Todd Chrisley and Julie Chrisley are given another month of freedom before being sentenced to 30 years in prison after they were both found guilty of bank fraud and tax evasion.
According to court documents filed Monday and obtained by Vidak For Congress, the sentencing date of the “Chrisley Knows Best” stars was moved from October 6 to November 21.
In addition to their change of conviction, the Chrisleys — who were charged in August 2019 — also filed a joint motion for a new trial on the grounds that a witness “lied” during their spring trial.
“The government has presented and uncorrected false testimony from IRS Revenue Officer Betty Carter, who lied about the Chrisleys owed taxes or years when it knew there were no taxes due,” they claimed in the Aug. 24 filing.
They continued to claim that her testimony portrayed the family as “untruthful, likely committing other forms of fraud and evading the tax payments alleged in the indictment.”
During the trial, prosecutors argued that the couple — who share Chase, 26, Savannah, 24, and Grayson, 16 — submitted false documents to banks when applying for loans. In addition, Julie, 49, also allegedly used false statements to try to rent a home in California.
Todd, 53, was found guilty of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States and tax evasion.
Julie, on the other hand, was convicted of wire fraud and obstruction of justice in addition to the same federal charges her husband received.
Chrisley’s patriarch recently admitted to becoming a ‘slave’ of money amid his reality TV successes.
“I got lost when I couldn’t tell the difference in my self-esteem and my net worth,” he said on the July 29 episode of his podcast, “Chrisley Confessions.” “And the bigger my net worth got, the less I focused on my self-esteem because everything was built around that ability. Around stuff.”
The producer went on to explain that because he “wanted to keep up with everyone around him,” he started buying “all these cars and all these houses.”
He continued: ‘You become a slave to the things you thought would bring you peace. So I got lost in that and all my life because I think I was too ignorant – and if I use the word ignorant [I mean] l [didn’t] know that I understood how to distinguish between self-esteem and net worth.”