MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Missouri woman who tried to use a fake company and forged documents to sell Elvis Presley's Graceland for millions of dollars in a brazen and unrealistic foreclosure sale of the home-turned museum was sentenced Tuesday to more than four years in federal prison.
U.S. District Judge John T. Fowlkes Jr. questioned the likelihood of the plot's success when he sentenced Lisa Jeanine Findley in federal court in Memphis to four years and nine months behind bars, plus an additional three years of probation. Findley, 54, declined to speak on her own behalf during the hearing.
Findley pleaded guilty in February to a charge of mail fraud related to the scheme. She also had been indicted on a charge of aggravated identity theft, but that charge was dropped as part of a plea agreem