Posted on 04/03/2024 6:53:24 PM PDT by RandFan
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is seeking prison time for Aimee Harris, the woman who stole the diary of the president’s daughter, Ashley Biden, and sold it to conservative media site Project Veritas for tens of thousands of dollars before the 2020 presidential election.
According to the DOJ, Harris was temporarily staying at the Delray Beach, Fla., residence of Ashley Biden in September 2020 when she stole the diary “containing highly personal entries” as well as tax records, a cellphone and family photographs. Harris enlisted defandant Robert Kurlander to assist her in selling the collected material.
Project Veritas, based in New York, paid Harris and Kurlander $20,000 each for the diary and other materials the pair returned to Florida to obtain. Project Veritas is a controversial media outlet known for sting operations, sending its staffers undercover to record sources and capture what they say is the true story behind the headlines.
In November, the DOJ raided two locations tied to Project Veritas and the organization’s founder, James O’Keefe.
Project Veritas never published the diary, but a different website did. O’Keefe, who said he received the diary from tipsters who found it abandoned in a hotel room, said he did not publish it because he could not verify its authenticity.
In a Tuesday letter to Judge Laura Swain, federal prosecutors requested that the court impose a sentence of four months to 10 months of imprisonment for Harris, followed by three years of supervised release. Prosecutors had previously asked for six months of home confinement, followed by three years of supervised release.
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Ashley Biden diary
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The Pentagon Papers was a confidential summary of our involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1968. While Nixon was treated as the bad guy for his “dirty tricks” trying to prevent its release, he was not president during that time period. He tried to keep the summary under wraps as it did not paint a good picture of the USA’s recent military efforts (under LBJ). I guess it may have been tough on Eisenhower (with Nixon as V.P.) before that, but I don’t know.
DoI - Dept of INjustice.
Even though the "crime" took place in Delray Beach, Florida, the supposed sale took place in Mamaroneck, New York, which is why the infamous SDNY is prosecuting the case.
Pleas Follow Filing of Criminal Information Alleging Defendants Stole Property Belonging to Immediate Family Member of a Then-Former Government Official-PJDamian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michael J. Driscoll, Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that AIMEE HARRIS and ROBERT KURLANDER pled guilty to conspiracy to commit interstate transportation of stolen property involving the theft of personal belongings of an immediate family member of a then-former government official who was a candidate for national political office. HARRIS and KURLANDER pled guilty today before United States Magistrate Judge Sarah L. Cave and will be sentenced by Chief United States District Judge Laura Taylor Swain.
U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said: “Harris and Kurlander stole personal property from an immediate family member of a candidate for national political office. They sold the property to an organization in New York for $40,000 and even returned to take more of the victim’s property when asked to do so. Harris and Kurlander sought to profit from their theft of another person’s personal property, and they now stand convicted of a federal felony as a result.”
FBI Assistant Director Michael J. Driscoll said: “As they've admitted with today’s pleas, the defendants conspired to steal an individual’s personal property, which they subsequently sold to a third party and delivered across state lines. As a consequence of their actions, they now face punishment in the federal criminal justice system for their crimes. I’d like to thank the Public Corruption Units at both the FBI’s New York Office and the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York for their dedicated effort in this case.”
