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Closing Arguments Wrap as Jury Deliberation Awaits in Compex College Basketball Trial

NEW YORK — Simplicity. After more than two weeks of testimony that included dissections of an apparel company’s corporate hierarchy and invoices, tales of hotel-room and parking-lot cash drops and lavish expense accounts, and a slew of Rorschach-like text messages and wiretap transcripts from which both intent and subtext was attempted to be extracted, all of which culminated in some six hours of closing arguments spanning two days—after all of that, simplicity is what the prosecution hopes rules the day in the federal fraud case against two Adidas employees and an aspiring player agent that has been playing out in the U.