A Shoe Company executive paid high school student-athletes to attend and play basketball at universities with teams that wear Shoe Company brand uniforms. The government alleges that the universities were victims of the federal crime of wire fraud. To prove its case of wire fraud against the Shoe Company executive, the government would need to prove that

• A. the Shoe Company executive had the intent to defraud the universities out of assets
• B. the student-athletes violated NCAA rules
• C. coaches at the universities knew about the payments
• D. all of the above