(Reuters) -A Missouri woman was sentenced to nearly five years in prison for scheming to defraud the family of singer Elvis Presley of millions of dollars and steal their ownership interest in Presley’s iconic Graceland estate, the Department of Justice said on Wednesday.

The department said in a written statement that U.S. District Court Judge John Fowlkes in Memphis sentenced Lisa Jeanine Findley, 54, to four years and nine months in federal prison on Tuesday. Findley, who had faced up to 20 years in prison, pleaded guilty to mail fraud in February.

Findley organized a scheme to conduct a fraudulent sale of Graceland – Presley’s former home which was opened to the public in 1982 and is designated as a National Historic Landmark – by falsely claiming Presley’s daughter, Lisa Marie, had

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