Julie Chrisley’s Prison Sentence Vacated: ‘Chrisley Knows Best’ Star Awaits New Sentencing

Over a year-and-a-half after Todd Chrisley and Julie Chrisley received their prison sentences on counts of tax evasion and bank fraud, the latter is going to be resentenced.

According to court documents secured by Entertainment Tonight, Julie’s sentencing was vacated on Friday (June 21), as a miscalculation was discovered that had held her responsible for the whole bank fraud scheme. The docs cite this move as a way to “address the narrow issue of what the proper loss amount attributable to Julie is for purposes of the base offense level, restitution, and forfeiture.”

While her case will be sent for resentencing to a lower court, Todd and accountant Peter Tarantino’s convictions were upheld, per ET.

The scheme began in 2006, but the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals could not find sufficient evidence to prove Julie’s involvement prior to 2007, per the judges’ ruling secured by People.

Todd and Julie’s daughter, Savannah Chrisley, who has become an advocate for her parents’ wellbeing in prison, took to Instagram to share the news about the appeal, noting that “it didn’t necessarily go as [they] had hoped, but [they] do have a little win,” referring to Julie’s resentencing.

After reading the opinion “word for word” aloud, she explained that “this means the appeals court could not find any evidence that attributed this $17 million loss amount to [her] mother,” for which she is “grateful.”

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While Savannah remained optimistic in her video, saying that she is “a firm believer that [Julie] will be coming home sooner rather than later,” she also teased that she “has some other ideas up [her] sleeve to get [her] dad home.”

Alex Little, Todd and Julie’s attorney, told People that they are “pleased that the Court agreed that Julie’s sentence was improper, but [they’re obviously disappointed that it rejected Todd’s appeal.”

While Julie and Todd were found guilty in June 2022, both their original prison sentences — seven years for Julie and 12 years for Todd — were reduced to five and ten years, respectively, in September 2023.

In January, Savannah, along with her brother Grayson and sister Chloe, visited their mother in prison in Kentucky in honor of her 51st birthday. While Todd and Julie received a $1 million settlement in January from a lawsuit they filed in 2019 against Joshua Waites, the former director of the Georgia Department of Revenue’s office of special investigations, Todd was ordered to pay $755,000 in a defamation lawsuit in April.