Dirty Money Moves: Women in White Collar Crime

Since we concluded our season 1 investigative series on Mary Carole McDonnell, the phony Hollywood heiress, in July 2022 there haven't been any material updates in her case. It’s been crickets for the past few years until early December 2025 when Mary Carole was added to the FBI’s Most Wanted list. Suddenly, Mary Carole’s case was making headlines with every news outlet you can think of. Jami, host of Dirty Money Moves, began doing some digging to satisfy her curiosity about what may have prompted this action by the FBI. She found something interesting in the Dubai court system. It was a Public Notice of Appeal filed by Jeffrey John Nilles, Mary Carole’s husband. He’d filed an appeal in June 2024 in response to an unfavorable civil judgment against him in Dubai. There were three people named as notified parties to the appeal, one of them being a woman named Thilani Kumari Brady. A few weeks after finding this information, Jami received a DM from Thilani indicating she’d befriended Mary Carole McDonnell and Jeffrey Nilles in Dubai and that they’d attempted to get their hands on her money. Thilani agreed to an interview and provided a lot of insight on who Mary Carole McDonnell and Jeffrey Nilles are, and what they’re up to in Dubai. 

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Executive Producers are: Jami Rice and Sim Sarna

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Like it or not, Todd and Julie Chrisley are out of prison, way ahead of schedule, thanks to President Trump’s pardon. It seems like the short 28 months they did spend in federal prison didn’t do much to change their narrative, however. Just two days after Todd and Julie’s release from their respective prisons, Todd held a press conference where he proclaimed that he was convicted of something he didn’t do, and that there was a tremendous amount of misconduct by the government during the investigation and trial. This, even though the district court judge who oversaw their trial didn’t buy the Chrisleys’ allegations of prosecutorial misconduct, the jury certainly didn’t hear any proof of it, and the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals also didn’t find that there was misconduct on the government’s part… or on the part of the district court judge who oversaw the trial. The Chrisleys have already done a few sit-down interviews, and have had cameras filming their every move since the moment they exited prison. There’s also a new TV show set to release this year, and hints of others to come. Will viewers be able to see through the lies and manipulation, particularly in the interviews the Chrisleys have done recently? Will Todd and Julie be able to win back their reality TV following and line their pockets with millions as if none of this ever happened, or will America wise up, see through their bullsh*t, and finally send the Chrisleys into obscurity?

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Executive Producers are: Jami Rice and Sim Sarna

Research and writing by: Gina Mazzolini 

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Todd and Julie Chrisley were convicted in June 2022, after a mountain of solid evidence was presented to the jury. The Chrisleys were finally going to be held accountable for their schemes. It’d been a long time coming, especially if you take into consideration the many years Todd and Julie stiffed contractors and vendors along the way, or the homeowners who were scammed after putting their trust in the Chrisleys. The only question that remained was how long would they spend behind bars? I don’t think anyone could have predicted that Todd and his son Grayson would appear on TikTok together just two years after being sent to prison. This was made possible after President Trump stepped in.

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Executive Producers are: Jami Rice and Sim Sarna

Research and writing by: Gina Mazzolini 

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Todd and Julie Chrisley’s reality TV show, “Chrisley Knows Best,” became popular, in part, for their apparent family values. They were often seen on the show trying to teach their children how to be good Christians and live moral, honest lives. But we know that Todd acted one way on the TV show and a whole other way off camera, in a sort of a “do as I say, not as I do” lifestyle. From the vulgar and disturbing things Todd allegedly said and did to numerous employees at his company, to the well-documented threats Todd made to his own daughter when she dared to go against his alleged demands for her to lie about a Georgia Department of Revenue employee, to the allegations of violence leveled against Todd by his ex-wife …Todd Chrisley was a less than stellar example for his kids. Julie may not have been so brash about her moral imperfections, but she did her share of lying and cheating which was also documented in police reports and court documents. Yet, what most of the public knew about the Chrisleys were the life lessons they preached on their TV show. Todd said to his youngest child on one of their episodes “there’s never a right way to do the wrong thing.” It’s RICH of Todd to say this knowing that the episode was filmed after he and Julie were indicted on federal tax evasion and bank fraud charges, and were awaiting trial. If the Chrisleys actually practiced what they preached, perhaps they never would’ve lied to and scammed so many people over the years, let alone be accused of being the ringleaders of a years-long $36,000,000 fraud scheme. But as we’re about to find out, the Chrisley’s don’t seem to think the rules apply to them.

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Dirty Money Moves is a collaboration between MURDERISH and Cloud10 Media.

Executive Producers are: Jami Rice and Sim Sarna

Research and writing by: Gina Mazzolini 

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From 2014 to 2017 Todd and Julie Chrisley were riding high on the success of “Chrisley Knows Best.” But fans had no idea about Todd and Julie’s extensive criminal history, lawsuits, or exactly what the bankruptcies entailed because all of those things happened before the Chrisley’s fame, when no one was paying attention. In 2017, however, everyone would be paying attention as that was the year that began the Chrisley family’s eventual fall from grace. Todd appeared in the media spouting tales of government corruption, and proclaiming that he and Julie were the real victims. Todd took to his social media and podcast to personally attack people involved in cases against him. What began in 2017 would be a several-years-long process that culminated in Todd and Julie’s federal indictment in 2019. But would that be enough to shut them up? Or would the Chrisleys continue to shout from the rooftops that they were the real victims in all of this?

Follow Jami Rice on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube @JamiOnAir to keep up with true crime cases she’s weighing in on.

Check out Jami’s other true crime podcast, MURDERISH, which is available in all podcast apps.

Dirty Money Moves is a collaboration between MURDERISH and Cloud10 Media.

Executive Producers are: Jami Rice and Sim Sarna

Research and writing by: Gina Mazzolini 

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