A Missouri woman was sentenced Tuesday to more than four years in prison in a brazen and blundering attempt to steal Graceland from the family of Elvis Presley.
Lisa Jeanine Findley, 54, who has gone by many other names in a criminal career spattered with financial grifts , was accused of posing as a bogus investor claiming rights to the historic landmark that draws more than half a million visitors a year. Presley lived at the Memphis estate until he suffered a fatal heart attack in 1977.
The 57-month prison term, plus three years of probation, imposed by a federal judge in Memphis marked the final notes of a madcap plot born two years ago in a small city in Missouri’s Ozark Mountains. Findley declined to speak on her own behalf during the hearing.
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