Kane Co., Ill. (ECWd) –
Shaw Local has reported that Kane County State’s Attorney Jamie Mosser has thrown her hat in the ring for an appointment to a vacant judicial seat after the retirement of Judge Kevin Busch at the end of January 2026.
According to Shaw Local, Mosser wrote that her focus will always be on “keeping our communities safe” . . . and we wonder why that wasn’t her focus a few years ago when her office acquiesced to a Kane County judge who failed miserably in protecting the public in the case of Nathan Sweeney, the Commercial Driver’s License holder who should have never been permitted behind the wheel again, and ended up killing a DeKalb County Deputy a few months after pleading guilty in Kane County for crimes that should have had his CDL revoked for life had it not been for the Kane County Prosecutor and Kane County Judge.
We first wrote about Sweeney in the article entitled “Three Accident(s), DUI, Drugs, Prosecution Failures, Violation of Federal CDL Law, Death of Deputy –” detailing how federal laws were violated in the prosecution of this case by permitting without objection the plea deals, and deferred prosecution of crimes that should have revoked his CDL for life – which then resulted in a deputy’s death by this same driver.
Twenty days after our article was published, the Illinois Secretary of State sent a letter to the United States Department of Transportation alleging that Kane County’s violation of federal CDL Masking laws likely resulted in the death of a DeKalb County Deputy. In this letter the SOS stated that “His CDL would have been disqualified for life” if federal CDL Masking laws were followed.
The following day, in an email dated November 26, 2024, the USDOT-FMCSA included in its Annual Performance Report (“APR”) a “finding of masking” as a means of putting Kane County on notice.
In June 2025, Kane County admitted to “mistakes” while claiming the prosecutors “didn’t think they could obtain copies of squad videos” and apparently blaming opioid manufacturers (when Sweeney was caught with heroin) and suggesting Sweeney “was a statistic of their actions.”
Sweeney was found guilty in DeKalb County this year of aggravated DUI resulting in death and sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Anyone can submit written public comments by 4 pm on January 9, 2026, in favor or against Mosser’s appointment. Comments cannot be anonymous and may be emailed to Stacie Ryan at [email protected].
