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Jury says Todd Chrisley defamed GA Revenue agent, awards her $755,000 in damages
By WSBTV.com News Staff,
2024-04-04
A federal jury has found in favor of a Department of Revenue investigator against imprisoned reality star Todd Chrisley, and said he now owes that agent hundreds of thousands of dollars for slander.
According to the complaint, DOR investigator Amy Doherty-Heinze said Chrisley “began a social media campaign against the GDOR and certain of its employees, contending that the investigation was illegal and improperly motivated.”
Court documents say Chrisley “began attacking” Doherty-Heinze, “accusing her of a multitude of crimes and wrongdoing.”
On Thursday, a federal jury said Chrisley was responsible for one count of libel and one count of slander. The jury then awarded Doherty-Heinze compensatory damages of $350,000 plus punitive damages of $170,000, as well as attorney’s fees, totaling to about $755,000 in overall damages, Doherty-Heinze’s attorney said.
Todd and his wife Julie Chrisley, mostly known for their reality TV series “Chrisley Knows Best,” were found guilty in 2022 of conspiring to defraud banks and the IRS out of millions of dollars.
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