I know lots of people are hoping certain names will show up in the papers released. And, yeah, people lying about what they didn't know about him can be a thing. But here's one of the problems with junping to "How could you NOT know???"...
There are often situations in which people really don't know. I had to sit in her office and fake a smile while my high school guidance counselor tried to win points with me by telling me how she and her husband had
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been friends for years with my abuser. Because she didn't know. Even though they went to the same church until her family moved, their sons grew up together in Boy Scouts, her husband and the abuser belonged to the same Masonic Lodge at one time... And really, she didn't know. And that's just one example.
Many victims go through this. Swearing up and down that everyone closely connected to an abuser had to know comes too closer to accusing a victim of lying.