SPRINGFIELD - Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias has urged the U.S. Department of Transportation to investigate Kane County over allegations of “masking” a DUI conviction. The practice, which conceals such convictions on commercial driver records, allegedly allowed Nathan Sweeney, a semi-truck driver, to remain on the road despite a 2020 guilty plea for DUI and drug charges. Sweeney later caused a crash that killed DeKalb County Sheriff’s Deputy Christina Musil. While the county prosecutor claims the plea prioritized a felony drug charge, Giannoulias’s office says the DUI conviction was improperly withheld from state records, raising concerns about broader safety implications.
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