US woman gets jail sentence for selling Joe Biden’s daughter’s diary to conservative group
- Aimee Harris was paid US$20,000 by Project Veritas, which is known for hidden camera stings that have embarrassed news outlets, labour groups and Democrats
- She had first tried unsuccessfully to sell Ashley Biden’s belongings to Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign
A Florida mother was sentenced on Tuesday to a month in prison and three months of home confinement for stealing and selling US President Joe Biden’s daughter’s 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’s actions “despicable.”
Harris pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge in August 2022, admitting that she received US$20,000 of the US$40,000 that was paid by Project Veritas for personal items belonging to the president’s daughter, Ashley Biden.
Project Veritas, founded in 2010, identifies itself as a news organisation. It is best known for conducting hidden camera stings that have embarrassed news outlets, labour organisations and Democratic politicians.
A tearful Harris apologised for enabling Ashley Biden’s private writings to be sold after she found the diary and other items at a friend’s 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.