The U.S. Justice Department is seeking to deport a New York man for concealing his Nazi past. The department’s Nazi-hunting Office of Special Investigations filed a complaint in a Brooklyn federal court Thursday alleging that Jaroslaw Bilaniuk, 79, from the borough of Queens, persecuted Jews while serving as an armed guard at a slave-labor camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
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