Posted on 02/26/2025 8:33:48 AM PST by lowbridge
A Missouri woman has pleaded guilty to mail fraud for her role in an alleged scam to steal the Elvis Presley family’s ownership interest in the famed Graceland mansion.
Lisa Jeanine Findley, who has gone by various aliases including Lisa Holden and Lisa Howell, initially pleaded not guilty to mail fraud and aggravated identity theft last year. But during a hearing before a Memphis federal judge on Tuesday (Feb. 25), Findley agreed to plead guilty to one count of mail fraud. According to court documents, the other charge — a count of aggravated identity theft — will be dismissed as part of the plea deal.
Findley was arrested in August on the charges, with prosecutors alleging she posed as three different people affiliated with a fake company named Naussany Investments & Private Lending to claim that Presley’s daughter, the late Lisa Marie Presley, had utilized the music legend’s Memphis, Tenn., home as collateral for a $3.8 million loan she had failed to repay. Findley also allegedly falsified loan documents and forged the signatures of both Lisa Marie and a notary public in order to file a false deed of trust with the Shelby County Register’s Office, as well as a false creditor’s claim with the Superior Court of California in Los Angeles.
The Justice Department further claimed that Findley published a false foreclosure notice in The Commercial Appeal, Memphis’s daily newspaper, to announce that Naussany Investments intended to auction Graceland if Presley’s family did not pay or settle the claim against the estate.
However, that attempted auction was halted when Elvis’ granddaughter and Lisa Marie’s daughter, Riley Keough — who took over as trustee for the Graceland-controlling Promenade Trust following Lisa Marie’s death in 2023 at age 54 — won a court order blocking it.
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Hopefully her favorite song was Jailhouse Rock.
Another Democrat behind bars I’ll bet
Linda’s gonna be real popular in those jails in Memphis.
“Lisa Jeanine Findley, who has gone by various aliases including Lisa Holden and Lisa Howell”
Aliases......a dead giveaway of a grifter.
The whole case seemed suspicious. The claim was a loan wasn’t paid back.
Graceland is doing better than ever, so said a woman who works there.
Grandma took out a $100,000 loan using the house as collateral? Man, the old lady was loosing it at the end.
In reality grandma did no such thing.
This person just tried to take too big a bite of the apple but she and thousands just like her have done this before successfully.
Maybe the government employees could take a break from having conversations about their private parts and actually, oh I don't know... DO THEIR JOB?
That certainly is a complex scheme.....if only she would have used her abilities for good instead of some cockamamie swindle.
I remember reading, when the auction was to take place, that in Tennessee they process failure to pay claims with little to no investigation.
“You have to wonder how many times this works.”
If she had set her sights on some obscure property instead of one of the most famous properties in the South and arguably the country she may have pulled it off.....which makes me wonder if she HAS done this successfully in the past.....the chances that this is her 1st rodeo are slim IMO.
The "electronic signature" thing is ripe for fraud. People's homes are being stole out from under them and they have no idea until the eviction notices arrive. The targets are usually elderly. It is often written off as the person got scammed somehow when the scam is being run on the government.
Good one!
Grand theft Elvis.
Hey! Go big! Right? Don’t just steal any old place, steal Graceland!
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