The Chrisleys: Life After Lock Up
Psych Legal Pop Podcast
Tess & Brooke Brigham
4.2 • 611 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we discuss the Federal criminal case that led to the conviction of reality television stars Todd and Julie Chrisley for bank fraud, wire fraud and tax evasion and the events that led to President Trump pardoning them in May of 2025, especially the role that their daughter Savannah played in securing the pardons. We also examine the Presidential pardon power in general.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome back to the psych legal pop podcast. |
| 0:05.8 | This is a podcast where we talk about popular culture through the lens of an attorney and a therapist. |
| 0:11.4 | I'm Brooke Brigham. I'm the attorney. And I'm Tess Brigham. I'm the therapist. |
| 0:16.1 | And today we are going to be talking about the Crisleys. Todd and Julie |
| 0:21.3 | Crisley and their family. |
| 0:24.7 | The Crisleys was a very, very popular |
| 0:26.8 | reality show that was on for like 10 years. |
| 0:30.7 | 10 seasons, yeah. |
| 0:33.0 | And I |
| 0:34.2 | had never seen an episode of it before. |
| 0:38.3 | And I always kind of wondered who are these people, but I just didn't have time to come up to speed. |
| 0:44.2 | Like the show had already been on for a long time. |
| 0:47.5 | I don't have that kind of time. |
| 0:48.7 | I don't have that kind of time. |
| 0:49.8 | So I became interested in them when they were indicted for financial crimes and were convicted of those crimes, went to prison, did a couple of years in prison. |
| 1:01.6 | And then through the advocacy of their daughter, Savannah, who was on the show, she got into the right rooms with the right people and worked it and she got President Trump to pardon them. |
| 1:15.1 | And so they were both released from federal prison in May. |
| 1:20.0 | And we're going to just kind of go through what happened and why they went to prison. |
| 1:25.8 | And then also I want to talk about this whole pardon process |
| 1:29.3 | because it's come up a lot lately in the news. |
| 1:33.1 | And the presidents are using it a lot more now. |
| 1:37.2 | I have some numbers of how many times the president has used their pardon power. |
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