Earlier this yr, a Missouri lady conjured up a plan to fraud the household of Elvis Presley household out of their possession of his iconic dwelling, Graceland, however her scheme has now been all shook up. On Friday (August 16), the U.S. Division of Justice introduced that the would-be fraudster has been arrested, and is now going through a potential two-decade jail sentence.
The rip-off started when 53-year-old Lisa Jeanine Findley allegedly falsified mortgage paperwork, posing as three totally different individuals and forging the signatures of a notary public and Lisa Marie Presley in an effort to say that Elvis’ late daughter had used Graceland as collateral on a $3.8 million greenback mortgage, which she “defaulted” on earlier than her premature passing final yr.
From there, Findley filed a false creditor’s declare with the Superior Court docket of California, and a false deed of belief with the Shelby County Register’s Workplace in Tennessee, and revealed a fraudulent foreclosures discover in a Memphis newspaper, claiming that the property would go to public sale on Might twenty third.
Fortunately, the public sale was halted after Lisa Marie’s daughter, Riley Keough — who’s now the trustee of Promenade Belief, which controls Graceland — received a courtroom order to dam it. In a press release, Principal Deputy Assistant Legal professional Normal Nicole M. Argentieri described Findley’s plot as a “brazen scheme,” and alleged that “the defendant created quite a few false paperwork and sought to extort a settlement from the Presley household.”
Now, Findley is going through jail time — as much as 20 years for mail fraud and a compulsory minimal of two years for aggravated id theft. She made her first courtroom look on Friday, and allegedly wrote a proof to the courtroom, the Presley household, and media, claiming that the true perpetrator within the Graceland plot is an id thief based mostly in Nigeria.
