It was willful blindness. Willful blindness is a legal concept which means, if there's information that you could know and you should know but you somehow manage not to know, the law deems that you're willfully blind.
Esto no era ignorancia. Era ceguera voluntaria. La ceguera voluntaria es un concepto legal que significa, que si hay información que podrían y deberían saber pero que de alguna manera logran no saber, la ley considera que hay ceguera voluntaria.