Camila Francisco
The Department of Justice is pushing for the incarceration of Aimee Harris, the individual who pilfered the diary of Ashley Biden, the daughter of the President, and peddled it to the conservative media outlet Project Veritas ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
As per the DOJ, Harris, temporarily residing at Ashley Biden’s Delray Beach, Fla., residence in September 2020, made off with the diary, described as containing deeply personal entries, along with tax documents, a cellphone, and family pictures. Harris enlisted the help of Robert Kurlander to facilitate the sale of the stolen items.
New York-based Project Veritas forked out $20,000 each to Harris and Kurlander for the diary and other pilfered materials, which the duo retrieved from Florida.
Project Veritas is known for its controversial practices, including sting operations aimed at revealing what it deems as the truth behind mainstream narratives.
In November, the DOJ conducted raids on two locations linked to Project Veritas and its founder, James O’Keefe.
Although Project Veritas never released the diary, it surfaced on another website. O’Keefe claimed to have received it from informants who found it abandoned in a hotel room. He refrained from publishing it due to his inability to verify its authenticity.
In a recent letter to Judge Laura Swain, federal prosecutors requested a sentence ranging from four to ten months of imprisonment for Harris, followed by three years of supervised release.
Previously, prosecutors had suggested six months of home confinement followed by three years of supervision.
The prosecutors highlighted Harris’s tendency to offer excuses later revealed as false, such as claiming difficulty in finding childcare, despite her shared custody arrangement with the children’s father, who was available during the times she was summoned to court.
Prosecutors also expressed frustration over Harris’s failure to obtain a valid ID, necessary for travel, and her inability to produce medical records when claiming illness.
Both Harris and Kurlander pleaded guilty to conspiring to transport stolen property across state lines from a close relative of a former government official running for national office.
