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Since January 2023, disgraced reality TV star Julie Chrisley has been an inmate at the Federal Medical Center in Lexington, Kentucky. But days ahead of her resentencing hearing in the tax evasion and bank fraud case that sent her and her husband, “Chrisley Knows Best” star Todd Chrisley, to prison, a records check shows Julie Chrisley is not there.
According to a Bureau of Prisons record search, Julie Chrisley was shown as “not in BOP custody” as of Sunday, Sept. 22, with a release date of April 22, 2028. News reports state the 51-year-old Julie Chrisley is scheduled for another case hearing on Wednesday, Sept. 25. The BOP site is a record locator for inmates and does not explain what “not in BOP custody” means. However, the site notes that a pretrial inmate may have been removed from custody by the U.S. Marshals Service “and subsequently released by the court with no further notice to the BOP.”
In June 2022, Todd and Julie Chrisley were found guilty of tax evasion and defrauding community banks out of more than $30 million in fraudulent loans.
In January 2023, the Chrisleys traded their luxurious lifestyle for prison. While Julie Chrisley was at FMC Lexington, the 56-year-old Todd Chrisley is serving time at FPC Pensacola, described on its site as a “minimum security federal prison camp.” The couple was sentenced to 7 and 12 years, respectively, before each had their sentences reduced.
A Sept. 22, 2024, check on the Federal Bureau of Prisons website shows Todd Chrisley will be released July 26, 2032, more than two years earlier than his original 12-year sentence.
Here’s what we know about “Chrisley Knows Best” stars Todd and Julie Chrisley and their legal troubles.
Who are Todd and Julie Chrisley?
Before Julie and Todd Chrisley became residents of federal prisons in Kentucky and Florida, the pair were best known for their reality show “Chrisley Knows Best.”
In the USA Network docuseries, the couple portrayed themselves as real estate tycoons, and viewers got a peek into their lavish lifestyle in the suburbs of Atlanta and Nashville. The show drew in more than 2 million viewers by its eighth season. Todd Chrisley has two children with his first wife, high school sweetheart Teresa Terry, and three children with his second wife, Julie.
On the show, Todd Chrisley doesn’t shy away from sex talk, even giving The Sex Talk to his kids − on national TV. In 2017, Todd Chrisley made headlines after he called his 72-year-old mom out on TV for sexting, and he’s addressed speculation that he’s gay.
When is reality star Julie Chrisley’s resentencing hearing?
After 18 months, Julie Chrisley‘s prison sentence was thrown out after federal judges ruled her case had insufficient evidence, according to a June 25, 2024, story in USA TODAY.
In June 2024, judges from the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the judge in Julie Chrisley’s 2022 trial miscalculated her sentence and did not find evidence proving her full involvement in the bank fraud scheme for which she was sentenced, according to documents obtained by USA TODAY.
The court of appeals upheld Chrisley, her husband Todd Chrisley and their accountant Peter Tarantino’s convictions, but found the original trial judge miscalculated Julie Chrisley’s sentence. She was held responsible for the entire fraud scheme, which began in 2006.
“The district court did not identify the evidence it relied on to hold Julie accountable for losses incurred before 2007, and we cannot independently find it in the record,” the judges wrote in their unpublished opinion.
“We’re pleased that the Court agreed that Julie’s sentence was improper, but we’re obviously disappointed that it rejected Todd’s appeal,” Julie and Todd Chrisley’s lawyer Alex Little said in an emailed statement to USA TODAY in June 2024. “With this step behind us, we can now challenge the couple’s convictions based on the illegal search that started the case.”
Julie Chrisley will be resentenced in a lower court on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024.
Sangalang is a lead digital producer for USA TODAY Network-Florida. Follow her on Twitter or Instagram at @byjensangalang. Support local journalism. Consider subscribing to a Florida newspaper.
This article originally appeared on Tallahassee Democrat: Julie Chrisley, reality TV star in prison for fraud, to be resentenced
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