Indictment: "He deliberately disregarded the truth"

This after Trumpler "was notified repeatedly that his claims were  untrue, often by people upon whom he relied for candid advice on important matters and who were best positioned to know the facts." As Popek comments, it is the legal doctrine known as conscious disregard or conscious avoidance aka willful blindness. As noted earlier it is aka willful ignorance, which can legally substitute for conscious intent and the indictment is making that case quite clearly and convincingly.  

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