Today the Justice Department announced that the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York revoked the naturalized U.S. citizenship of Michael Pizzuti, a native of Italy, after finding that he had illegally procured his citizenship. The court determined that Pizzuti had committed crimes involving moral turpitude and unlawful acts and had given false testimony about those crimes during his naturalization proceedings, all of which prevented him from establishing the good moral character necessary to naturalize. The court additionally found that Pizzuti obtained his naturalization through fraudulent concealment and willful misrepresentations of material fact relating to his crimes.
