Todd and Julie Chrisley have something to celebrate, even while still behind bars. The former reality stars, who are currently serving time for fraud and tax evasion, received a $1 million settlement from the State of Georgia.
Todd和Julie Chrisley有一些值得庆祝的事情，即使他们还在监狱里。这些前真人秀明星目前因欺诈和逃税而服刑，他们从佐治亚州获得了100万美元的和解。
The couple had filed a lawsuit against Joshua Waites, the former Director of Special Investigations of the state’s Department of Revenue, in 2019, alleging that he had committed misconduct in connection with his investigation of the Chrisleys.
2019年，这对夫妇对该州税务部前特别调查主任乔舒亚·韦茨提起诉讼，指控他在调查克里斯利夫妇时有不当行为。
“We have been saying for months that the criminal case against the Chrisleys was highly unusual and had real problems,” the family’s attorney, Alex Little of Burr & Forman LLP, said in a statement. “This settlement is an encouraging sign.”
“几个月来，我们一直在说，针对克里斯利夫妇的刑事案件非常不寻常，而且存在真正的问题，”该家族的律师、Burr&Forman LLP的Alex Little在一份声明中表示。“这一和解是一个令人鼓舞的迹象。”
The statement continued, “It’s nearly unprecedented for one arm of the government to pay money to defendants when another arm is fighting to keep them in jail.”
声明继续说道，“政府的一个部门向被告付款，而另一个部门却在努力将他们关进监狱，这几乎是前所未有的。”
The Chrisleys were cleared of a $2 million state tax evasion case in Georgia in 2019, and subsequently filed a lawsuit against Waites claiming he “specifically targeting” their family.
2019年，克里斯利夫妇在佐治亚州的一桩200万美元的州逃税案中被无罪释放，随后对韦茨提起诉讼，声称他“专门针对”了他们的家人。
Reps for the State of Georgia Dept. of Revenue did not immediately respond to EW's request for comment.
乔治亚州税务部的代表没有立即回应EW的置评请求。
Despite beating the state charges, the couple were later indicted by a federal grand jury for 12 counts of bank and wire fraud, tax evasion, and conspiracy, all of which they have denied. The stars of Chrisley Knows Best were found guilty of conspiracy to defraud banks out of more than $30 million in fraudulent loans, as well as several other federal charges of tax evasion, in June 2022.
尽管击败了州政府的指控，但这对夫妇后来被联邦大陪审团以12项银行和电信欺诈、逃税和阴谋罪起诉，他们都否认了这些指控。2022年6月，《克里斯利最懂》的主演们被判密谋骗取银行3000多万美元的欺诈贷款，以及其他几项联邦逃税指控。
They were originally sentenced to a combined 19 years in prison but last September Todd's sentence was reduced to about 10 years, from 12, while Julie's was reduced to about five years, from seven.
他们最初被判处19年监禁，但去年9月，托德的刑期从12年减至约10年，而朱莉的刑期从7年减至5年。
The Chrisleys are best known for their reality show, which followed real estate tycoon Todd Chrisley and his wealthy family for 10 seasons on the USA Network. The show was cancelled upon Todd and Julie Chrisley's sentencing in November 2022, along with the spinoff series Growing Up Chrisely, centered around their children Chase and Savannah.
克里斯利夫妇最出名的是他们的真人秀节目，该节目在美国电视网播出了10季，讲述了房地产大亨托德·克里斯利和他的富裕家庭的故事。2022年11月，托德和朱莉·克里斯利被判刑后，该剧被取消，同时还有以他们的孩子蔡斯和萨凡纳为中心的衍生剧《克里斯利的成长》。
According to the Chriselys' lawyer, their appeal of their criminal convictions will be heard by the federal appeals court in Atlanta in April.
据克里斯利夫妇的律师称，他们对刑事定罪的上诉将于4月在亚特兰大的联邦上诉法院审理。
