Overview
- Dodge County Sheriff Dale Schmidt filed a federal defamation lawsuit seeking $1 million from Sundas “Sunny” Naqvi and Cook County Commissioner Kevin Morrison.
- He presented surveillance timestamps showing Naqvi entered O’Hare secondary screening at 10:46 a.m. and exited to the public area at 11:42 a.m., not after 30 hours.
- The lawsuit details hotel and travel records that place Naqvi at a Rosemont hotel from March 5 to March 8 and later in Slinger and Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, early March 7.
- DHS had already posted the O’Hare surveillance times, and the Cook County sheriff’s office said a search found no record of Naqvi at ICE’s Broadview facility.
- At his news conference, Schmidt said cellphone pings that appeared to place Naqvi inside the Dodge County Jail were likely spoofed and he referred the matter to the FBI and Illinois State Police.