Washington – President Trump said that he will forgive reality TV stars Tod and Julie Chrisle, Who are in jail For allegations that include bank fraud and tax evasion in an emotional call with their children on Tuesday.
“Your parents are going to be independent and clean. I hope we can do it till tomorrow,” Mr. Trump Said In a long clip of about two minutes shared by the White House colleague. “I don’t know them, but give them their relationship and give them a good life.”
The couple was sentenced in 2022, in which Todh Chrisle got 12 years and Julie Chrisle got seven years.
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The Department of Justice said that the couple, who acted on “Crisali Nose Best”, presented false financial statements to get more than $ 30 million in personal loans to pay their luxury cars, designer clothes, real estate and travel. He used new fraud loan to pay old people back and then filed for bankruptcy.
Later earning millions from their reality TV shows, the couple hid their income from IRS to avoid paying around $ 500,000, while failing to file tax returns and pay taxes from 2013 to 2013 to 2016.
Julie Chrisle was also convicted of obstructing justice.
Announcing his prison sentence in 2022, an attorney of an justice department said, “Their long sentences reflect the magnitude of their criminal plan and should act as a warning for others tempted to exploit our country’s community banking system for illegal personal benefits.”
In his call on Tuesday with the couple’s children, Mr. Trump said that the couple got “very rigorous treatment, which I am hearing, based on it.”
The couple’s daughter, Sawan, is apologizing to her parents. Earlier this month, in an interview with Mr. Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump on Fox News, he said that his parents were incorrectly targeted due to their celebrity status, which referred to the prosecutors to the Fulton County in Georgia and referred to them as the “trump” of the south.
“When I saw, of course, what the President was doing, what has happened through my family, it was very similar,” he compared his family’s case to Mr. Trump’s legal troubles.
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