The daughter of imprisoned reality stars Todd and Julie Chrisley is hoping Donald Trump will give them a presidential pardon.
Savannah Chrisley revealed that her family is currently pursuing other options after previous failed attempts to appeal her parents’ 2022 convictions for federal bank fraud and tax evasion.
“I know that I am going through the proper channels to do so, and I’m going to bring as much awareness to it as possible because these things should not happen,” she told People magazine.
“We thought it was going to end differently,” she continued. “We had lawyers who had told us it was going to end differently. We stood in the truth, and we stood in what we knew to be the truth. We saw the corruption in Fulton County. We saw how the judge handled the case. We just saw all of it and we’re like, ‘There’s no way. There’s no way it’s going to end this way.’ But, it did.”
In June of 2022, the couple were found guilty of conspiring to defraud Atlanta-area banks out of more than $30 million in fraudulent loans. Todd was sentenced to 12 years in prison, while Julie was sentenced to seven years.
The “Chrisley Knows Best” stars, who married in 1996 and share three children, are currently serving their sentences at separate facilities in Kentucky and Florida. Each reported to prison in January 2023.
In July 2024, during a speech at the Republican National Convention, Savannah, 27, said her family had been “persecuted by rogue prosecutors in Fulton County.”
Todd and Julie’s attorney, Jay Surgent — who also described his clients as Trump supporters — shared the same sentiment that their “constitutional rights were violated” in an interview earlier this month.
“They believe that the president will seriously consider pardoning both Julie and Todd Chrisley as a result of the unfair treatment they received in the criminal justice system,” he told NBC News.
Surgent said a pardon request would be filed with Trump’s legal counsel in around two to four months.