GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — Texas lawyer Mikal Watts and six other people each had plenty of opportunity to know they had a fake client list and were pursuing bogus claims after 2010′s Gulf of Mexico oil spill, prosecutors told Mississippi jurors Wednesday in closing arguments.

Watts himself and lawyers for the six others though said the government had failed to prove criminal intent to defraud, blaming fellow defendants or saying the government was misconstruing innocent actions.