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The Justice Division introduced prices Friday in opposition to a Missouri lady who allegedly tried to steal possession of Graceland and hundreds of thousands of {dollars} from Elvis Presley’s household.
The girl, 52-year-old Lisa Jeanine Findley, is accused of orchestrating a failed foreclosures try on Presley’s former residence by claiming that his daughter Lisa Marie Presley had pledged Graceland as collateral for a mortgage that she didn’t repay earlier than she died.
Findley is charged with mail fraud and aggravated id theft. Prosecutors say she additionally goes by the aliases Lisa Holden, Lisa Howell, Gregory Naussany, Kurt Naussany, Lisa Jeanine Sullins, and Carolyn Williams.
She was arrested Friday morning, the Justice Division stated, and can seem in federal court docket in Missouri this afternoon. A lawyer is just not listed in court docket filings. Information of the arrest coincides with the anniversary of the elder Presley’s loss of life. The singer died of a coronary heart assault on August 16, 1977 at age 42.
In keeping with court docket paperwork, Findley posed as numerous workers of a pretend personal lender firm named Naussany Investments & Personal Lending LLC from which she claimed that Lisa Marie Presley borrowed $3.8 million. Prosecutors say such a mortgage was by no means made.
To settle the false declare after Lisa Marie Presley’s loss of life in 2023, Findley tried to get $2.85 million from Elvis Presley’s household by submitting false foreclosures paperwork, deeds and claims in court docket, in response to prosecutors.
In Might, the foreclosures sale was blocked following a lawsuit from Elvis’s granddaughter, Danielle Riley Keough, who took possession of Graceland after her mom handed away in January 2023. Naussany Investments then dropped its foreclosures efforts.
When the alleged scheme was extensively reported on, prosecutors say Findley wrote to media shops, native courts and Presley’s household to try to blame the scheme on an id thief in Nigeria.
In earlier reporting, a person responded to CNN’s request for remark from an e-mail deal with related to Naussany Investments in a mix of English and Luganda, a language spoken primarily in Uganda.
“I didn’t win this one. I’ve stole (sic) many identities and acquired monies, we don’t win all,” the particular person wrote.
A Chancery Courtroom in Tennessee decided in Might that the deliberate foreclosures public sale of Graceland – scheduled for the following day – would irreparably hurt Keough and dominated that the foreclosures could be postponed pending additional hearings to find out who maintained the rights to the property.
The Tennessee legal professional common’s workplace turned its investigation into the matter over to the Justice Division earlier this summer time.