Thief who stole diary belonging to Joe Biden’s daughter Ashley is jailed

A Florida woman who stole the journal of President Joe Biden’s daughter andsold it to a conservative advocacy group will face jail time and home detention, a US district judge ruled on Tuesday.

Harris stole Ashley Biden’s journal, among other possessions, from a friend’s home in Florida in 2020. The president’s daughter had kept them in the home for safekeeping.Harris later received $20,000 from Project Veritas, a far-right-wing group, in exchange for the journal.

She will now face one month behind bars and another three months of home detention. The sentence comes after Harris pled guilty to a conspiracy charge in August 2022.

“I do not believe I am above the law,” Harris said in court ahead of her sentencing, per Politico.

Harris was charged alongside Robert Kurlander, whom she enlisted to help sell the journal. The pair initially tried to broker a deal with a representative from Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign. But the campaign backed out, and the same representative said they should turn over the journal and other items to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

That’s when they turned to Project Veritas. The group identifies itself as a news organisation and is best known for using hidden cameras to discredit mainstream media organisations and progressive groups. They never published the diary, and it was later leaked to another media organisation.

Kurlander, who also made $20,000 from the sale, pled guilty to his charges and has since cooperated with prosecutors.

The FBI has since executed search warrants at the homes of two Project Veritas ex-employees, as well as the group’s founder, James O’Keefe, as part of the long-running investigation.

In a statement to The Independent, Project Veritas maintained