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Woman will plead guilty in the scheme to defraud Presleys and sell Graceland

Woman will plead guilty in the scheme to defraud Presleys and sell Graceland

A Missouri woman agreed to plead guilty of fraud on Tuesday for her role in orchestrating what the authorities described as a scheme of defrauding Elvis Presley’s heirs, claiming Graceland’s property, and the threat of threatening that It will sell it in an exclusion auction.

The woman, Lisa Jeanine Findley, from Kimberling City, Mo., will have an aggravated identity theft number He resigned as part of the plea agreement, which was submitted to the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee.

The number of fraud in the mail has a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, but prosecutors said they will recommend a sentence of less than five years. A spokeswoman for the Department of Justice did not respond immediately to a comment request. He also did not answer a public defender listed in the judicial documents for Mrs. Findley.

The case that involved Mrs. Findley broke out in the public eye in May, when lawyers for actress Riley Keough, the granddaughter of Mr. Presley, went to court to stop What they said was a long, fraudulent months scheme To sell Graceland, which is now a lucrative tourist attraction that attracts 600,000 visitors per year.

The judicial documents revealed that the attempt was made by a company known as Naussany Investments & Private Landing LLC, but exactly who was behind that company remained a mystery for several months. Naussany Investments stated in the judicial documents that Mr. Presley’s daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, who died in 2023He borrowed $ 3.8 million from the company and put it on Graceland as a guarantee.

The company subsequently scheduled a sale of Graceland. But A Tennessee judge blocked the sale The General lawyer of the state also said that his office would analyze the situation after no one was presented in court to represent the company.

Finally, federal officials came before And he claimed that the whole situation was part of an elaborate fraud.

In a statement filed in August in support of an arrest warrant, Christopher Townsend, a FBI agent, wrote that Findley used “a number of aliases, E -mail addresses and false documents” to engage “in a” Defraud dollar scheme threatening to exclude the “Graceland” estate. “

Mr. Townsend said in the 30 -page statement that Mrs. Findley created fraudulent loan documents and illegally used Mrs. Presley’s name and signature as part of her scheme.

The statement also said that Mrs. Findley has published a “fraudulent selling notification” in the commercial call, a newspaper in Memphis, made false statements that were sent to the Shelby County Register Office and communicated with Mass -Media through false identities.