Malfeasance in office

Those are very different factual situations, and And today, the criminal case against him concluded with a guilty plea to malfeasance, not with a conviction for knowingly facilitating 10 escapes.

So if you plead to malfeasance, that's what I'm trying to figure out.

Is that saying I did it, but I didn't know I was doing it? Malfeasance has a long...

And it can mean a whole bunch of other stuff as well.

Well, you know, malfeasance is intentional.

There's a very important distinction.

Negligence means someone fails to exercise reasonable care.

Malfeasance typically requires knowing or intentional misconduct.