The Chrisley family is set to address reporters on Friday, days after the formerly jailed reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley were pardoned by President Donald Trump and released from federal prison.
The family will be holding a press conference at 10:30 a.m. CT, 11:30 a.m. ET, at the Kimpton Aertson Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee, flanked by their attorneys.
It is unclear if Todd and Julie Chrisley will be present.
Trump issued pardons to the Chrisleys on Wednesday. The pair, known for their roles on reality TV show “Chrisley Knows Best,” were convicted in 2022 of tax evasion and defrauding banks to obtain personal loans worth more than $36 million and fund a lavish lifestyle.
Prosecutors said that the Chrisleys submitted false bank statements, audit reports and personal financial statements to rgia community banks to obtain the loans.
They were found guilty by an Atlanta jury in 2022 and convicted of fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy to defraud the United States. Todd Chrisley was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison and Julie Chrisley was sentenced to seven years.
Their daughter, Savannah Chrisley, was pivotal in getting her parents released. The 27-year-old spoke at the Republican National Convention in July and began petitioning Trump to pardon her parents before the president was inaugurated, according to the Chrisleys’ attorney, Alex Little.
Little told NBC News on Wednesday that the family did not try to petition the Biden administration for the couple’s release.
Julie Chrisley made her first public outing on Thursday, to a butcher shop in Nashville, Tennessee. The 52-year-old was sporting her natural hair color, gray.
Later that day, Savannah Chrisley also posted selfies with her father on Instagram and captioned the images: “To the paparazzi following us looking to pay your bills… here’s your photo.”
The Chrisleys’ pardons were among several presidential clemencies to raise eyebrows in recent months.
Former President Joe Biden issued a pardon for his son Hunter Biden on federal gun and tax charges in December, and pre-emptive pardons for other members of his family before leaving office.
Within his first days of his second term, Trump pardoned roughly 1,500 criminal defendants in connection with the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
And on Monday, Trump announced he was pardoning Scott Jenkins, a former sheriff of Culpeper County, Virginia. The former sheriff was sentenced to 10 years in prison last year for accepting over $75,000 in exchange for giving law enforcement authority to local businessmen, in addition to two undercover FBI agents.
The Chrisleys’ former accountant, who was found guilty in 2022 of defrauding the Internal Revenue Service, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Wednesday that he also plans to petition the Trump administration for a pardon. The accountant, Peter Tarantino, served three years in prison for the crimes.
Chase Chrisley, one of the convicted couple’s sons, did not rule out whether his parents would return to reality TV in an interview with “Entertainment Tonight” on Thursday. He cautioned that “there’s no deal in place for my parents.”
Chase added that cameras were rolling when he and his siblings first spoke with their parents by telephone after their pardons were announced.
“You guys will see it. And it’s just been raw reality and truth of, like, the struggles that we’ve been going through as a family, as individuals and how to navigate that while still staying together and holding our family together,” he said.
It is unclear if the reality stars will be filming the press conference on Friday.
