Well, well, well, looks like Todd and Julie Chrisley have pulled a fast one on everyone! Despite being convicted of defrauding banks out of a whopping $30 million back in 2022, they’ve managed to sweet talk their way out of prison thanks to none other than a controversial pardon from President Donald Trump.
Talk about connections! Looks like the Chrisleys are back to their old tricks, but let’s hope they’ve learned their lesson this time around. Only time will tell if they can stay out of trouble for good this time.
Julie, 52, had been serving her seven-year prison sentence in Kentucky, while Todd, 56, was serving his 12-year sentence in Florida.
Early Wednesday evening, Todd was released from Federal Prison Camp Pensacola while Julie was set free from FMC Lexington, according to Fox5.
They are now headed back to their family home to Nashville, Tennessee.
The pair’s elated daughter Savannah, 27, spoke to the press outside his Florida prison after campaigning for years for their release.
While dressed in bright pink ‘MAGA Barbie’ attire, she lauded President Trump, who personally called her on Tuesday to inform her of his decision to give her parents ‘a full, unconditional pardon.’
After a nearly three-week jury trial, Todd and Julie were convicted in June 2022 of conspiring to defraud banks in the Atlanta, Georgia area out of more than $30 million in personal loans by submitting false documents.
They were also found guilty of wire fraud and tax evasion, obscuring their earnings while showcasing a luxurious lifestyle with expensive cars and designer clothes.
Wearing a hot pink MAGA hat, Savannah said she is ‘so grateful that I’m going to leave here with my dad’ after an ‘insane’ three years of her trying to get him and Julie freed.
She confirmed that her brother Grayson Chrisley would be the one picking up their mother from her Kentucky prison facility.
‘President Trump signed the pardons at around 3pm this afternoon and it’s all due to President Trump, Alice Johnson, Ed Martin, all of them,’ she told the crowd.
‘They have truly just shown up and looked at [Todd and Julie’s] case with a fine-tooth comb and they’ve seen the corruption.’
After her call with Trump, Savannah said she arrived at her dad’s prison in Pensacola at 2 in the morning on Wednesday and has been waiting there since.
‘I have not gone to sleep. I did not bring any clothes with me. I did not bring a toothbrush with me. I brought absolutely nothing with me,’ she revealed with a laugh.
‘I’m just a daughter that wants to take my dad home with me.’
When asked what Todd and Julie’s reactions were to Trump’s pardon, Savannah said that he was initially in total disbelief.
‘They didn’t believe it. [The pardon] literally came out of nowhere. As I said before, I was walking into the grocery store when I got the call from the president,’ she explained.
‘I was just in such shock and such awe that the president himself called me and took the time to let me know that my family’s coming back together.’
Savannah said that her and Trump’s entire correspondence was captured ‘on video’ and that he had called to let her know that he was ‘reuniting [her] family.’
They are now free! Talk about a get-out-of-jail-free card! I bet they’re breathing a huge sigh of relief right about now. Maybe they should consider investing in some ethical business practices this time around. Just a thought.
