Rep. Trevor Lee resigns after Utah Attorney General’s office files felony charges over Layton mansion

Trevor Lee, one of the most prolific sponsors of anti-transgender and anti-LGBTQ bills in the Utah Legislature, is out of office. The Republican lawmaker resigned from the Utah House on Monday, effective immediately, hours after the Utah Attorney General’s Office charged him in 3rd District Court with fraud and forgery tied to the mortgage on his newly built Layton home.

Lee, 35, faces two second-degree felonies of communications fraud and mortgage fraud, and two third-degree felonies, forgery and possession of a forging device. The second-degree counts alone carry up to 15 years in prison and a $10,000 fine; the third-degree charges add up to five more years and a $5,000 fine.

More probable result, if Lee is convicted, is a suspended prison sentence paired with somewhere between 60 and 180 days of actual time in county jail, which could be served as work release or electronic monitoring rather than behind bars. He can also expect three to five years of intensive probation and a decade on the state’s White Collar Crime Offender Registry.

The fraud charges surround Lee’s newly constructed home at 1399 E 3250 N in Layton, which is 5,836 square feet, has eight bedrooms and five bathrooms, and sits on over a third of an acre of land. Redfin values it at $1,378,337.

Records show Lee closed on a $1 million conventional loan from Kind Lending LLC on Nov. 5, 2025, and a $75,000 revolving line of credit from America First Credit Union for the home. Prosecutors say the scramble to qualify for that seven-figure mortgage led Lee to fabricate income documents.

In May, two subcontractors told KSL they were still owed a combined $165,000 for work on the property. Lee pinned the dispute on his general contractor and eventually got a certificate of compliance from the state so the purchase could close.

According to the charging documents, a special agent with the Attorney General’s Office wrote that he was assigned to the case “regarding allegations of public corruption involving State of Utah Representative Trevor Alfred Lee.” The agent said he “was provided with two videos and screenshots of conversations relating to a prior check-fraud incident.”

One video featured Trent Spafford, CEO of Enevive. The charging document says Spafford “stated that Lee had requested cash advances totaling $93,000 to show increased income to assist in purchasing his home, and that Lee said he would make [the CEO] ‘whole’ by securing [his] company a government contract with Hill Air Force Base.”

When investigators pulled the loan paperwork, they found employment claims that didn’t line up. On one document, “Lee indicated he was the sales director of Blue Logic with a monthly salary of $15,833.” On another, “Lee indicated he worked for Enevive from July 15, 2024, through Oct. 9, 2025, for a monthly salary of $13,761.”

Neither company backed the paperwork up. Blue Logic told investigators it “had made Lee an offer that Lee never accepted, that Lee asked for the letter to help obtain a home loan, that Lee was a contract employee rather than a full-time employee, and that the letter was prepared to help Lee as a friend and was not accurate,” the charges state. Enevive’s response was blunter: the purported employment contract “was fraudulent and that his signature was forged.”

The charging document said, “Lee admitted during his interview that he personally forged [the CEO’s] signature on the Enevive contract in order to obtain the loan,” and, “Lee admitted that the Blue Logic offer letter was used to help show W-2 income and that he knew Blue Logic would never be able to pay the $190,000 salary stated in the offer.”

Prosecutors wrote that “Lee devised a scheme to obtain a $1 million home loan by false pretenses. To execute it, he communicated fraudulent documents to Kind Lending through the mortgage process — a forged Enevive employment contract, a loan application overstating his Enevive income, and a Blue Logic offer letter he knew misrepresented his employment.”

The documents also point to a direct contradiction between what Lee told his lender and what his own tax paperwork shows: “Lee made and used material misrepresentations of his employment and income. He submitted a forged Enevive employment contract reciting a $168,000 salary and reported Enevive income of $14,000 per month — income his own 2024 Enevive W-2 of $55,634.59 shows he was not earning. He submitted a Blue Logic offer letter he admitted did not reflect payable income.”

The charging documents summarized: “Based on the loan file and interviews, Lee submitted to Kind Lending, through the mortgage lending process, employment and income documents he knew to be false — including a forged Enevive employment contract, an inflated Enevive income figure contradicted by his own W-2, and a Blue Logic offer letter he knew did not reflect genuine employment or payable income — in order to obtain a $1 million loan.”

The criminal investigation grew out of accusations from Spafford, who posted on social media in April. Shortly after, a separate allegation from a former employer accused Lee of check fraud in 2013, back when he worked for a pest control company. The employer said he ultimately chose not to report it after Lee signed a written admission of guilt.

At the time, Lee admitted to the check fraud allegations, saying he had “behaved dishonestly” but that “that chapter is long closed, and I have spent every day since earning the trust of those I serve.” He denied the more recent allegations.

Lee sent his resignation letter to Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz, R-Hooper, not long after Monday’s charges were filed.

“Due to personal circumstances that require my attention, I no longer feel I can give my constituents the time, attention and service they deserve,” Lee wrote. “I will always be grateful for the people I have met, the relationships I have built and the opportunity I have had to serve the people of Utah.”

Schultz, who was a major donor to Lee’s reelection campaign, accepted it without much fanfare.

“I appreciate Rep. Lee’s service and accept his resignation,” he wrote in a statement.

Lee had held the House District 16 seat in Davis County since January 2023, though his time there was already numbered, as he lost a contested GOP primary back in June to Davis County Commissioner Bob Stevenson. The Davis County Republican Party will now set a special election to fill out what remains of the term.