Graceland tried to file foreclosure to enter 2025: Latest situation

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee Judge John T. Fowlkes on Wednesday granted an extension of the trial of the woman accused of attempted foreclosure sale. Elvis Presley’s Graceland mansion In Memphis.

Defendant Lisa Jeanine Findley did not appear in court Wednesday after the court approved a waiver of her appearance.

Findley, 53, was arrested in Missouri in August and mail fraud and aggravated identity theft. In September, Findley pleaded not guilty to the charges in the grand jury indictment and waived his right to a pretrial detention hearing.

Aaron Henricks of the U.S. Department of Justice said the prosecution provided 56 gigabytes and 54,000 pages of evidence to the defense following a discovery request filed on Sept. 27.

At Wednesday’s hearing, Henricks said the prosecution has another important piece of discovery awaiting analysis at the laboratory. Once that is complete, over the next few weeks, Henricks said the prosecution will add it to the defense’s discovery request.

Following the arrest, federal authorities seized multiple electronic devices from Findley’s home as part of a search warrant, including an Apple iPhone 14, Amazon Kindle Fire, Maxwest Astro 8R, Samsung Galaxy Flip 3 and Cloud Mobile Stratus C7, according to court documents. .

Defense attorney Tyrone Paylor said the defense needed more time to review all discovery evidence and acknowledged the defense could instruct his client to take a plea deal.

The next hearing date is scheduled for January 15.

How did we get here?

The Graceland case made international headlines after a series of eccentric details emerged. That’s when the case started The first public notice of the foreclosure sale appeared in The Commercial Appeal in May.

In May, Chancellor JoeDae Jenkins blocked Graceland foreclosure sale Following the ruling in the Shelby County Court of Chancery.. The sale initiative was carried out by an organization called Naussany Investments and Private Lending.

Findley is accused of creating Fake entity and various aliases linked to Naussany Investments Including “Kurt Naussany”, “Carolyn Williams” and “Gregory Naussany”. Findley is accused of creating six aliases related to the case.

Riley Keough inherits Graceland estate In May 2023, through The Promenade Trust. following the death of his mother, Lisa Marie Presley, in January 2023.. Keough is represented by the Memphis-based law firm Morton & Germany, which filed the lawsuit halting the foreclosure sale in May.

Following this measure, Gregory Naussany became the focus of the case. In May 2023, Gregory Naussany sent an email containing correspondence to The Commercial Appeal. Full of grammatical errors claiming the company will drop all debt claims.

Commercial Appeal received a follow-up email from Gregory Naussany claiming that Kurt Naussany is not affiliated with Naussany Investments and Private Lending and has not been with the company since 2015. On May 25, Commercial Appeal received an email from an address linked to: Kurt Naussany. This email was written on: Spanish and claimed its author was “Nigeria’s Yahoo Ring Leader” and responsible for the Graceland scam.

Many other media outlets, including The New York Times and The Daily Memphian, received similar letters; Each is written in different languages and with varying details about the Graceland case.

Many of those aliases and email addresses were traced back to Findley, court documents say. Court records also show a history of fraud involving Findley. The defendant has been accused before Falsifying social security numbers to obtain thousands of dollars in loans Between May 2002 and October 2004.

Findley was arrested in California in March 2006 and convicted of fraud and embezzlement charges. In October 2006, he was sentenced to 20 months in prison by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma for bank fraud. His five-year probation order, effective June 2, 2008, was revoked following a conviction for forging documents in Oklahoma, according to court records.

Neil Strebig is a journalist for The Commercial Appeal. He can be reached at: [email protected]901-426-0679 or via X/Twitter: @neilStrebig.

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