A San Diego plaintiff attorney wound up his 2½ week resume padding trial against JAMS Inc. and neutral Sheila Sonenshine by comparing them to one of modern history’s most famous liars.

By presenting a failed investment fund as a grand business accomplishment, JAMS and Sonenshine follow “the exact same fact pattern” as Rosie Ruiz, the woman who ran the last mile of the 1980 Boston Marathon and then claimed to have won it, plaintiff attorney Bryan Vess told a jury in closing argument Wednesday.

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