Along with Robert Kurlander, who assisted her in selling the journal, the 41-year-old was also prosecuted.
According to an article in the Independent, a lady from Florida, United States, was given a one-month prison sentence for stealing US President Joe Biden’s daughter’s journal and selling it to a conservative advocacy group. The 41-year-old will serve three months in home detention and go to jail, according to a US district judge’s decision.
In 2020, Harris broke into a friend’s Florida home and took Ashley Biden’s journal and other personal items. They had been stored at home for safekeeping by the President’s daughter. Following that, Harris took a $20,000 payment for the journal’s sale from the far-right group Project Veritas. She pled guilty in 2022 to a charge of planning to move stolen items across states.
Harris skipped a lot of her sentencing hearings after entering her plea. She apologized before the court on Tuesday and claimed she was preoccupied with taking care of her two kids. I believe that I am not above the law. I’m a victim of both sexual trauma and long-term domestic violence,” she remarked.
In 2020, Harris broke into a friend’s Florida home and took items belonging to Ashley Biden, including her journal. They were at home being stored safely by the President’s daughter. After selling the diary, Harris later took a $20,000 payment from the far-right group Project Veritas. She pled guilty in 2022 to a charge of arranging the interstate transfer of stolen property.
After her plea, Harris skipped many sentencing hearings. She apologized to the court on Tuesday and claimed to have been preoccupied with her two kids. In my opinion, I am not above the law. I’m a long-term survivor of sexual trauma and domestic violence,” she declared.
Along with Robert Kurlander, who assisted her in selling the journal, the 41-year-old was also prosecuted. Initially, a representative of Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign tried to mediate a resolution between the two. The spokesperson did urge them to turn over the journal and other documents to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), nevertheless, when the campaign withdrew. They later sold it to Veritas Project.
FBI agents raided the homes of Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe and two associates as part of their probe into the claims. In this instance, Mr. O’Keefe and Project Veritas are not facing any charges. The diaries, which purportedly detailed Ms. Biden’s struggle toward recovery from drug misuse, were suppressed by Project Veritas. The BBC reports that the documents were released with some minor redactions by another publication. Later, Project Veritas turned the diaries on to law enforcement officers.
“Stealing personal belongings of a candidate’s family member, and selling them to an organization to exploit them for political gain, was wrong and illegal no matter the political agenda,” the attorneys stated in the sentencing brief.
