, as specified in the court papers. Jacinto said, in March of 2012, the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office called Independent Capital Group to let them know the status changes in the case.
The Herald-News called Staley-Ferry on Thursday, she said, while she did not remember some of the you could try here details, she rejects the charge.
“I am conscious of that,†Staley-Ferry stated. “Obviously, that was many years ago.â€
Lauren said the charges was “misdirected†and therefore there was “nothing there†in regard to the charges.