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Lisa Jeanine Findley, 54, declared to blame for postal fraud related to the elaborate scheme in February

Missouri’s wife behind a bold plan to sell Gracelandthe famous mansion of Elvis Presley that became a museum, will spend four years and nine months in federal prison, according to the Associated Press.

Lisa Jeanine Findleywho stated to blame for postal fraud accusations linked to the coup earlier this year, was sentenced to a Federal Court of Memphis on Tuesday, September 23. During the audience, she refused to speak.

The scheme supposedly involved Findley54, passing through several people and falsifying numerous documents. Among them, a false allegation that the daughter of Presley, Lisa Marie PresleyI had taken a loan of $ 3.8 million from a company called Naussany Investments and given the deed of Graceland as a guarantee, before his death in January 2023.

Right away, Findleysupposedly pretending to be a man called Kurt Naussanysent several letters to the lawyers of the daughter of Lisa Marie, Riley Keoughrequiring the payment of US $ 3.8 million. If the money was not sent, Graceland would be put for sale. In May 2024, the Naussany Investments began to announce the mortgage execution of Gracelandwhat took Keough To enter its own process, claiming that the loan documents were false. A judge blocked the sale on May 22, just a day before the auction took place.

To add more drama, the story of the execution came to light months after Keough and your grandmother, Priscilla Presleyresolved a tense dispute over the inheritance of Lisa Marie.

It was only in August that federal authorities finally arrested Findleyby postal fraud and identity theft. A few months earlier, however, the NBC News had found it. At the time, she claimed to have been the victim of identity theft. The detailed report described Findley Like “a coup with a decades’ criminal record, full of fraud on relationships, counterfeit checks and bank frauds that totaled hundreds of thousands of dollars, for which she served a sentence in state and federal arrests.”

Findley He stated to blame for postal fraud charges in February, and prosecutors agreed to withdraw the accusation of identity theft as part of the agreement. Her public defender, Tyrone Taylorasked for a milder sentence, noting that the property of Presley did not lose money. He also argued that the Findley It wasn’t as sophisticated as prosecutors claimed, saying it was a “crazy idea” with little chance of success.

However, the judge disagreed, calling him ā€œa highly sophisticated fraud schemeā€ and adding that it would have been ā€œan absurdā€ if he had somehow a result in the sale of Graceland.

This article was originally published by Rolling Stone USA by Jon Blistein on September 24, 2025, and can be checked here.

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Source: Rollingstone

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