Reality star Julie Chrisley revealed she was ‘living in fear’ ahead of her and her husband Todd’s multi-year sentence for defrauding banks and paying taxes for years out of $30 million in debt .
Last week, the devout Christian couple were sentenced to a combined prison term of nearly two decades after being convicted of bank fraud and tax evasion nearly six months earlier.
While Todd, 54, is getting away for 12 years, Julie, 49, will be behind bars for seven years and both will spend 16 months on probation after their respective releases.
In an episode of the pair’s podcast, Chrisley’s Confessions, which was recorded before he was sentenced, Julie discussed his situation through the lens of his Christian faith.
She said: ‘I know in my heart that I am a Christian, I believe in God, I believe that God can do miracles, I believe that He will take care of my family, that if I die today , so I know where I’m going.
‘But I still fear it.’
Todd and Julie Chrisley, who have been sentenced to 12 and seven years in prison, respectively, for tax evasion and bank fraud amounting to more than $30 million.
The reality TV couple was convicted in June and sentenced last week. They will report to jail after January 1
Court sketch of couple who say their faith in God will get them out of the predicament of their current situation
‘Everyone knows we are living through a nightmare… My focus is on not living in fear.’
Fear, she told her fans, is an emotion she ‘struggles hard with.’
The Chrisley Knows Best matriarch attempts to find a layer of hope in her family’s current situation, which she says is her relationship with her husband.
He said, ‘I am grateful that our relationship has grown rather than broken.’
‘When people go through traumatic events, many times they don’t make it.
‘Many times a relationship breaks up because of everything being stressful. There’s extra pressure in that, and people don’t make it,’ she said.
After sentencing last week, the couple said they plan to draw on their faith in God while preparing an appeal. He has maintained his innocence throughout the court battle.
An Atlanta court found him guilty of defrauding banks out of a $30 million loan and evading paying taxes for years.
‘Todd and Julie are people of faith, giving them strength as they appeal their sentence,’ a statement from the couple’s lawyer said, adding that the trial was ‘plagued by serious and repeated errors’ , in which the government was lying to the jury about what the tax was. The couple paid.
‘Based on these issues, we are optimistic about the way forward,’ the lawyer said.
After sentencing, prosecutor Annalies Peters said, ‘The jury’s unanimous verdict sets the record straight: Todd and Julie Chrisley are career swindlers who jumped from one fraud scheme to another, lying to banks, defrauding vendors, Lived by harassment and evading taxes. Every corner.
Julie Chrisley, who says she was fear-stricken in the days leading up to her sentencing, walks outside her sprawling Brentwood, Tennessee home after being sentenced to more than half a decade behind bars Broke the cover.
The couple and their kids have been cable reality show staples for nearly 10 years, showing the world a lavish lifestyle that, as it turned out, was built on bank fraud
Todd and Julie Chrisley’s Tennessee home in the exclusive neighborhood of Annadale in Brentwood, TN. Over the years most family reality series were filmed at Annandale House.
Since 2014, the couple and their family appear in several reality television shows presenting themselves as God-fearing Christians.
Before the show, however, he filed for bankruptcy in 2014, citing $50 million in debt. Todd’s lawyer claimed at the time that it was for him to personally guarantee the business loan, but records seen by DailyMail.com show how he claimed he had nothing in his bank account and that At the time there were only $100 cash.
He listed assets – mostly property – totaling $4.2 million, but his debt was $49.2 million.
The judge granted them relief and the outcome of the case wiped out $20 million of the debt.
However, two years later, he was boasting on TV about how he spent $300,000 a year on clothes for his family.
It was the beginning of the family’s many shows, and possibly the end of their free run.
In 2019, he was indicted on charges of fraud and tax evasion.
The pair have insisted they are the victims of false allegations and a smear campaign by a ‘disgruntled’ employee.
The said employee also claimed to have had a homosexual relationship with Todd Chrisley.
The pair has to report to the jail after January 1.
