The U.S. citizenship of a Ukrainian-born Nazi collaborator was revoked by a District Court in West Palm Beach yesterday. The ruling by Judge James Paine that Bohdan Koziy, a resident of Fort Lauderdale, lied about his Nazi activities when applying for admission to the U.S. and for naturalization, opens the way for deportation proceedings against him.
Koziy is accused of having killed at least 10 Jews and other civilians while he was employed by the Nazis as a policeman in the Ukraine during World War II. He also worked for the Nazis in Poland. He was tried last October on charges of gaining entry into the U.S. on false pretenses. Paine wrote in his decision that the accused “lacked the moral character required for citizenship.”
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