In their tax fraud case, Todd and Julie Chrisley have been given permission to postpone sentencing. According to a new legal document obtained by ET, the Chrisley Knows Best actors will now be sentenced in an Atlanta courthouse on Nov. 21.
The pair was convicted of conspiring to conduct tax fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy to defraud the United States back in June. Todd and Julie were initially due to be sentenced on October 6 and may be given up to 30 years in prison if found guilty.
This change follows Todd and Julie’s application for a new trial and acquittal in August, which they submitted under the justification that their previous trial was “fundamentally unfair.”
Todd and Julie claimed in one court document that an IRS revenue officer “lied” when she testified that the Chrisleys owed taxes “when she knew no taxes were due.” These statements, according to their argument, “falsely painted the Chrisleys as untruthful, likely to commit additional forms of fraud, and dodging the tax payments specified in the indictment,” they argued.
Citing financial records they claim were “illegally acquired” by Georgia’s Department of Revenue and initially withheld by the court, they further accused the court of admitting “significant volumes of evidence at trial which was collected in violation of the Fourth Amendment.” The complaint continues by charging that by permitting part of the allegedly suppressed paperwork to be admitted into evidence, the court failed to “fully execute its suppression order.”
Furthermore, it was stated in the documents supporting the motion for acquittal that Julie “participated in any of the expressly alleged bank frauds” was not supported by any evidence.
Additionally, it asserted that there was insufficient proof that Todd and Julie engaged in wire fraud, bank fraud, tax evasion, or a conspiracy to defraud the US.