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A judge on Monday sentenced a telemarketer linked to the corruption scandal that embroiled former Utah Attorney General John Swallow to probation for failing to follow a cease and desist order from state consumer protection officials.

Aaron Vincent Christner pleaded guilty to two class A misdemeanor counts of attempted violation of the order in October.

As part of his plea deal, Salt Lake County prosecutors, who had reduced the counts from third-degree felonies, recommended Christner spend no time in jail.

On Monday, 3rd District Judge Paul Parker followed the terms of the deal, ordering suspended jail terms of one year for each count, and placing Christner on supervised probation for three years.

Included in the terms of Christner's probation, he is barred from telemarketing or any operating any other business regulated by the Utah Division of Consumer Protection.

Christner shook his head as Parker handed down the sentence and muttering his frustration as he stormed out of the courtroom.

"You really want to storm out of here like that?" Parker said, calling Christner back.

Christner apologized and said he didn't mean to be disrespectful.

"I'm just very upset and frustrated," he said.

The case stems from allegations that Christner, 37, and his business partner, Ryan Scott Jensen, continued to operate a pair of telemarketing businesses — K-Street Advertising and One Touch Media — despite being ordered to cease operations by the Utah Division of Consumer Protection.

The companies were being run without a permit and the pair had been previously cited for violations, including for misrepresentations to customers, some of whom spent thousands on "coaching" software to aid them in setting up online businesses.

Jensen also pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors in October and was sentenced to probation.

In 2012, Christner phoned Swallow, then a candidate for attorney general, seeking help in overturning a $400,000 judgment that accompanied the consumer protection division's citations.

Christner recorded the call, which included Swallow's statement that he planned to move the consumer protection office out of the Department of Commerce and make it part of the attorney general's office once he was elected. Swallow also suggested arranging a meeting between Christner and then-Attorney General Mark Shurtleff.

The call later was the subject of a Utah State Bar complaint against Swallow by a former consumer protection division employee, who argued that it was wrong for Swallow to converse with the subject of a state legal action involving the attorney general's office — since that office also represents the division.

The complaint was dismissed.

In July, Swallow entered not guilty pleas to 14 felony and misdemeanor charges in connection with a bribery and corruption scandal stemming from his time in the attorney general's office.

The allegations include counts of money laundering, misuse of public funds, obstruction of justice and falsifying government records.

If convicted, Swallow could spend up to 30 years in prison.