Todd and Julie Chrisley’s attorney flooded with calls from hopeful families after reality stars’ pardons

Todd and Julie Chrisley’s attorney flooded with calls from hopeful families after reality stars’ pardons

Todd and Julie Chrisley’s pardons haven’t only helped the reality stars.

Jay Surgent, one of the attorneys who fought tirelessly for the TV couple’s freedom, exclusively told The Post that his phone hasn’t stopped ringing since their release from prison on May 28.

Surgent, a partner at Weiner Law Group LLP, revealed his business has been booming the past two weeks, with several people all over the country calling and emailing him with hopes of getting pardons for their incarcerated loved ones.

Julie and Todd Chrisley sitting together.

“My business has been great,” he shared with The Post in his first interview since the Chrisleys’ release. “I’m looking at eight major cases that came in from across the United States by the sheer fact that my name was mentioned many times with the Chrisleys.”

The high-profile attorney said those contacting him are begging for help with parole applications for their children, husbands, wives, uncles, aunts, etc., in prison.

“I cannot believe what my phone looked like after they got out,” Surgent said, adding he was shocked at how many people took interest in the “Chrisley Knows Best” family’s case.

“I think I’ve got to get a new cell phone. This is ridiculous,” he joked, revealing that after Todd and Julie walked out of prison, he got “three to five hundred emails a day.”

“I could be on the phone two o’clock in the morning making phone calls for people that have literally sent me out packets saying, ‘This is my uncle’s federal case, they’re away, and please do this,’” he explained, noting his surprise about how many hopeful loved ones have reached out to him because of his association with the reality TV family.

Headshot of Jay Surgent, attorney for Todd and Julie Chrisley.

Julie and Todd Chrisley in an embrace.

“It helped me,” Surgent told The Post about taking on Todd and Julie’s case. “They market the hell out of me.”

“You know, I represented them. And we submitted legal work for them, and I did all that,” he explained. “But then I really believe that I turned, believe it or not, more into a publicist as opposed to an attorney,” adding he had no problem with that.

While he’s intrigued by the inundation of business, Surgent warns that Trump is likely not handing out pardons as easily as he did for the reality stars.

Savannah Chrisley wearing a pink "Make America Great Again" hat and jacket.

“Most of the stuff is people that are unknown,” Surgent stated of those who have reached out for help, sharing that the president is probably not going to give gang leaders, people who commit violent crimes and drug dealers their freedom.

Late last month, President Trump pardoned both Todd and Julie, who served over two years of their combined initial 19-year sentence.

In 2022, the “Chrisley Knows Best” stars were convicted of tax evasion and bank fraud after being accused of defrauding the government by submitting fake documents to secure over $30 million in fraudulent loans.

Julie and Todd Chrisley.

Their daughter, Savannah, 27, along with their legal team, worked around the clock for their release, with the young reality star even befriending Trump and advocating his 2024 presidential race.

Savannah said she got the pardon news directly from Trump and slammed rumors that she “slept” with someone in exchange for her parents’ freedom.

She stood outside FPC Pensacola in Florida while waiting for her dad’s release and profusely thanked the commander in chief.

Todd Chrisley and Savannah Chrisley smiling for a photo.

Her older brother, Chase, also issued a statement exclusively to The Post, thanking the president following their parents’ pardons.

“I am grateful to God and extremely grateful to President Trump and his entire administration. I’m beyond thankful to finally have my parents back home and my family together again!” he shared last month.

Todd held his first press conference just two days after his prison release.

Breaking his silence, the Chrisley patriarch claimed that he was treated differently from black inmates and vowed to continue to expose what he saw behind bars.

“They were denied programming. They were denied access to certain things,” Todd alleged. “I was not denied that, but we know why I wasn’t denied that. And so I think that that is a much bigger picture that we all as a society as a whole need to look at: that we are one.”

He also shared how the inmates reacted to his pardon.

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