Woman who stole and sold Ashley Biden diary sentenced to month in jail and home detention

• A Florida woman who stole and then sold a diary and other items belonging to Ashley Biden — the daughter of President Joe Biden — to a right-wing media group weeks before the 2020 election was sentenced to a month in federal jail and three months of home detention.
• Aimee Harris, 41, also was ordered to forfeit $20,000 and to serve three years of probation at her sentencing in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
• The provocative right-wing group Project Veritas later paid Harris and her co-defendant Robert Kurlander $20,000 apiece for the items, according to court records.

A Florida woman who stole and then sold a diary and other items belonging to Ashley Biden — the daughter of President Joe Biden — to a right-wing media group weeks before the 2020 election was sentenced Tuesday to one month in federal jail and three months of home detention.

Aimee Harris, 41, also was ordered to forfeit $20,000 and to serve three years of probation at her sentencing in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, where a lawyer for Ashley Biden was in the audience.

Before Harris was sentenced, assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Sobelman told Judge Laura Taylor Swain that Harris had shown a "pattern of disrespect for the law and the justice system," and was motivated to steal Ashley Biden's property "to make as much money as she could," and to harm President Biden politically, The Associated Press reported.

"She wanted to damage Ms. Biden's father," Sobelman said, the AP reported.

Prosecutors had asked that Harris be sentenced to between four to 10 months in jail, as recommended by federal sentencing guidelines.

The Palm Beach resident, whose sentencing was postponed about a dozen times at her request, in turn asked Swain to sentence her to probation,