MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — A woman accused of a fraudulent foreclosure scheme involving Elvis Presley's Graceland mansion was sentenced Tuesday in a federal court in Memphis.
Lisa Jeanine Findley, of Missouri, was sentenced to 57 months in prison, with three years of supervised release. She also has to have mental health counseling and can’t open lines of credit without probation approval.
Findley could've received more than 10 years in prison, but the government requested the 57-month sentence.
The judge also called it a "wild scheme" and "highly sophisticated," as she tried to defraud the Presley family.
Findley's attorney said he isn’t commenting on the judge’s decision.
Findley pleaded guilty back in February to a charge of mail fraud.
She claimed that Elvis' daughter, Lisa Marie, had borrowed millions using Graceland as collateral, then published fake foreclosure notices in The Commercial Appeal in 2024.
Elvis' granddaughter sued, and a judge stopped the sale.
Graceland, Elvis Presley's home in Memphis until his death in 1977, opened as a museum and tourist attraction in 1982. It is the second most-visited house in the country, after the White House, with hundreds of thousands of visitors annually.
The judge talked Tuesday about Findley's criminal history when making these decisions. She has a number of convictions from the mid-2000s, many in Oklahoma. Although not violent, they go back to obtaining money under false pretenses, including credit card offenses and bogus check charges. Court records show she has not been convicted of a crime in the last decade.
The judge said at one point, "I don't know how the defendant would think this [scheme] would be accomplished, yet had it come to fruition, it would have been a tragedy of justice."
