AREA BRIEFS

Ex-Chicagoan Accused of Nazi Service A retired shipping clerk from Chicago was accused Friday of servingin a Nazi German SS unit that took part in the forced labor of Jewsin Poland during World War II. Wasyl Lytwyn, 73, left the UnitedStates last fall under an agreement with the Office of SpecialInvestigations, the Justice Department unit that has tracked moreformer Nazis to the Chicago area than any other city in the UnitedStates. The government formally moved on Friday to strip Lytwyn ofhis U.S. citizenship, which he obtained last year. He immigrated tothe United States in 1957. In federal court documents, Lytwynadmitted he was in the SS unit at a training and base camp atTrawniki, Poland, and the SS Streibel Battalion that succeeded itfrom 1943 to 1945. That unit seized thousands of Polish civiliansand forced them into slave labor. Celozzi Son Guilty in Money Sting Joseph M. Celozzi, son of one of the pricipals of Celozzi-EttlesonChevrolet, has pleaded guilty in federal court to charges stemmingfrom an FBI money-laundering sting. A former service manager atCelozzi-Ettleson Chevrolet in Elmhurst, Celozzi admitted he engagedin a scheme in which more than $200,000 in automobiles, including aCorvette, a Blazer and three Cadillacs, were sold for cash to anundercover FBI agent posing as a bookmaker and narcotics dealer.Celozzi, 34, failed to file proper currency transaction reports. Heis scheduled to be sentenced on April 18 and faces 21 to 27 months inprison. Joliet Nursing Home Fined A Joliet home for the developmentally disabled has been fined$10,000 for failing to supervise a 33-year-old resident who choked todeath last May. The man had a history of stealing food and chokingbehavior, according to the Illinois Department of Public Aid. Hisbody was found in the food pantry at Trinity Living Center, 3302Horseshoe Lane.