Three months after publicly accusing outgoing Republican state Rep. Trevor Lee of offering to settle a personal debt by using his elected position to secure government contracts, Lee’s former employer told The Salt Lake Tribune that he’s been contacted by the Utah attorney general’s office as part of an investigation into the allegations.

Trent Spafford, the CEO of water filtration company Enevive, detailed his claims against the Layton representative in a video posted online in April. Since then, Spafford said an investigator with the attorney general’s office has interviewed both him and other Enevive employees “several times,” and has retrieved documents from the company.

And, in the intervening months, Lee lost his reelection bid in a GOP primary contest to Davis County Commissioner Bob Stevenson.

“I said, ‘Look, if news reporters call me, I am going to tell the truth. I’m not going to keep this quiet,’” Spafford said over the phone, recounting a conversation with the investigator. “He goes, ‘You don’t have to.’ But I will confirm 100% that there is a very robust investigation on Trevor Lee.”

In a statement to The Tribune, a spokesperson for Attorney General Derek Brown declined to confirm or deny that it was investigating Lee.

Lee told The Tribune on Friday that he has not been contacted by the attorney general’s office.

“There’s nothing there,” Lee said, adding, “and I’m not worried because I didn’t do anything wrong.”

According to Spafford, Lee owes Enevive nearly $100,000 in advance payments — a debt he allegedly promised to repay by “using his leverage” as a state lawmaker to ensure the company was given a government contract at Hill Air Force Base.

Spafford also accused Lee of simultaneously working for another water filtration company in a lawsuit filed in federal court last September. The complaint in the case alleged Lee used Enevieve’s client list and software to make sales calls for the competitor.

Court records show Enevive voluntarily dropped the lawsuit in April. Spafford said the case had become “too emotionally draining, and we would have never been compensated. We were into it $50,000.”

Lee’s 2025 conflict of interest disclosure lists Enevive as his “current employer,” and his 2026 disclosure filed in January says the company is his “previous employer.”

“Trent’s just a disgruntled former employer,” Lee said in an interview. “He’s upset that things didn’t go the way that he wanted, and he is trying to go after someone like myself because he knows I’m a public figure.”

A video of Spafford’s testimony on his experience with Lee was included on the website stoptrevorlee.com, which was published by former Republican U.S. Senate candidate and Moxie Pest Control CEO Jason Walton.

Lee also previously worked for Walton’s company in 2013 in North Carolina. In a separate video posted to the website, Walton accused Lee of manipulating a series of company checks made out to himself to increase their value, allegedly defrauding the business of approximately $3,100.

In April, Walton told The Tribune that he contacted the Raleigh Police Department upon learning of the allegations but ultimately decided not to press charges after an emotional conversation in which he pressed the now-lawmaker to admit to the actions.

Walton did not return a voicemail left Thursday evening asking whether he had been contacted by investigators.

After the businessmen posted the accusations, Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz, R-Hooper, said “we are carefully reviewing” the claims. Schultz later told FOX 13 News that he asked the attorney general’s office to investigate.

In an April statement, Lee called the allegations a “hit job.”

“I’m a registered Republican,” Spafford said. “I was a past delegate in the last election. So this was not a political hit job. If it were a political hit job, why would I sabotage my own party?”

Photos posted to Facebook in October 2024 show Lee traveling with Spafford and his wife to Prescott Valley, Arizona, for a rally supporting President Donald Trump.

“It was a huge relief that the attorney general is now pursuing him, but a bigger relief was getting him out of office,” Spafford said. “That, to me, is invaluable because he’s crooked.”