{"id":357564,"date":"2026-06-12T08:18:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T08:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/357564\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T08:18:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T08:18:35","slug":"todd-and-julie-chrisley-sue-atlanta-law-firm-for-25-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/357564\/","title":{"rendered":"Todd and Julie Chrisley sue Atlanta law firm for $25 million"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Embattled reality TV personalities Todd and Julie Chrisley<\/a> are suing an Atlanta law firm and one of its attorneys, alleging that legal mistakes led to the couple\u2019s conviction.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit, filed June 5 in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, alleges that Atlanta-based Balch & Bingham LLP<\/a> and attorney Chris Anulewicz \u201cput their own interests ahead of their clients\u2019 lives\u201d by taking on the couple\u2019s case and appointing Anulewicz as the lead, which they say meant \u201cmoney, publicity, and the kind of high-profile notoriety that brings in business.\u201d <\/p>\n

According to the Chrisleys, Anulewicz \u201chad no meaningful criminal defense experience,\u201d and \u201cBalch knew this \u2014 or should have.\u201d They also claim that while representing them, Anulewicz steered them into a $75,000 investment in his brother-in-law\u2019s food truck business.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit claims that the couple\u2019s conviction and subsequent federal prison sentence were the result of an \u201cunlawful, warrantless search of the Chrisleys\u2019 warehouse\u201d by the Georgia Department of Revenue, and that Anulewicz missed a deadline to suppress derivative evidence that was ultimately used as the foundation of the prosecution\u2019s case.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat illegal search launched the entire federal case,\u201d reads the lawsuit. \u201cThe district court agreed the search was illegal and suppressed the physical documents. But Anulewicz \u2014 operating without supervision from Balch \u2014 never moved to suppress the derivative evidence: the emails, bank records, and financial documents that federal agents obtained because of what they learned from the illegal search.\u201d <\/p>\n

The couple is seeking $25 million in damages, claiming that because their team didn\u2019t have the documents suppressed, they were convicted on every count. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey served time in federal prison,\u201d reads the suit. \u201cThey were separated from each other and from their children. They lost their television show and endorsement deals, costing them more than $25 million in income. Their reputations were destroyed. They have spent millions more in appeals and post-conviction proceedings, all of it an attempt to undo harm that a single timely motion would have prevented.\u201d <\/p>\n

In 2022, an Atlanta court found the \u201cChrisley Knows Best<\/a>\u201d couple guilty on charges of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States and tax fraud. Julie Chrisley was also charged with wire fraud and obstruction of justice. <\/p>\n

Todd Chrisley received a 12-year sentence, along with 16 months\u2019 probation, while his wife was sentenced to seven years in prison and 16 months\u2019 probation. <\/p>\n

In 2024, the Chrisleys\u2019 daughter, Savannah, appealed to President Trump to free her mom and dad. During the Republican National Convention, she gave a speech about the \u201crogue prosecutors\u201d<\/a> who locked up her parents. <\/p>\n

Last year, Trump granted the reality stars a full pardon<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Jay V. Surgent, an attorney who represents Todd and Julie Chrisley, said in a statement to The Times that the reality stars \u201chave correctly been pardoned by President Trump.\u201d He alleged that Georgia officials violated the \u201cChrisley Knows Best\u201d stars\u2019 constitutional rights due to their notoriety and criticized local authorities\u2019 \u201cimproper seizure of evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Times staff writer Alexandra Del Rosario contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Embattled reality TV personalities Todd and Julie Chrisley are suing an Atlanta law firm and one of its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[145579,145582,145580,21214,48025,2798,145581,49162,145583,145578,48,52,51,1846,47,50,49,3906,3020,122314,72],"class_list":["post-357564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-anulewicz","tag-atlanta-based-balch","tag-chrisleys","tag-conspiracy","tag-conviction","tag-couple","tag-derivative-evidence","tag-federal-prison","tag-illegal-search","tag-julie-chrisley","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lawsuit","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-month","tag-president-trump","tag-todd","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}