A Florida woman, Aimee Harris, has been sentenced to one month in prison and three months of home confinement in the United States for stealing and selling President Joe Biden’s daughter, Ashley Biden’s, diary. She was charged with selling the journal to the conservative organization Project Veritas four years ago. Laura Taylor Swain, a Manhattan federal court judge, branded Harris’ actions as “despicable.”
Who is Aimee Harris?
Aimee lives in Florida and discovered Ashley Biden’s diary, a digital storage card, books, clothing, baggage, and “everything she could get her hands on” in an attempt to profit. She discovered them at a friend’s Delray Beach, Florida, home in 2020. Biden’s daughter believed her possessions were safely stored there following a brief vacation in the spring of 2020.
Harris apologized for selling Ashley Biden’s private writings. “I do not believe I am above the law, Harris said after a prosecutor pressed for a prison term based on her repeated failure to attend sentencing hearings, claiming she was preoccupied with caring for her two children, aged 8 and 6.
“I’m a survivor of long-term domestic abuse and sexual trauma,” she told the judge.
Harris apologized to the president’s daughter and expressed regret for making her personal life public
With Ashley Biden’s lawyer present in court, Harris apologized to the president’s daughter and expressed regret for making her personal life public. She is required to report to prison in July.
In August 2022, Harris pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge, saying she took $20,000 out of the $40,000 paid by Project Veritas for Ashley Biden’s private possessions. She and a co-defendant, Robert Kurlander of neighboring Jupiter, Florida, sought to sell Ashley Biden’s things to then-President Donald Trump‘s 2020 presidential campaign.
Assistant US Attorney Robert Sobelman advocated for a jail term, claiming that Aimee “wanted to damage Ms. Biden’s father” and did this for profit.
What is Project Veritas?
Founded in 2010, Project Veritas touts itself as a reporting company and is well-known for its undercover investigations that have embarrassed news outlets, labor organizations, and Democratic politicians.