Todd and Julie Chrisley spent 10 years as federal targets. It started with a phone call in 2012. It ended with a presidential pardon in 2025. In between: a raid on a storage warehouse in the middle of filming, a waived statute of limitations, a threat to go after their family, a $17 million number a judge picked in court, and prison.
On the first episode of TARGET, they sit down with Alex Little and Amy Nelson to talk about what they wish they’d known on day one.
TARGET is a podcast about what it means to be in the crosshairs of the federal government. Alex Little is a former federal prosecutor and CIA analyst who now defends the people the system hunts. Amy Nelson’s husband spent 4 years under federal investigation and was never charged. Every week they sit down with someone who has lived it: the indicted, the acquitted, the pardoned, and the convicted. Nobody relitigates the case. The only question is what you wish you’d known before it began.
If you have received a target letter, or think you might be under federal investigation, this episode is where to start.
Chapters
0:00 Cold open
1:07 “When did you first find out you were targeted?”
5:38 The warehouse search, mid-filming
11:04 Waiving the statute of limitations
13:29 Interview your attorneys
35:52 The verdict
53:32 Walking into prison
1:09:47 What they would tell themselves on day one
1:13:23 Prison to the palace
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New episodes every Thursday. Next: P.G. Sittenfeld, the former Cincinnati councilman, on the bribery case that sent him to federal prison and the pardon that followed.
From Litson PLLC in Nashville.
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