“I might have regret if it was one thing that I did,” stated Todd Chrisley at a press convention after being launched from jail. Donald Trump issued pardons this week for the previous actuality TV star and his spouse Julie, who had been convicted of fraud and tax evasion in 2022.
He later added, “I used to be convicted of one thing I didn’t do.”
The fact TV star and his spouse had been convicted of conspiring to defraud neighborhood banks within the Atlanta space as a strategy to get hold of greater than $36 million in private loans. Based on prosecutors, they spent the cash on luxurious automobiles, designer garments, actual property and journey, and used new fraudulently obtained loans to pay previous ones. Prosecutors stated that they did not file or pay taxes for the years 2013, 2014, 2015 or 2016. Todd Chrisley filed for chapter. He was sentenced to 12 years and his spouse to seven. Trump pardoned them each this week after pleas from their daughter, Savannah.
Curiously, given his new assertion, in 2022 Chrisley appeared to confess that he had taken cash and never paid it again.
“I at all times meant to pay it again,” he stated at at his sentencing.
Requested about his spouse’s reported assertion of regret in 2022, Chrisley indicated she lied in an effort to see her sentence diminished.
The previous Chrisley Is aware of Greatest star additionally teased a brand new present, saying, “We’re blessed to have our household again and we’re blessed to be coming again to tv as a result of we have now a a lot greater story to inform now.”
An untitled Lifetime venture introduced final week is ready to observe family members together with Savannah and Chase Chrisley, who’re government producers of the present.
The fact collection Chrisley Is aware of Greatest ran on USA Community from 2014 to 2023.
