the fraud and tax charges<\/a>. Until this Wednesday they still had years left on their sentences: Julie Chrisley was expected to be released in 2028, and Todd Chrisley in 2032.<\/p>\nAt trial prosecutors detailed a laundry list of offenses that started before they became famous.<\/p>\n
The Chrisleys and a former business partner submitted false documents to banks to obtain fraudulent loans and then used new loans to pay off the old ones, prosecutors said. The couple was accused of spending lavishly on cars, designer clothes, real estate and travel.<\/p>\n
Todd Chrisley filed for bankruptcy, walking away from more than $20 million in unpaid loans, according to prosecutors. Meanwhile, Julie Chrisley created false financial documents to rent a home in Los Angeles, they said, but then the couple did not pay rent on it.<\/p>\n
Once they were starring in the reality show, they operated a company that collected their income from the series and other ventures and kept the corporate bank accounts in Julie Chrisley\u2019s name to avoid collection of half a million dollars in back taxes that Todd Chrisley owed, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n
When the IRS asked for information on the accounts, they transferred ownership to Todd Chrisley\u2019s mother to try to hide his income further, according to authorities.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors also accused the couple of not filing or paying taxes for several years<\/p>\n
The Chrisleys\u2019 lawyers argued that an IRS officer gave false testimony at trial and that prosecutors lacked evidence to support convictions.<\/p>\n
A panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld their convictions last year.<\/p>\n
Savannah Chrisley has been a staunch Trump supporter and endorsed his candidacy while also speaking about her parents in a speech at the Republican National Convention last summer.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy family was persecuted by rogue prosecutors and Fulton County due to our public profile … and conservative beliefs,\u201d she said at the time.<\/p>\n
She has called the case against her parents politically motivated, though they were indicted in 2019 under a Trump-appointed U.S. attorney, Byung J. \u201cBJay\u201d Pak.<\/p>\n
In a social media post Wednesday, she praised U.S. Pardon Attorney Ed Martin, the Justice Department lawyer assigned to advise Trump on pardons and commutations.<\/p>\n
\u201cYour leadership is already changing countless lives \u2014 including mine,\u201d she said on the social platform X. \u201cThank you for standing boldly for truth, for justice, and for reuniting families like mine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Todd Chrisley was released from a minimum security prison camp in Pensacola, Florida, in the evening, according to Shannen Sharpe, a spokesperson for his attorney, and Julie Chrisley left a facility in Lexington, Kentucky, Sharpe said.<\/p>\n
As Savannah Chrisley waited to meet her father at his prison, she said the family was planning to do a lot of catching up.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to celebrate anniversaries, birthdays, Christmases, all the things,\u201d she said, \u201cbecause we\u2019re going to make up for the lost time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump said the celebrity couple had been \u201cgiven a pretty harsh treatment based on what I\u2019m hearing.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Constitution grants broad pardon powers to presidents, and their clemency actions cannot be undone by courts or other officials.<\/p>\n
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