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Todd Chrisley

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  /   2025–Present

Record at a Glance

Clemency type
Pardon
Presidential term
2025–Present
Federal district
Northern Georgia
Offense
Conspiracy to commit bank fraud; bank fraud (five counts); conspiracy to defraud the U.S. to obstruct and impede the Internal Revenue Laws; tax evasion
Sentence
144 months' imprisonment; three years' supervised release; $17,270,741.57 restitution (November 21, 2022)
Current status
Released from FPC Pensacola on May 28, 2025 following the pardon. A later 2026 malpractice lawsuit is a separate civil matter, not a criminal proceeding.

Original Case

Todd Chrisley, a real-estate entrepreneur known for the reality series Chrisley Knows Best, was prosecuted with his wife, Julie, and their accountant in federal court in Atlanta. Prosecutors said Todd and Julie Chrisley used false bank statements, audit reports, and personal financial statements to obtain more than $36 million in loans from community banks. The government said the couple spent the proceeds on cars, designer clothing, real estate, and travel, used later loans to repay earlier ones, and left more than $20 million unpaid when Todd filed for bankruptcy. The tax case concerned millions of dollars in television income, delinquent federal taxes, corporate accounts kept in Julie's name, and failures to file returns or pay taxes from 2013 through 2016. A jury convicted Todd in June 2022 of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit tax evasion. He received 144 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and restitution. The Eleventh Circuit left the convictions in place; its limited remand concerned sentencing findings rather than the validity of the verdicts.

Clemency

Trump granted Chrisley a full and unconditional pardon on May 28, 2025, covering Northern District of Georgia case No. 1:19-cr-297. He was released from FPC Pensacola the same day. The pardon ended the federal punishment but was not a judicial acquittal.

Trump Connection

Trump said he did not know Todd or Julie Chrisley personally, although the White House confirmed that he had met their daughter Savannah. Savannah became a visible Trump supporter while campaigning for her parents' release: she endorsed Trump at the 2024 Republican National Convention and publicly described the prosecution as politically motivated. Alice Marie Johnson, Trump's clemency adviser and later Pardon Czar, brought the Chrisleys' case to the president. Trump then called Savannah and her brother Grayson from the Oval Office to announce that he intended to pardon their parents. He said the couple had been treated harshly based on what he had heard, while a White House spokesperson characterized their sentences as excessively severe. The record documents family advocacy, Savannah's political support, access through Johnson, and direct White House contact, but not a prior personal relationship between Trump and Todd Chrisley.

Since Clemency

  • 2026-06-05 · civil lawsuit

    The Chrisleys sued their former lawyer and his firm, seeking $25 million and alleging malpractice in the criminal representation.

    Legal Status: Claims made by the plaintiffs; not judicial findings or a new criminal charge.

  • 2026-08-19 · reported federal tax lien

    Us Magazine reported on October 15, citing records it said it reviewed, that the IRS filed a $1,571,452 tax lien against Todd and Julie Chrisley in Davidson County, Tennessee, on August 19, covering assessments for 2021 and 2022.

    Legal Status: Reported tax-collection filing, not a new criminal charge or conviction. The original lien and any subsequent payment, release, or challenge were not independently verified in this review.

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