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.
“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.
“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.
“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.
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.
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 than 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.
“When I left that day, there was only 317 men at our camp, but they were lined up shouting when I was walking out and they were saying ‘Don’t forget us, don’t forget us’ and my commitment is to them that I will never forget them,” Todd said.
While Todd has been seen several times since being free, his wife has been spotted only twice — and with different hairdos.
As for the family, they are eager to get back into their normal routines, especially Savannah, who expressed her excitement to celebrate all the events her parents missed while incarcerated.
“Their 29th wedding anniversary was May 25th so we’re only a few days out from that so when they reunite, we’re going to celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, Christmases all the things because we’re going to make up for lost time,” she said after their release.
Todd and Julie are also gearing up to make their reality television comeback, with the pair filming immediately after returning home from prison.
The Chrisley kids — Savannah, Chase, Grayson, 19, along with Todd and Julie’s adopted daughter, Chloé, 12, and Nanny Faye — had already been working on a docuseries with Lifetime that was set to show the family navigating their day-to-day as the couple served their sentences.
However, all that changed when Trump granted them pardons.
During Todd’s press conference, he revealed that he and his wife of almost 30 years “started filming literally the night that we got home.”
Savannah chimed in with more details, telling reporters that viewers will see “the first time” Todd and Julie saw, touched, and talked to each other since arriving at separate prisons in January 2023.
“We obviously, we had been filming, and we had just wrapped filming for all intents and purposes and then we get the call that they had been pardoned, so we picked right back up,” Savannah added of the new show.
“And we’re excited because I think this new show is going to give, first off, it’s gonna give people a look into the trial and things that we went through and we’re gonna set the record straight, put some documents out there.”
