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Missouri woman arrested in alleged scheme to defraud Elvis Presley’s family with false claim that Lisa Marie Presley pledged Graceland to her as collateral for $3.8 million loan she hadn’t repaid prior to her death

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-796ce495b4cc5617a19868175611ad09" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;221b1b&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Lisa Findley&comma; 53&comma; of Kimberling City&comma; is accused of falsely claiming that Lisa Marie Presley pledged Graceland to her as collateral for &dollar;3&period;8 million loan not repaid prior to her death <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9e5858afe38c8c29e2c182ff77549e58" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;221b1b&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>As part of the brazen scheme&comma; we allege that the defendant created numerous false documents and sought to extort a settlement from the Presley family” &&num;8211&semi; DOJ announced <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-52e948255e2049b048565e3db8ae8244" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;221b1b&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>She&&num;8217&semi;s charged with mail fraud and aggravated identity theft<&sol;strong> <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f9dc919814ddb527bb8cb6398af05326" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;221b1b&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Following a suit filed by Elvis Presley&&num;8217&semi;s estate&comma; a court in Tennessee blocked the sale the sale and launched an investigation which exposed the scam which was based on a bogus deed with forged signatures <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2bc9dd347489de728ba10fa2945fa8c6" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;221b1b&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>&ast;As the scheme garnered global attention&comma; Findley allegedly wrote to representatives of Elvis Presley’s family&comma; the Tennessee state court&comma; and the media claiming an identity thief located in Nigeria was behind the scheme<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;08&sol;Lisa-Findley-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-466795" style&equals;"width&colon;748px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Lisa Findley Lisa Findley&comma; &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; is accused of falsely claiming that Lisa Marie Presley&comma; had pledged Graceland to her as collateral for a &dollar;3&period;8 million loan she hadn’t repaid prior to her death&period; She&&num;8217&semi;s charged with mail fraud and aggravated identity theft<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>What appeared the full on purloin of one of America&&num;8217&semi;s most famous heirlooms ground to a halt after a Missouri woman was arrested for allegedly hatching a brazen scheme to defraud Elvis Presley’s family out of millions of dollars in real estate&period;<br>Lisa Findley of Kimberling City attempted to auction off the Rock and Roll king&&num;8217&semi;s signature Graceland property despite not having any claim to the estate&comma; the US Justice Department announced Friday&period;<br>Prosecutors have accused Findley&comma; 53&comma; of falsely claiming that Presley’s only child&comma; Lisa Marie Presley&comma; pledged Graceland to her as collateral for a &dollar;3&period;8 million loan&comma; which had not repaid prior to her death in January 2023&period;<br>Findley charged with mail fraud and aggravated identity theft&comma; made her initial court appearance Friday in Missouri federal court&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;08&sol;Graceland-Elvis-Prsleys-home-2-1024x611&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-466807"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Findley&comma; 53&comma; of Kimberling City&comma; Missouri&comma; has been arrested for allegedly trying to defraud Elvis Presley’s family out of millions of dollars after she attempted to auction off his Graceland property<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In a statement announcing the arrest on charges of mail fraud and aggravated identity theft&period; Nicole Argentieri&comma; the head of DOJ’s criminal division said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;As part of the brazen scheme&comma; we allege that the defendant created numerous false documents and sought to extort a settlement from the Presley family&period;”<br>Prosecutors allege that Findley&comma; who also goes by the names Lisa Holden&comma; Lisa Howell and Gregory Naussany&comma; used different personas to fabricate fake loan documents for the fictitious company &&num;8211&semi; Naussany Investments &amp&semi; Private Lending LLC &lpar;Naussany Investments&rpar; &&num;8211&semi; supposedly behind the agreement with Lisa Marie Presley&period; <br>To settle the purported claim of &dollar;2&period;85 million that she was seeking from the Presley family&comma; she then published a fraudulent foreclosure notice for Graceland in The Commercial Appeal&comma; one of Memphis’s daily newspapers&comma; announcing that Naussany Investments planned to auction the property to the highest bidder on May 23&period;<br>When news of the foreclosure hit&comma; the Presley family immediately <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;the-sun&period;com&sol;entertainment&sol;11418046&sol;elvis-graceland-home-for-auction-lisa-marie-presley&sol;">filed a lawsuit to blocking the sale<&sol;a> allegedly approved by a court&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;08&sol;Riley-Keough-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-466805" style&equals;"width&colon;766px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Elvis Presley&&num;8217&semi;s granddaughter Lisa Marie Presley’s daughter&comma; Riley Keough&comma; &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; said the company behind the foreclosure had no right to it&comma; arguing the loan was fake and not executed by her mother<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>At the time&comma; Lisa Marie Presley’s daughter&comma; Riley Keough&comma; said the company behind the foreclosure had no right to it&comma; arguing the loan was fake and not executed by her mother&period;<br>A Tennessee court eventually ruled to halt the sale and launched an investigation into the matter after questions were raised about the deed’s signature and authenticity&period;<br>When Naussany Investments was sued by the Presley’s family in Tennessee state court as part of an effort to stop the sale of Graceland&comma; Findley allegedly submitted false court filings&comma; DOJ said in the statement&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;08&sol;Lisa-Marie-Presley-2&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-466804" style&equals;"width&colon;676px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Findley schemed to illegally claim the Presley heirloom property because as she accused of falsely claimed in forged documentation that Lisa Marie Presley&comma; &lbrack;center&rsqb;&comma; had pledged Graceland to her as collateral for a &dollar;3&period;8 loan she hadn’t repaid<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Findley charged with mail fraud and aggravated identity theft&comma; made her initial court appearance Friday in Missouri federal court&period;<br>In a June interview outside her home&comma; Findley denied any involvement or knowledge of a scam involving Graceland&period; <br>The Graceland scheme first became public in May after a company without any records or evidence that it existed at all&comma; Naussany Investments&comma; filed a court claim that Lisa Marie Presley&comma; Elvis’ only child owed millions of dollars in unpaid loans&period; <br>The subject of the claim died in January 2023&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;08&sol;Elvis-presley-in-Graceland-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-466800" style&equals;"width&colon;823px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Following a suit filed by Elvis Presley&&num;8217&semi;s estate&comma; a court in Tennessee blocked the sale the sale and launched an investigation which exposed the scam which was based on a bogus deed with forged signatures<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>As the scheme garnered global attention&comma; Findley allegedly wrote to representatives of Elvis Presley’s family&comma; the Tennessee state court&comma; and the media to claim falsely that the person responsible for the scheme was an identity thief located in Nigeria&comma; DOJ said&period;<br>However&comma; investigation of the scam by FBI revealed that Findley forged names&comma; signatures&comma; and notary seals to create fake loan documents&comma; according to the charging documents<br>Investigators tracking telephone and email records discovered that Findley had called the Shelby County Register’s Office&comma; where the fake Graceland deed was filed&period; <br>Continuing the subterfuge&comma; Findley used burner emails connected to her phone number to submit notices of the foreclosure to a Memphis newspaper&period; Furthermore&comma; bank records for the account number provided for payment by Naussany Investments was actually Findley’s personal checking account&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><br><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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