According to the Information and statements made in court:
In or about September 2020, HARRIS and KURLANDER conspired to steal, transport across state lines, and sell personal property that belonged to an individual (the “Victim”) whom HARRIS and KURLANDER knew was an immediate family member of a then-former government official who was a candidate for national political office. The Victim had stored the property, including a handwritten journal containing highly personal entries, tax records, a digital storage card containing private family photographs, and a cellphone, among other things, in a private residence in Delray Beach, Florida, at which HARRIS was temporarily residing. After HARRIS stole the property, she enlisted KURLANDER to help her facilitate its sale. HARRIS and KURLANDER then made contact with an employee of an organization based in Mamaroneck, New York (the “Organization”), who instructed them to use an encrypted application to communicate with the Organization and requested photographs of the Victim’s property. After receiving the photographs, the Organization offered to pay for HARRIS and KURLANDER’s transportation of the property from Florida to New York City. HARRIS and KURLANDER subsequently traveled to New York City with the Victim’s property at the Organization’s expense and met with employees of the Organization. During that meeting, HARRIS described the circumstances of how she had obtained the Victim’s property, provided the property to the Organization, and disclosed that the Victim had stored additional property in the residence where HARRIS continued to have access. After the meeting, and at the Organization’s request, HARRIS and KURLANDER returned to Florida to obtain more of the Victim’s property in order to provide it to the Organization. They later met with an Organization employee in Florida and gave that employee more of the Victim’s stolen property, believing that the Organization would transport or cause the transport of the stolen property from Florida to the Organization’s offices in New York, which the Organization subsequently did. The Organization subsequently paid HARRIS and KURLANDER each $20,000 for the stolen property.
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AIMEE HARRIS, 40, of Palm Beach, Florida, and ROBERT KURLANDER, 58, of Jupiter, Florida, each pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit interstate transportation of stolen property, which carries a maximum sentence of 5 years in prison.
The maximum potential sentence in this case is prescribed by Congress and is provided here for informational purposes only, as any sentencing of the defendants will be determined by the judge.
Under the terms of their plea agreements, HARRIS and KURLANDER each agreed to forfeit $20,000, and KURLANDER agreed to cooperate with the Government.
Mr. Williams praised the outstanding investigative work of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The prosecution of this case is being handled by the Office’s Public Corruption Unit. Assistant United States Attorneys Jacqueline C. Kelly, Robert B. Sobelman, and Mitzi S. Steiner are in charge of the prosecution.
Under the tender “mercies” of no doubt lying federal agents and prosecutors threatening them. Because they did not steal these items— Ashley intentionally left them (no girl diary writer would forget them- this was a cry for help sort of like the secret messages sent from prison slave chinese laborers left inside products sent to the US- surreptiously crying for help. slavery.
They intimidated them to plea out and their crap attorneys agreed- because there is no proof they stole them, without the coerced plead out... like a forced confession and inadmissable.
A Conservative pac should make ads about pedojoe showering with his daughter. Let’s see how that plays with the precious “suburban women” base.
When does Biden get charged for incest and being a pedophile?
Yes no doubt they threatened them with 20 years etc.
I agree the whole system is rotten isn’t it the way they can get these pleas
If BiteME were a Republican this “diary” would have been leaked all over the place many years ago.
She left the diary under the matress at a drug rehab center. When she left there, she forgot it. Stolen? Hardly.
How is this family still in the white house
“Obscure/rarely used but on the books.”
Dims have a lot of lawyers...
Biden is known for walking around nude in the VP residence during the Obama years. He made things very uncomfortable for female staffers and female security.
One can imagine this is how Biden lived with his children, mostly walking around naked, probably engaging in sexual activities in front of them with more than their mother.
That type of open behavior in front of children can be very damaging.
No, it’s the country our ancestors were living in.
250 years ago.
It wasn’t theft, Bidens daughter was renting this place and left it there abd didn’t come back for it. Technically it was the property of the home owner. Perhaps it was the home owner who tried to sell it to Preject Veritas and the selling of it is a crime?
They do and very wealthy ones I suspect.
What do they have in common with the ordinary person ?
Total joke. I wish their voters woke up.
Many will vote for Trump anyway. Interesting paradox.
It EXPOSED Biden as a PEDOPHILE!
He said the grandchildren jump into bed with them in THE WHITE HOUSE!! His grandchildren are in their 20’s and 30’s except for Hunter’s little boy and girl that has NEVER been to the White House! he said GRANDCHILDREN, NOT GRANDCHILD!
Garland is PURE EVIL!!
Ashley was a DRUG ADDICT ALSO and left the diary in a DETOX CENTER!
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