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Todd Chrisley & Wife Julie Break Their Silence After Fraud Conviction
The judgment is successful for Todd and Julie Chrisley.
Following the Chrisley Knows Best stars' fraud convictions successful June, a justice sentenced them to aggregate years successful situation connected Nov. 21.
Todd was sentenced to 12 years down bars, with Julie getting a seven-year stay, the U.S. Attorney's Office tells NBC News.
After being federally indicted successful Aug. 2019, the mates was found guilty by an Atlanta deferral assemblage connected 12 counts—including ligament fraud and conspiracy to perpetrate slope fraud—on June 7, though they pleaded not guilty.
Following the tribunal determination earlier this summer, Todd's lawyer Bruce Morris told E! News the mates plans to entreaty the case.
However, Kate Mangels—an lawyer unaffiliated with the case—noted to E! News that there's "a precise debased percent of appeals that get granted."
Kate—an subordinate lawyer astatine Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump Holley LLP—continued, "There's truthful overmuch grounds brought that adjacent if possibly 1 portion of grounds was improperly brought oregon 1 witnesser was excluded, an appeals tribunal could inactive accidental astatine the extremity of the time that wasn't important and that wasn't prejudicial truthful adjacent though we find an error, we're not going to overturn and we're not going to bash a caller trial."
Todd and Julie reacted to the blameworthy verdict connected the June 16 occurrence of their Chrisley Confessions podcast, and thanked fans for their enactment amid their ineligible troubles.
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"We did privation to travel connected contiguous and fto everyone cognize that it's a precise sad, heartbreaking clip for our household close now," said Todd. "We inactive clasp steadfast successful our religion and we spot that God volition bash what helium does champion due to the fact that God's a occurrence worker. That's what we're holding retired for."
E! News has reached retired to their lawyer for remark connected the sentencing but hasn't heard back.
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