{"id":25912,"date":"2024-04-10T03:57:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T08:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=25912"},"modified":"2024-04-10T03:57:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T08:57:14","slug":"florida-woman-is-sentenced-to-a-month-in-jail-for-selling-bidens-daughters-diary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=25912","title":{"rendered":"Florida woman is sentenced to a month in jail for selling Biden’s daughter’s diary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A Florida woman was sentenced Tuesday to a month in prison and three months of home confinement for stealing and selling President Joe Biden\u2019s daughter\u2019s diary<\/a> four years ago to the conservative group Project Veritas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aimee Harris was sentenced in Manhattan federal court by Judge Laura Taylor Swain, who called the Palm Beach, Florida, woman\u2019s actions \u201cdespicable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harris pleaded guilty<\/a> 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\u2019s daughter Ashley Biden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project Veritas, founded in 2010<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A tearful Harris apologized for enabling Ashley Biden\u2019s private writings to be sold after she found the diary and other items at a friend\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI do not believe I am above the law,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m a survivor of long-term domestic abuse and sexual trauma,\u201d she told the judge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a lawyer for Ashley Biden observing from the courtroom\u2019s spectator section, Harris apologized to the president\u2019s daughter, saying she regrets making her childhood and life public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In announcing the sentence, Swain noted that Harris and a co-defendant, Robert Kurlander, of nearby Jupiter, Florida, had first tried unsuccessfully to sell Ashley Biden\u2019s belongings to then-President Donald Trump\u2019s 2020 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judge said that Harris, besides being motivated by greed, had hoped to impact the nation\u2019s political landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kurlander, who has not yet been sentenced, and Harris, had each pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transport stolen property across state lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Defense attorney Anthony Cecutti urged no prison time, citing his client\u2019s traumatic life and her efforts to care for her children while recovering from abuse and violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe carries the shame and stigma of her actions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Sobelman urged a prison sentence, saying Harris had exhibited a \u201cpattern of disrespect for the law and the justice system.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMs. Harris is not the victim in this case,\u201d Sobelman said. \u201cMs. Biden is the victim in this case.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said Harris in the summer of 2020 had stolen Ashley Biden\u2019s diary, a digital storage card, books, clothing, luggage and \u201ceverything she could get her hands on\u201d in the hopes she \u201ccould make as much money as she could.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe wanted to damage Ms. Biden\u2019s father,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harris was told to report to prison in July. As she left the courthouse, she declined to speak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lawyer for Ashley Biden also declined to comment, though he submitted a letter to the judge on his client\u2019s behalf a day earlier that was not immediately put in the court record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Florida woman was sentenced Tuesday to a month in prison and three months of home confinement for stealing and selling President Joe Biden\u2019s daughter\u2019s 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\u2019s actions \u201cdespicable.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[27765,27766,1437,5975,5585,1305],"class_list":["post-25912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-biden-daughter","tag-diary","tag-florida","tag-sale","tag-theft","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25914,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25912\/revisions\/25914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}