Todd and Julie Chrisley of ‘Chrisley Knows Best’ sentenced to prison for fraud
The two are also ordered to pay back $21,912 to the victims of their crime, and their crimes and losses will be added to their state prison sentence.
This week, the Chrisley family was notified their daughter, Julie, was sentenced to prison by a judge. In August of 2016, the two girls were indicted for running a multimillion-dollar business to defraud people out of thousands of dollars.
“It was a very difficult trial that required patience and resolve from the entire jury,” Judge Robert Stearns said. “The Chrisleys displayed both of these qualities.”
After a trial that took just days, Chrisley pleaded no contest to 24 felony counts.
From our experience and research, the sentencing is less about the loss they caused and more about the harm they did to Julie.
The sentencing will help Julie feel better about herself, and will hopefully put an end to the nightmare of her childhood.
It also means her mother, Todd Chrisley, will be facing 30 days in prison, and also paying back his daughter’s victims.
When Todd Chrisley was arrested for his crimes, he had been running his family’s company, Chrisley Knows Best, since he was 19.
He had been making millions of dollars selling products that promised to help smokers quit for years. But after his daughters started making the products, he and his wife, Julie, decided to stop selling them. They had been running and making money from the company with no idea of the scale of their crimes, and were completely unaware until they were charged with selling thousands of dollars worth of lies.
The girls were just as surprised as anyone. Todd Chrisley had been managing the company for 14 years, yet he had no clue what his kids were up to.
“We had no idea how big this was,” Todd Chrisley told KSL. “We had no idea how far it would go.”
Todd Chrisley and Julie Chrisley did not know they were selling products that were full of lies, and had no idea what the consequences would be. The Chrisleys didn’t know because in the years they were running their business, they
