Jeremy David Johnson entered the plea Thursday in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City. If convicted, he faces a 20-year prison term.
Prosecutors say Johnson's company, iWorks, sent software to consumers for a supposedly risk-free trial, but then billed them anyway. Authorities have said that victims of iWorks and dozens of related shell companies included individual consumers and merchant banks.
The single criminal charge parallels a civil complaint filed in Las Vegas by the Federal Trade Commission last December.
Johnson has denied those allegations as well
Assistant U.S. Attorney Brent Ward on Thursday told a federal magistrate he anticipates filing additional criminal charges against Johnson, based on information being culled from the 'hundreds of thousands of documents' from the FTC case.
After the hearing, defense attorney Nathan Crane said he doesn't believe Johnson has done anything wrong."
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