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Former businessman Marc Sessions Jenson made false claims in a Board of Pardons petition to win his release from prison and has never paid the $4.1 million in restitution he owed in a 2005 criminal case.

That's the contention of the Utah Attorney General's Office in a memo submitted to state parole officials earlier this month.

"In short, Mr. Jenson still owes the full amount," the memo states.

The 30-page document is a response to a request for information from the board, which released Jenson from prison in October after he challenged his 2011 incarceration for failing to comply with the terms of a plea agreement.

The board is slated for a hearing on the matter in January, the agency's spokesman Greg Johnson said Wednesday.

Jenson's attorneys could not be reached for comment Thursday. They have long held that Jenson was unfairly prosecuted by then-Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, who they say tried to shake down Jenson for money.

In 2013, Jenson became a key player in the bribery and public corruption investigation that left Shurtleff and his successor, John Swallow, charged with multiple felonies. Both have pleaded not guilty to the charges and have trial dates set for 2016.

Jenson pleaded no contest to three third-degree felony counts of sale of unregistered securities in 2008 — a deal, he contends, that was negotiated directly with Shurtleff.

The agreement included restitution payments that Jenson owed to three former business associates.

But Jenson claims those debts had been resolved through other lawsuits or agreements, most inked well-before 2008. His petition offered the board financial statements and court papers as proof.

But that assertion contradicts statements Jenson made in court in November 2011, when a judge was poised to send him to prison, the attorney general's office memo says.

Court transcripts show Jenson did not argue that his debts had been paid; rather, he made apologies to his victims for not securing the funds and said through his attorneys that he was "very motivated to pay," the memo states.

It was on that basis that a 3rd District Court judge found that Jenson had violated the plea agreement, sentenced him to a 10-year prison sentence and ordered the restitution — an order that, at the time, Jenson did not dispute.

"That sentence is still in full force," the attorney general's office memo states.

The state argues that even if Jenson's debts had been settled through other agreements or lawsuits, which the state believes are invalid, nothing in state law prevents the attorney general's office or a state judge from seeking and/or ordering restitution as part of his criminal prosecution.

The state memo also said the financial documents Jenson offered as proof of nearly $2 million in restitution payments don't support his claims.

In fact, a review of the records by Laural Spenser, a forensic accountant who works for the attorney general's office, found nothing to tie individual transactions to assigned restitution interests.