Judge Casey, in refusing to overturn the seizure order and also unsealing the proceedings, wrote, "The court cannot fathom how billions of Sobinbank's dollars could have been transferred out of its constantly replenished B.O.N.Y. account, to accounts in the United States, without Sobinbank's knowledge or willful blindness to the scheme".
Whether Jean Racine's Jansenist upbringing determined his view of a human nature controlled by perverse and willful passions or whether his knowledge of Greek tragedy explains the fatalism of his own plays is a question that cannot be answered.
Gary Osen, a lawyer who in 2014 convinced a Brooklyn, New York jury to hold Jordan's Arab Bank Plc liable for handling transactions for Palestinian militant group Hamas, said there is "no question" the Anti-Terrorism Act covers Fields' case, but showing "knowledge or willful blindness" may be tough.
But this lack of knowledge is really willful ignorance as much as anything else.
But the burden falls on you to prove that you are an innocent owner by showing that the act giving rise to the forfeiture was done without your knowledge, consent, or willful blindness".
Is Wills's blindness willful?
Or, people will have a willful ignorance to it.
How can such willful ignorance thrive in today's seas of knowledge?
The trustee claimed that Koufax, who invested with Madoff because of his friendship with Wilpon, lacks knowledge of Wilpon and Katz's so-called willful blindness and is irrelevant to the case.
Ms. Heffernan's final salvo is a hopeful one: the idea that willful blindness, as "a product of a rich mix of experience, knowledge, thinking, neurons, and neuroses, is what gives us the capacity to change it".
