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The public corruption trial of former Utah Attorney General John Swallow is expected to resume for its second week on Tuesday, with testimony from an embattled St. George businessman whose criminal prosecution turned the spotlight of suspicion on the former attorney general.

Jeremy Johnson is expected to testify sometime this week about his relationship with Swallow, including telling a 3rd District Court jury he allowed Swallow use his million-dollar houseboat at Lake Powell. Johnson also will say that he used Swallow's connections to make a $250,000 bid to solicit help from Nevada's former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid to thwart a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigation of Johnson's online-marketing company.

Johnson first went public with his stories about Swallow in 2013, when he sought immunity for the former GOP officeholder as part of plea negotiations in a federal criminal case.

The deal backfired and Johnson went public with allegations about his dealings with Swallow. That triggered the flood of inquiries into Swallow that forced his resignation and finally resulted in criminal charges in 2014.

Johnson was convicted of federal bank charges in 2016 and is being brought to Utah from a federal prison in California to testify.

Swallow has pleaded not guilty to 12 felonies and one misdemeanor, including counts of racketeering, bribery, accepting a prohibited gift, evidence tampering and obstruction of justice.

If convicted, he could spend up to 30 years in prison, though such a long sentence is unlikely.

A jury of 12 is hearing the case; four are alternates.

The trial is scheduled for 16 days, but is already moving more slowly than the court anticipated. A schedule for witness testimony filed with the court by the Salt Lake County district attorney's office shows prosecutors had intended to call as many as 16 witnesses in the first four days of the proceedings.

As of Friday, only five had been called.

One of the five, Paul Nelson, is expected to take the stand again on Tuesday for further cross-examination from Swallow's attorney Scott C. Williams.

Nelson is a longtime friend and onetime employee of Marc Sessions Jenson, who was the first witnesses to take the stand a week ago.

Nelson's testimony appeared to support Jenson's allegations that he had been extorted over several years by Swallow, his predecessor Mark Shurtleff and Shurtleff's so-called "fixer" Tim Lawson, for money and travel junkets to the lavish southern California resort Pelican Hill.

Nelson on Friday told the jury that he thought Lawson was a "scam artist." And Nelson admitted to being angry over the payments Jenson was making for what seemed like no return.

"We wrote 'consultant' on the checks, because we did not have a category called scamming," Nelson said, explaining the record-keeping for money that went to Lawson.

Under cross-examination by Williams, Nelson also testified to the efforts he made to help Jenson, whom he believed was being wrongly prosecuted. That included talking to Shurtleff, whom he'd met through GOP politics.

Nelson said he offered to help Shurtleff politically if he would take a second-look at Jenson's case. That made Nelson the target of an FBI bribery investigation and a sting operation, that saw Shurtleff working as a confidential informant. No charges were brought against Nelson.

Nelson said Swallow also offered to help Jenson with his criminal case, but was really seeking legal work to bolster his income.

Nelson also testified that he saw Swallow twice at Pelican Hill in the summer of 2009. By then, Nelson said, it was common knowledge that Swallow intended to run for attorney general.