Was Todd and Julie Chrisley’s Fraud Trial Filmed for ‘Chrisley Knows Best’?

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Caught on camera? Todd Chrisley and Julie Chrisley‘s legal troubles have fascinated fans, but the drama won’t play out on Chrisley Knows Best.Production on the reality series’ 10th season had not yet started when the couple’s $30 million fraud trial kicked off in May, with a source exclusively telling Us Weekly, “The second half of season 9 was filmed prior to the trial.” Episodes return later this month.Todd, 53, and Julie, 49, were indicted on 12 counts of tax evasion, bank and wire fraud and conspiracy in 2019.

The Chrisley family patriarch denied the allegations in a statement at the time, claiming former employee Mark Braddock was attempting to get “revenge” on him and his wife using “a bunch of phony documents” to frame the couple.“[He] told [the U.S.

Attorney’s office] we had committed all kinds of financial crimes, like tax evasion and bank fraud,” Todd argued. “That got their attention all right, but once we had a chance to explain who he was and what he’d done to us, they realized it was all a bunch of nonsense and they sent him on his way. [He] persuaded a different set of investigators at the U.S.

Attorney’s office not only to reopen the case but also to grant him immunity from prosecution for his own crimes and bring charges against us.”The twosome arrived in court in Atlanta on May 17 for the opening statements of their trial.