Todd Chrisley Ordered To Pay $750k Over Podcast Attacks On Tax Evasion Investigator!
11.04.2024 - 01:31
/ perezhilton.com
First, you f**k around. Then, you find out. It’s a tale as old as time, and one even the seemingly untouchable Donald Trump has had to learn in recent months. You can’t just say whatever you want about anyone you want with no consequences! That’s not what free speech means! Now that he tore a page from Trump’s playbook, Todd Chrisley must learn that lesson the hard way, too!!
Last week, a federal jury determined the Chrisley Knows Best alum did indeed defame an investigator working for the Georgia Department of Revenue during their investigation into the reality star. The investigator, Amy Doherty-Heinze, sued Todd in 2021 with claims that he had sullied her reputation during episodes of his and wife Julie Chrisley‘s then-active podcast Chrisley Confessions.
Doherty-Heinze was working at the time on a GDOR project investigating Todd and Julie for bank fraud and tax evasion. The duo was later found guilty on those charges and got shipped off to federal prison, where they are to this day. Meaning Amy’s investigation went well — but at what personal cost? He really went at her as she gathered the evidence that put him away!
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Basically, Todd took to his Chrisley Confessions podcast first in 2020, and then really aggressively in 2021, with accusations that Doherty-Heinze and the GDOR were crooked, corrupt, and out to get the Chrisley fam during their tax evasion investigation. Specifically, the investigator’s lawsuit claimed that the 55-year-old reality TV star accused her of “a multitude of crimes and wrongdoing” on his podcast, including “repeated false accusations that, among other things, [Doherty-Heinze] engaged in various acts of criminal