{"id":25397,"date":"2016-07-18T18:56:45","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T01:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=25397"},"modified":"2016-07-18T18:56:45","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T01:56:45","slug":"former-bosnian-army-prison-plead-guilty-fraudulently-getting-u-s-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=25397","title":{"rendered":"Former Bosnian Army Prison Plead Guilty to Fraudulently Getting a U.S. Citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>FLORIDA<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14523 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Courtroom-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"Courtroom\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" \/>A Jacksonville, Florida, man plead guilty Monday for unlawfully procuring U.S. citizenship by failing to disclose during his naturalization process his membership in the Bosnian Army and crimes that he committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian Conflict in the 1990s, according to officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Slobo Maric<\/strong>, 56, plead guilty in federal court.\u00a0 Sentencing has not yet been scheduled, officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">According to the plea agreement, in 1993, Maric served as a shift leader, the second in command to the warden, of a detention facility in Bosnia that housed captured Bosnian-Croat soldiers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Many of the guards in the facility routinely subjected detainees to serious physical abuse and humiliation, including by referring to them with ethnic slurs and spitting on them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span 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