Todd Chrisley fired from chaplain’s assistant job for ‘associating with inmates’

“Chrisley Knows Best” patriarch Todd Chrisley is serving a sentence at the federal prison in Pensacola, Fla. — where, up until recently, he was working as a chaplain’s assistant. The former “Chrisley Knows Best” star’s firing came after prison officials at the Pensacola facility saw him “associating with inmates” who are part of the prison’s Residential Drug Abuse Program, his attorney, Jay Surgent, told People on Thursday. “They had no hearing, there was no announcement.” A rep for the Federal Bureau of Prisons declined to comment about the situation, telling TMZ, “For privacy reasons, we do not comment on the conditions of confinement for any incarcerated individual, including their work detail assignments.” In June 2022, Todd and Julie Chrisley were convicted of tax evasion and bank fraud, with the former real estate tycoon receiving 12 years for his part in a scheme that went on for five years before the couple’s reality TV fame. She added that it was “amazing” to hear about “all the people that are coming to know Jesus in that place.” While Todd Chrisley is “very disappointed and upset” to no longer be facilitating religious services at Pensacola — which serve Christian, Jewish and Muslim inmates — Surgent said, his client’s dismissal “has not affected his firm belief that in the end, God will work things out for him, Julie, and his family.”