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Todd & Julie Chrisley SENTENCED successful Tax Fraud Case
Todd and Julie Chrisley are facing the commencement of their respective convictions.
After the Chrisley Knows Best stars were sentenced to aggregate years successful national situation for tax fraud, some Todd and Julie reported to their respective situation locations connected Jan. 17 to statesman serving their time, E! News has learned.
Todd has reported to Federal Correctional Institution (FPI) Pensacola successful Florida, portion Julie began her condemnation astatine a antithetic national situation successful Lexington, Kentucky.
Following the couple's federal indictment in August 2019, some Todd and Julie pleaded not blameworthy to 12 counts, including ligament fraud and conspiracy to perpetrate slope fraud. However, successful June, the brace were recovered blameworthy by an Atlanta federal jury connected each counts. Five months later, Todd was sentenced to 12 years behind bars, with Julie sentenced to service seven.
"Over the people of a decade, the defendants defrauded banks retired of tens of millions of dollars portion evading outgo of their national income taxes," U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Buchanan told E! News successful a Nov. 21 statement. "Their lengthy sentences bespeak the magnitude of their transgression strategy and should service arsenic a informing to others tempted to exploit our nation's assemblage banking strategy for unlawful idiosyncratic gain."
The family's attorney, Alex Little of Burr & Forman LLP, said that the sentencing proved to beryllium a "difficult day" for the Chrisleys.
"But Todd and Julie are radical of faith," helium told E! News successful a Nov. 22 statement. "And that religion gives them spot arsenic they entreaty their convictions."
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After quality broke of the pair's convictions, some Julie and Todd received support from different nationalist figures, including The Voice alum Raelynn, who called the mates "some of the astir astonishing and giving radical I person ever met."
"To spot the results of today is perfectly DISGUSTING," she wrote successful a Nov. 21 Instagram Stories post. "The lies and misinformation that person been dispersed astir this lawsuit and this household are uncanny."
Additionally, the state singer said that she hopes the tribunal strategy starts "actually sentencing radical who perpetrate crimes. NOT GOOD PEOPLE WHO HELP AND LOVE PEOPLE."
But the 28-year-old wasn't the only one who spoke retired to support the couple, with Todd and Julie's constitution creator Paige Szupello besides sending emotion to the household publicly.
"The Chrisley household are 1 of my life's implicit biggest blessings," she wrote connected Instagram Stories Nov. 21. "They are radical conscionable similar us. I wouldn't privation what why're going done connected my worst enemy, and to person to spell done each of this successful the spotlight, I can't adjacent comprehend. This is simply a family. The astir unthinkable household who marque our satellite a amended place."
Todd shares girl Lindsie, 33, and Kyle, 31, with ex Teresa Terry. The Chrisleys Knows Best prima is besides dada to son Chase, 26, girl Savannah, 25, and lad Grayson, 16, with Julie.
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Ahead of their convictions, the mates antecedently thanked fans for the outpouring of good wishes they person received.
"We did privation to travel connected contiguous and fto everyone cognize that it's a precise sad, heartbreaking clip for our household close now," Todd said during the June 16 occurrence of their Chrisley Confessions podcast. "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."
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