A Florida mother was sentenced Tuesday to a month in prison and three months of home confinement for stealing and selling President Joe Biden’s daughter’s diary four years ago to the conservative group Project Veritas.
Aimee Harris was sentenced in Manhattan federal court by Judge Laura Taylor Swain, who called the Palm Beach, Florida, woman’s actions “despicable.”
Harris pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge in August 2022, admitting that she received $20,000 of the $40,000 that was paid by Project Veritas for personal items belonging to the president’s daughter, Ashley Biden.
Project Veritas, founded in 2010, identifies itself as a news organization. It is best known for conducting hidden camera stings that have embarrassed news outlets, labor organizations and Democratic politicians.
A tearful Harris apologized for enabling Ashley Biden’s private writings to be sold after she found the diary and other items at a friend’s Delray Beach, Florida, home in 2020, where prosecutors said Ashley Biden believed her items were safely stored after she temporarily stayed there in spring 2020.
I do not believe I am above the law,” Harris said after a prosecutor urged a prison sentence following her failure to appear at numerous sentencing dates on the grounds that she was consumed with caring for her two children, ages 8 and 6.
He said Harris in the summer of 2020 had stolen Ashley Biden’s diary, a digital storage card, books, clothing, luggage and “everything she could get her hands on” in the hopes she “could make as much money as she could.”
“She wanted to damage Ms. Biden’s father,” he said.
Harris was told to report to prison in July. As she left the courthouse, she declined to speak.
The lawyer for Ashley Biden also declined to comment, though he submitted a letter to the judge on his client’s behalf a day earlier that was not immediately put in the court record.
What crime did she commit for finding something left behind by someone else at a rehab?
@ViperAlexa3wks3W
She stole a diary, illegally sold it, lied to law authorities and was in contempt of court. Other than that she was completely innocent.
@SolemnGranolaRepublican3wks3W
Obviously then, Joe Biden was totally innocent of sexually abusing his daughter, voyeurizing and touching her naked in the shower while engaging in exhibitionism with her.
What is the real crime that should be prosecuted here?
Sexual abuse of a child which most states have removed any statutes of limitations from.
FJB and anyone who defends him.
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@SnipeRayRepublican3wks3W
I thought this diary ‘didn’t exist.’
I remember with fake news called it Russian propaganda oh it turns out it was real like everything you guys lie to us about
@SnipeRayRepublican3wks3W
So it’s true that Joe Biden took an inappropriate shower with his daughter? Inappropriate enough that she wrote about it decades later?
@RepublicLunaRepublican3wks3W
Except she didn’t steal it. Another Biden cover up
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