Julie Chrisley scored a legal victory Friday when a federal appeals court judge threw out her convictions for bank fraud and tax evasion.
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the convictions of Julie and her husband, Todd Chrisley. He was sentenced to a total of 19 years in prison. A jury found the couple guilty of conspiring to defraud the IRS as well as conspiring to obtain more than $30 million in fraudulent loans from area banks, and they are scheduled to enter prison in November 2022.
The three-judge panel found the only legal error was in the way the judge calculated the jury’s sentence. The Associated Press.
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Todd and Julie Chrisley were sentenced to prison in November 2022 for tax evasion and bank evasion. (Dennis Leupold)
Todd was originally sentenced to 12 years in prison but had his sentence reduced by two years. Julie was charged with bank fraud and tax evasion in August 2019 and sentenced to seven years in prison. Her sentence was reduced by 14 months to September 2023.
They will each be required to serve 16 months probation after serving their sentences.
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The media said the lower court must reimpose her sentence on what the trial panel deemed “limited issues.”
Todd Chrisley and Julie Chrisley entered prison on January 17, 2023. (USA Network)
Todd and Julie’s lawyer, Alex Little, told the outlet that the Chrisley family “hopes to hear more good news in the future.”
He added: “We are pleased that the court has found that the jury’s sentence was unjust, but we are clearly disappointed that it has dismissed Todd’s appeal.”
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At the Chrisley trial two years ago, prosecutors alleged that the Chrisleys submitted false documents to banks when applying for loans, and that Julie also submitted a false credit report and false bank statements when trying to rent a house in California.
US Attorney Annalise Peters argued that “the evidence at trial was overwhelming” that the Chrisleys “conspired to evade the IRS.”
Julie’s new sentence is still unknown. (Mike Windle/NBCUniversal via Getty Images)
Julie Chrisley’s convictions include bank fraud conspiracy, bank fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy to defraud the United States. She was also charged with wire fraud and obstruction of justice. She was housed in a satellite minimum security camp at the BOP facility in Lexington, sources confirmed to Fox News Digital.
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Todd Chrisley was convicted of bank fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy to defraud the United States. He was sentenced to 10 years in a minimum security facility. Pensacola Federal Prison.
As for the Chrisley family’s former accountant, Peter Tarantino, who was sentenced to three years in prison for knowingly filing false tax returns, Peters argued that Little had not shown any “actual and imminent prejudice caused by this.”
The Chrisley family posed during season one of the show, which aired in the US in 2014. (Tommy Garcia/USA Network)
The Chrisleys scored a small victory in 2019 when the Georgia Department of Taxation exonerated the couple. $2 million in state tax evasion The charges stem from a two-year investigation into tax returns spanning about eight years, beginning in 2008.
The IRS said that the couple Debt of over $2.1 million We reduced the unpaid state taxes, penalties and interest, bringing the total amount owed down to less than $110,000.
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