Overview

• A Brooklyn federal court sentenced Svetlana Dali to time served on July 10 after a jury convicted her in May of stowing away on a Delta flight from New York to Paris.
• Dali will remain in custody pending extradition to Connecticut, where she faces felony charges over a separate security breach at Bradley International Airport.
• If convicted in Connecticut, she could face up to five years in prison under state felony statutes.
• At her sentencing hearing, Dali testified that she believed unknown actors were poisoning her, a claim linked to her defense’s requests for mental health evaluation.
• Federal agencies and airlines have launched joint reviews of boarding pass verification and gate-access procedures to address vulnerabilities exposed by Dali’s repeat breaches.