Todd And Julie Chrisley Sue Law Firm For $25 Million, Say Legal Flub Led To Conviction

Embattled reality TV personalities Todd and Julie Chrisley are suing an Atlanta rule patient and 1 of its attorneys, alleging that ineligible mistakes led to nan couple’s conviction.

The lawsuit, revenge June 5 successful U.S. District Court for nan Northern District of Georgia, alleges that Atlanta-based Balch & Bingham LLP and lawyer Chris Anulewicz “put their ain interests up of their clients’ lives” by taking connected nan couple’s lawsuit and appointing Anulewicz arsenic nan lead, which they opportunity meant “money, publicity, and nan benignant of high-profile notoriety that brings successful business.”

According to nan Chrisleys, Anulewicz “had nary meaningful criminal defense experience,” and “Balch knew this — aliases should have.” They besides declare that while representing them, Anulewicz steered them into a $75,000 finance successful his brother-in-law’s nutrient motortruck business.

The suit claims that nan couple’s condemnation and consequent national situation condemnation were nan consequence of an “unlawful, warrantless hunt of nan Chrisleys’ warehouse” by nan Georgia Department of Revenue, and that Anulewicz missed a deadline to suppress derivative grounds that was yet utilized arsenic nan instauration of nan prosecution’s case.

“That forbidden hunt launched nan full national case,” sounds nan lawsuit. “The territory tribunal agreed nan hunt was forbidden and suppressed nan beingness documents. But Anulewicz — operating without supervision from Balch — ne'er moved to suppress nan derivative evidence: nan emails, slope records, and financial documents that national agents obtained because of what they learned from nan forbidden search.”

The mates is seeking $25 cardinal successful damages, claiming that because their squad didn’t person nan documents suppressed, they were convicted connected each count.

“They served clip successful national prison,” sounds nan suit. “They were separated from each different and from their children. They mislaid their tv show and endorsement deals, costing them much than $25 cardinal successful income. Their reputations were destroyed. They person spent millions much successful appeals and post-conviction proceedings, each of it an effort to undo harm that a azygous timely mobility would person prevented.”

In 2022, an Atlanta tribunal recovered nan “Chrisley Knows Best” mates blameworthy connected charges of conspiracy to perpetrate slope fraud, slope fraud, conspiracy to defraud nan United States and taxation fraud. Julie Chrisley was besides charged pinch ligament fraud and obstruction of justice.

Todd Chrisley received a 12-year sentence, on pinch 16 months’ probation, while his woman was sentenced to 7 years successful situation and 16 months’ probation.

In 2024, nan Chrisleys’ daughter, Savannah, appealed to President Trump to free her mom and dad. During nan Republican National Convention, she gave a reside astir the “rogue prosecutors” who locked up her parents.

Last year, Trump granted nan reality stars a afloat pardon.

Jay V. Surgent, an lawyer who represents Todd and Julie Chrisley, said successful a connection to The Times that nan reality stars “have correctly been pardoned by President Trump.” He alleged that Georgia officials violated nan “Chrisley Knows Best” stars’ law authorities owed to their notoriety and criticized section authorities’ “improper seizure of evidence.”

Times unit writer Alexandra Del Rosario contributed to this report.