United States v. Roberto Puente, Jr.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “a defendant who 499 Cite as 27 I&N Dec. 496 (BIA 2018) Interim Decision #3948 deliberately avoids reading the form he is signing cannot avoid criminal sanctions for any false statements contained therein”
• \ 'Reckless indifference' has been held sufficient to satisfy § 1001's scienter requirement so that a defendant who deliberately avoids learning the truth cannot circumvent criminal sanctions.\
• “The statement may still be material ‘even if it is ignored or never read by the agency receiving the misstatement.’ ”
• \ 'Reckless indifference' has been held sufficient to satisfy § 1001's scienter requirement so that a defendant who deliberately avoids learning the truth cannot circumvent criminal sanctions.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).