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The woman from Missouri, who was behind the spectacular plan to sell Elvis Presley’s world-famous Graceland estate, Must to the federal prison for four years and nine months. The Associated Press reports.
Fake documents and an invented loan
Lisa Jeanine Findley, who was guilty of post -fraud in connection with the plan at the beginning of the year, was convicted by a federal court in Memphis on Tuesday, September 23. Findley refused to comment during the hearing.
Findley, 54, is said to have pretended to be several people and fake various documents. Among them was also a false claim that Presley’s daughter Lisa Marie Presley borrowed $ 3.8 million from a company called Naussany Investments and deposited the Graceland property as security-shortly before her death in January 2023.
Under the name “Kurt Naussany”, Findley sent numerous letters to the lawyers of Lisa Marie’s daughter Riley Keough. In it she demanded the repayment of the $ 3.8 million. If the money is not transferred, Graceland’s auction threatens. In May 2024, Naussany Investments actually began to announce a foreclosure. Keough then complained and argued that the credit documents were fake. On May 22, a judge stopped the planned auction – just one day before the scheduled date.
Previous and known as a fraudster
It was explosive that the foreclosure story came to the public just a few months after the settlement of an inheritance dispute between Keough and its grandmother Priscilla Presley.
In August Findley finally arrested for post -fraud and identity theft. NBC News had already tracked down the woman. She claimed to have become a victim of identity theft. A detailed report, however, drew the image of a fraudster with decades of criminal record list, which had swindled hundreds of thousands of dollars with love frauds, fake checks and bank fraud- and has already sized several times in state and federal prisons.
“Highly sophisticated fraud system”
Findley was guilty in February, whereupon the indictment due to identity theft was dropped. Her compulsory defender Tyrone Taylor pleaded for mildness and argued that the Presley estate had not suffered any financial damage. In addition, the plan was less sophisticated when the public prosecutor claimed – a “assembled idea” without realistic chances of success.
However, the judge clearly contradicted it. He described the case as a “highly sophisticated fraud system” and explained that it would have been a “judicial farce” if Graceland had actually changed the owner.