Well spotted Ann, so they have stopped using that bare-faced lie now, but it will have gone into the sub-conscious of the longterm JW,as will the WT pointing out that the trial judge was later exposed for unlawful behaviour, not that those facts are in fact relevant to Rutherford and Co's trial.
It is interesting methodology, tell a bare-faced lie to the rank and file for long enough, until you are forced to drop it, and the average JW still believes it !
For a religion that titles itself the "Truth" they do not seem to have a grasp of what Truth really is, or what irony is